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2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference Discover your individual strengths and develop your leadership capacity

Brought to you by the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute

Conference Program Schedule

11:00–11:40am

12:00–12:30pm

12:40–2:40pm

2:40–3:00pm

3:00–3:50pm

4:00–4:30pm

4:30–5:00pm

Check-in and Lunch Outside of Benton Hall Room 102

Welcome and Keynote Benton Hall Room 102

StrengthsQuest™ Workshop Benton Hall, Garland Hall

Break with Refreshments Outside of Benton Hall Room 102

Leadership Workshop Benton Hall, Garland Hall, Engineering Building

Small Group Reflection Benton Hall, Garland Hall, Engineering Building

Closing Benton Hall Room 102


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Table of Contents

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Welcome

About Our Keynote Speaker

What is StrengthsQuest™?

StrengthsQuest™ Workshops

Leadership Workshops

Building Maps

Notes Space


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Welcome

October 27, 2013

Welcome and thank you for attending the 2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference! This annual

conference provides students unique and valuable opportunities for professional and leadership

development. The conference is named after Diane Perlmutter, a Miami graduate. Ms. Perlmutter

valued her Miami Experience so highly that she established this conference as a way of giving

back to her alma mater.

We hope you enjoy the conference and learn how to apply your top five signature themes to your

classes, involvement pursuits, and within everyday life at Miami University.

Sincerely,

The Perlmutter Leadership Institute Conference Planning Team

Dr. Eric Buller, Director of the Wilks Leadership Institute

Kathy Jicinsky, Assistant Director of the Wilks Leadership Institute

Meghan Morris, Graduate Assistant in the Wilks Leadership Institute

Elizabeth Cochran, Leadership Development Specialist in the Wilks Leadership Institute

Bri Deer, Perlmutter Conference Planning Team Member

Maria Minnie, Perlmutter Conference Planning Team Member

Alex Schachtel, Perlmutter Conference Planning Team Member


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About Our Keynote Speaker

It's Not What You Do, It's Who You Are

Picking a major, landing a first job, building a resume...These activities can be all-

consuming. But underlying these choices is a deeper set of talents, passions and natural

abilities. Find out how your signature strengths can be a compass for understanding who

you really are and where those strengths may take you.

Dr. Anne Harbison is a 1989 Miami graduate and the Founder and Managing Partner of

Leadership & Learning Solutions, a management consulting firm creating transformational

development experiences for leaders across the world. She started her career at Procter &

Gamble in Brand Management, went on to receive her doctorate at Harvard University and then

spent seven years with Gallup's Executive Leadership practice. Anne is passionate about helping

leaders build on their greatest talents to create meaningful, lasting change in their organizations

and communities. She lives with her husband and two children in Minneapolis, MN.


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What is StrengthsQuest™? For years, people have invested in the belief that one must “fix” one’s weaknesses. Strengths-Based

Leadership, a concept created by the research-oriented Gallup Organization, challenges this belief.

StrengthsQuest™ is grounded in the theoretical perspective of Positive Psychology. As highlighted by

Gallup, this perspective focuses on what is positive and normal about people, rather than focusing on their

deficiencies or abnormalities.

Similarly, StrengthsQuest™ Program’s framework is built on two concepts: talents and strengths.

According to Gallup, a great number of talents naturally exist within each individual, and individuals can develop

their talents into strengths by refining their knowledge and skills. A talent becomes a strength when one is able to

provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a given activity. In other words, the StrengthsQuest™ Program is

based on the following six principles of human nature and behavior:

1. You have a group of talents within you.

2. Your greatest talents hold the key to high achievement, success, and progress at levels of personal

excellence.

3. Becoming aware of your talents builds confidence and provides a basis for achievement.

4. Learning how to develop and apply strengths will improve your levels of achievement.

5. Each of your talents can be applied in many areas including relationships, learning, academics, leadership,

service, and careers.

6. As you develop and apply strengths, your achievements will increase and you will experience greater and

more frequent successes.

StrengthsQuest™ is a tool designed to help students identify and understand their top five signature themes

of talent out of 34 different themes. It begins with the Clifton StrengthsFinder™ assessment , which has been taken

by more than 9 million people around the world. After completing the assessment, individuals receive a customized

report that lists their top five signature themes of talent in the order in which they are most dominant. The report

also lists action items and recommendations for how individuals can develop their talents into strengths with the

goal of being successful in all contexts of life--academic, career, and personal.

Discovering and understanding their personal strengths can help students become better leaders, group

members, and citizens. Ultimately, StrengthsQuest™ helps students to answer the questions “Who am I?” and “How

do I best contribute to make this a better world?” As Clifton and Anderson—the developers of StrengthsQuest™--

state, “In a sense, the development and application of strengths generates a feeling that you are fulfilling your

personal destiny.”

Braskamp, L. (2006). The StrengthsQuest™ Guidebook: Introducing Strengths-Based Development and

StrengthsQuest to Higher Education Leaders. Princeton, NJ: The Gallup Organization.

Gallup, Inc. (2010). About. StrengthsQuest™. Retrieved from: http://www.strengthsquest.com/

content/141728/index.aspx

http://www.strengthsquest.com/%20content/141728/index.aspx

http://www.strengthsquest.com/%20content/141728/index.aspx


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StrengthsQuest™ Workshops

Benton Hall and Garland Hall: Note room assignment at check-in

Beginner Strengths Workshop Presenters:

Room Level Presenters

Benton 100 Beginner Eric Buller

Benton 114 Beginner Jessica Gunzburger

Benton 115 Beginner Sarah Allard & Cody Garcia-Pusateri

Benton 204 Beginner Adam Leftin & Buffy Stoll Turton

Benton 206 Beginner Brian Jicinsky & Chanelle White

Intermediate Strengths Workshop Presenters:

Room Level Presenters

Garland 153 Intermediate Anne Harbison

Garland 155 Intermediate Steve Reudisili

Facilitated by staff members of Miami University who have received special training from the

Gallup Organization, the StrengthsQuest™ Institute session will help participants better

understand the results that they received when they took the StrengthsFinder™ assessment

online. Unlike the Leadership Workshop portion of the day in which participants will select the

topic that interest them most, the StrengthsQuest™ workshop is one that all participants will

attend, creating a common vocabulary and base of leadership knowledge for the rest of the day.


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Leadership Workshops

Whale Done! Using Positive Reinforcement to Influence Others Benton Hall Room 115 Cody Garcia-Pusateri, Resident Director/First Year Adviser

Ever wonder how the trainers at Sea World get the world's largest predator to jump through a hoop? Utilizing

concepts from the works of Bolman and Deal, Kouzes and Posner, and from Ken Blanchard's book "Whale Done!",

this presentation will focus on using positive reinforcement strategies to motivate supervisees and peers to

accomplish organizational goals. Individuals will understand organizational models, the importance of investing in

people, and why reframing how you view the members of your organization can yield huge results. While the

people you work with won't be doing backflips, you'll be surprised by what you get out of people when you invest in

them.

Why People Follow Benton Hall Room 114 Jessica Gunzburger, Doctoral Student, Student Affairs in Higher Education Intergroup Dialogues Coordinator

Why do people follow? As aspiring and current leaders we spend a great deal of time working to develop our skills

and knowledge related to leadership, but often neglect to think about what causes other people to follow. Gallup

conducted an extensive study about why people follow, and four key themes emerged. Come to this interactive

session to learn about what makes people follow a leader, and how you can leverage your top 5 themes and

leadership home bases to meet your follower’s needs!

CCL Visual Explorer - Using Imagery in Your Leadership Benton Hall Room 100 Dr. Eric Buller, Director of the Wilks Leadership Institute

Using the Visual Explorer exercise created by the Center for Creative Leadership, we will identify images that

represent your personal visualization of leadership and also talk about how imagery can be used in organizations to

visualize problems or solutions. This is an innovative leadership technique that stimulates more creative thinking in

your teams.

Worthy to follow: Leading From the Inside, Out Benton Hall Room 207 Wilson Okello, Resident Director/First Year Adviser

What does it mean to be authentic? We remember the leaders who invest their full selves into what they do. Using

current literature on leadership development and identity development, I will provide a framework for owning

individual core values as a way to promote and enhance leadership skills.


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Leadership Workshops (continued)

25 Hours Eng. Bldg. Room 162 Allie Engelhart, Marketing Student, Farmer School of Business

Learning what your personal brand is and living it every day is a powerful practice. This workshop will provide an

overview of what it means to find your brand and how to maximize that brand to lead, communicate, and execute to

the best of your ability.

It Starts with ONE Eng. Bldg. Room 266 Jelene Grace, Assistant Director for Academic Advising and Living Learning Communities

Courtney Clark-Hachtel, Graduate Student

It Starts with ONE. An interactive discussion on bystander behavior, everyday situations we encounter and obstacles

that we face. Through the use of video and current events we will provide strategies for overcoming barriers,

becoming an active bystander and taking a stand toward a culture change.

The Five Secrets to Creating Winning Teams Eng. Bldg. Room 270 Carlos Suarez, Student President, The National Society of Leadership & Success (Sigma Alpha Pi)

Teamwork is the spirit that pulls together a group of committed individuals and turns them into a high-functioning

team. Sadly, many leaders sabotage their own team-building efforts without even knowing. In this workshop, you'll

learn the three mistakes leaders make that squash the spirit of teamwork and five new strategies to breathe life,

creativity, and innovation into any team you're a part of.

Building a Strengths-Based Leadership Brand Garland Hall Room 153 Anne Harbison, Founder and Managing Principal of Leadership & Learning Solutions, LLC

We often think of brands as products and packaging, but as a leader you should have a brand that is an authentic

representation of your truest talents and values. Building off your signature strengths, this workshop will allow you

to define the way you want to uniquely lead others based on who you truly are.


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Building Maps

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Building Maps (continued)

Engineering Building/Garland Hall:


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Thank you!

For attending the 2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference

We would like to thank the following people who helped make this year’s conference a success!

Our keynote speaker:

Anne Harbison

Our StrengthsQuest Workshop presenters:

Sarah Allard

Eric Buller

Brian Jicinsky

Cody Garcia-Pusateri

Jessica Gunzburger

Anne Harbison

Adam Leftin

Steve Reudisili

Buffy Stoll Turton

Chanelle White

Our Leadership Workshop presenters:

Eric Buller

Courtney Clark-Hachtel

Allie Engelhart


Jelene Grace

Jessica Gunzburger

Anne Harbison

Wilson Okello

Carlos Suarez

Our small group facilitators:

Sarah Allard

Amy Corron

Elizabeth Cochran

Briana Deer


Jessica Gunzburger

Chelsea Hauser

Caren Kay

Maria Minnie

Alex Schachtel

Josh Schiets

Carlos Suarez

Other contributors:

Diane Perlmutter

Harry T. Wilks

Papa John’s Pizza

LaRosa’s Pizzeria

Insomnia Cookies

Miami University Office of the Registrar


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