Led by: Kate Elliot

What do you say when you first meet someone?

Craft a powerful first impression! In this interactive session, participants will learn how to confidently and authentically introduce themselves in interviews. We’ll explore strategies to highlight your strengths, tell your story, and set the tone for a successful conversation—all in just a few impactful minutes.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients.

Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
This workshop will be offered in-person. 

Led by: Michele Owen

Every interaction is a chance to build connection.

In this workshop, participants will learn how to sharpen their interpersonal skills by managing tone, decoding body language, showing empathy, and handling feedback with confidence and clarity.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients.

Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time. 

In-person Lunch & Learn

Many leaders report that communication among their team members is strained by unspoken disagreements. This session will explore a dignity and empathy-based approach to help our teams leverage their different perspectives as a way to support and enrich our workplaces and communities. Participants will learn ways to disagree with dignity and break the “cycle of contempt” that prevents teams from coming together productively.

Learning Objectives

1. Gain greater familiarity with the “Dignity Index” as a tool for collaboration.
2. Be able to identify ways to bring greater dignity to the discourse of their organization and community.
3. Practice the application of the dignity and empathy model with real world scenarios.
4. Reflect on the “cycles of contempt” that negatively impact their workplace and community collaborations.

About Our Facilitator

Melinda Messineo, PhD is a professor of Sociology and the Distinguished Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Excellence and Community Engagement at Ball State University. She is a nationally recognized award-winning teacher and workshop facilitator. Her research explores representations of individuals in the media and the impact that all media forms have on our understanding of people different from ourselves.

Led by: Michele Owen

Your first impression over email can be lasting.

Understand the basics of email etiquette and learn helpful to tips to manage the clutter in your email account so you have more time and less missed messages.

This session is in-person at the Recovery Cafe. 

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

In-Person 3 Hour Session

Learning Objectives

Participants will leave with: 

1. 1. A reset button for their daily mindset—to shift from grind to gain without sacrificing performance.
   2. A personal playbook for refueling that doesn’t require a two-week vacation or quitting your job.
   3. A fresh filter for success that balances achievement with meaning, so you can lead with purpose and results.

Cost: Free for SLA Members. $250 non-member. $200 nonprofits.

Individuals who are either unemployed or connected with an employer who is unable to pay can request scholarships for any of our programs.

About Our Facilitator

Erika Bayh stands at the helm of “The Extraordinary In You,” an organization that provides vibrant partnerships and facilitated experiences designed to ignite and unleash the extraordinary in individuals, teams, and projects. She is a master facilitator, inspirational coach, growth trainer, curriculum designer, and strategic partner with over thirty years of expertise in igniting the personal and professional growth in individuals and organizations. Erika recently left her decades-long stead with the NYC-based Leadership Program, where she was responsible for overseeing the programmatic growth of one of the city’s largest afterschool programs, designed ongoing professional development trainings for staff of the NYC DOE as well as educators around the country, and spearheaded the creation of leadership curricula honored by CASEL, OJJDP, SAMHSA, and more.

Erika is also an adjunct professor, currently instructing students at Ball State University in Indiana on an undergraduate course she created, “An Introduction to Youth Work,” designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the diverse realm of youth work. She is the author of the interactive personal growth journal, “On Wings & Whimsy: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary,” as well as the deck of cards, “52 Ways to Connect,” designed for leaders to strengthen their team time.

In-person Lunch & Learn

Today, we are living in a world where disagreement reigns and people are divided. A chasm is widening between us and them, where everyone picks a side and tries to win at the expense of others. Why is this happening? Too many leaders are taking the low road with others. They do what serves themselves best. They take from others without giving anything back. This workshop will guide you how to avoid the low and middle roads and take the high road in your leadership.

1. Recognize and affirm the value of all people
2. Learn how to develop humble appreciation for yourself
3. Discover how to strengthen your emotional leadership capacity

About Our Facilitator

Casey Ash is a leadership development trainer with 12 years of experience leading team and personal development workshops. She is a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team member and Certified Working Genius Facilitator who uses workshops to help people and teams discover their gifts and reach their potential. She also holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Business from Indiana University. Personal development has been life-changing for her, and she is passionate about sharing this with others.

Read a book. Lead with inspiration.

SLA in partnership with Muncie Public Library is offering a unique quarterly gathering, highlighting important take-aways from inspirational leadership books. At each event, facilitators will share key leadership development lessons from leadership-focused books. This is not a book club, rather a guided discussion around the key takeaways from each book.

Prior reading of the book is not required but we encourage participants to share about what they learned and check-out one of the books from Muncie Public Library. All participants attending will be entered in a raffle to win a digital copy of one of the books discussed.

All sessions are FREE and open to the public thanks to our sponsor, eKeeper. Registration is required.

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