2012 Management Update Conference Speakers and Topics
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012
Howard Fletcher - Strategies for a Volatile and Unpredictable EconomyHoward Fletcher will discuss the economy and the reasons why economic growth will be generally slow for the rest of this decade. He explains in layman's terms the unique nature of this recession and why the conflicting priorities confronting policy makers pose a significant impediment to the resumption of stable long-term growth. He blends historical data, current economic stratistics and common sense to present a business oriented look at the future without the spin found in the general media. Attendees will take away an understanding of:
HOWARD FLETCHER is a corporate finance expert who helps business owners and executives align business strategy with economic and geopolitical realities. Howard has been CEO of a $1 billion public company and several private companies. He has also been a senior executive of a Fortune 100 corporation and non-executive director of numerous for-profit and not-for-profit companies as well as a number of offshore companies. Howard has lived, worked and traveled extensively overseas and he is a serious student of geopolitics and practical economics. He is a much sought-after speaker on the subject of the economic outlook and what businesses should do today to position for future growth. Howard has a Masters Degree in International Management and a Bachelors Degree in Finance, both from the University of Southern California. He is also a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Management Program. He is a Professor Finance and Director of the Student Professional Development at California State University, Long Beach.
Lindsay Strand - Understanding Your Communication Style
Lindsay explains the basic communication styles, how to identify the learning styles of others and how to adjust your communications to be most persuasive for your intended audience. Attendees will have the opportunity to take the DiSC profile in advance, an effective tool for discovering your preferred communication style. DiSC profile assessment instructions will be sent to attendees following registration.
LINDSAY STRAND is President of Lindsay Strand Associates, Inc., the strategic communications consulting firm which she founded. Strand has traveled internationally on behalf of clients and assists companies throughout the United States to develop communications strategies and provide strategic communications counsel for organizations and industries needing both proactive and reactive communications. She is a nationally established executive speech coach, working with individuals preparing for mission critical announcements such as analyst meetings, mergers, acquisitions, new product announcements, lay-offs and FDA panel reviews. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management Executive Development Center and leads seminars and training programs throughout the United States for employees at all levels of organizations. Ms. Strand has directed media relations efforts for major special events such as the Minnesota Super Bowl Task Force where she coordinated planning and publicity for Super Bowl XXVI. She has also provided onsite media relations assistance to the White House for presidential visits. Ms. Strand holds a Masters Degree in Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis.
Art Turock, Elite Performance Provocateur - Competent is Not an Option
Stars aren't born; rather they are made by engaging in years of deliberate practice. This finding summarizes decades of elite performance research with athletes, performing artists, salespeople and managers. Unfortunately, most businesses have adopted unquestioned talent development practices that reliably produce competent performance, but derail deliberate practice and any possibility of developing consummate professionals. The pivotal questions for anyone aspiring to great perforamnce are....What are the elements of deliberate practice? How can they be orchestrated abundantly in my organization/team?
Competent is Not an Option offers a counter-intuitive solution by translating seemingly impossible-to-adapt talent development practices from the field of sports, where the elite performance research gets applied meticulously. Art Turock shares with you the talent development practices from organizations like USC Football/Pete Carroll Win-Forever philosphy, military special operations, Baldridge award winners like Pal's Sudden Service, GE, and Proctor & Gamble.
ART TUROCK helps businesses translate elite performance research and the talent development practices of sports teams for developing superior capabilities as a competitive advantage. His low cost, high impact methods are extremely relevant for hunker down times. Art's ideas have appeared in Success, USA Today, Fortune, The One-Minute Manager series, Association Management, Bloomberg News, and CNN. Since 1986, Turock has been a valued resource to over 120 Fortune 500 companies, as well as ASAE and Young Presidents' Organization.
CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS - 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Understanding Your Communication Style with DiSC - Lindsay Strand
Through the use of role playing and small group activities, Lindsay demonstrates how DiSC styles can impact the credibility of communications. Recognize the clues that help you to understand the preferred communication style of others in order to deliver more credible, impactful communications.
Developing Good Managers into Great Leaders - Art TurockTo build bench strength, management development must be a core competence not a crisis response. The management team needs to move from being competent to being elite performers. Competent managers orchestrate planning and directing work so it gets done efficiently and effectively. Elite managers not only get results, but simultaneously improve people's capabilities so they can produce better results in the future. They are superb coaches not only in one-on-one interactions, but in designing a work process so their first-level, mid-level and senior managers are continuously practicing to raise their skill proficiency.
Social Networking and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your Precision Machining Shop - Miles FreeOutsmarting Google is the key to getting attention in today's social media, online, web world of constant change. PMPA's blogger Miles Free will walk through the online tools that he uses to create PMPA's online presence and create visibility for PMPA in topical areas of importance. With over 60 topics that are ranked Page One on Google, Miles will show you how to create increased visibility for your firm's specialties using social media and also how to avoid destroying your web presence with those tempting but ill considered "Get SEO Quick Schemes" that somehow end up in our email inbox every morning. Don't decide on SEO until you've attended this Session!. All attendees to recieve a copy of Evan Bailyn's book "Outsmarting Google."
CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS - 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Communicating with Confidence and Credibility- Lindsay Strand
Learn valuable tips to take your communication skills to the next level. Lindsay discusses what makes a persuasive leader, how to lead an audience to your goals and how to build on your own natural style to present with confidence and professional credibility.
Developing Good Managers into Great Leaders - Art TurockRepeat Session
Social Networking and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your Precision Machining Shop - Miles FreeRepeat Session
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2012
David Rutherford, Former U.S. Navy SEAL - SEAL Team Mission PlanningIn this powerful motivational presentation, David introduces his Froglogic Concept to explain the critical importance of living a Team Life in order to achieve total mission success, whether it be in the most challenging environments in the world or in your day-to-day business operations.
DAVID B. RUTHERFORD served 8 years in the Navy as a SEAL Trainee, Medic, Operator, and Instructor. During his final two years as an instructor he discovered his passion for teaching. With the help of several mentors, David discovered his unique ability to motivate students with his passionate delivery and energetic style. After his SEAL career, David began a new chapter in his life as an International Training Specialist working for one of the largest Private Security companies in the world.
David recognized the crtical state of our Children’s futures. With worldwide epidemics such as childhood poverty and deminishing literacry rates assualting our kids, he was inspired to create the Froglogic Concept. Within months he was speaking to kids throughout America and Canada. David has motivated thousands of children to begin forging thier self-confidence by commiting to regimented physical exercise, proper nutrition and a “Never Quit” attitude.
It hasn’t taken long for many of the country’s leading companies to discover Froglogic. In challenging times top executives are always looking for the edge. What better way to forge this edge than by exposing your team to the Navy SEAL mindset. David ignites his audiences desire to effectuate change within themselves and within their organization. His “Real World” stories from the SEAL Teams demonstrate the absolute proof that Self-Confidence and a total commitment to living a Team Life guarantee Mission Success in any environment.
Kraig Kramers, Corporate Partners, Inc. - Manager's Top 10 Tools for Financing Businesses
An experienced and seasoned business executive, as well as a nationally-recognized speaker for 20 yeras, Kraig Kramers provides the top ten tools for rapid profit acceleration in your company, including how and when to use these powerful tools while dealing with the real world challenges of cash-flow, capitalization, customers, strategic goals and celebrating your business successes.
KRAIG KRAMERS is president and CEO of Corporate Partners Inc., a leading consulting firm. Kraig has been instrumental in nearly 70 changes of company ownership and has direct CEO experience in the telecommunications, health, outdoor power equipment, insurance, printing, sporting goods, food, and turbine remanufacturing fields. He has served on more than 30 company boards, is an active member of nine boards and has managed the successful acquisition program of a billion-dollar public company and led corporate planning for a Fortune 500 forest products conglomerate.
Kraig is the author of the acclaimed "CEO Tools: The Nuts-n-Bolts of Business for Every Manager's Success." A graduate of Physics from MIT, Kraig also holds an MBA degree from Stanford in finance and marketing.
Dan Sharkey - Negotiating from the Buyer's Perspective: Learn the Strategies Your Customers Employ to Negotiate with You!
In a business transaction there are winners and losers, and of course, no one wants to be on the losing end. Contracts are often the decisive factor in whether a company wins or loses with its customers on critical issues such as pricing, raw material costs, pre-production investment and volume fluctuations. To ensure you're negotiating from a position of strength, learn the strategies that customers use to train their buyers. Before you work your next deal, find out what your customer has planned for you, and how to repond.
DAN SHARKEY is an attorney with the law firm Brooks, Wilkins, Sharkey & Turco. Dan concentrates his practice in commercial, contract, and environmental litigation. He has significant experience in manufacturing supply chains, construction, class actions, franchises and dealerships, insurance coverage, intellectual property, real estate, securities, creditors’ rights, student loan litigation, and sales representative matters. He has tried more than 50 cases in U.S. District, Bankruptcy, Military, and State courts. Before becoming a founding member of Brooks Wilkins Sharkey & Turco, he was a shareholder at Butzel Long in Detroit and Captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized), where he served as Trial Counsel and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney. Dan has a J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law and a B.B.A. frm the University of Notre Dame.
CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS - 2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Forging the SEAL Mindset: Transform Your Team into Elite Performers - David Rutherford
A SEAL's mindset and self-confidence are forged by what many consider the most difficult military training in the world. Discover how this mindset works in the "real world" and how to emplower your operators to be top producers.
The CEO's Tool Kit - Kraig KramersMany CEO's have a "toolkit" of knowledge and experience gleaned over time. Learn how to turn these tools into action and profit for your company, in addition to improving your own personal abilities, as well.
Ask the Attorney....- Dan SharkeySpend an hour with Attorney Dan Sharkey in this highly interactive format, where we'll focus on customer contracts and other legal issues surrounding the manufacturing supply chain. Bring your questions!
CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS - 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Forging the SEAL Mindset: Transform Your Team into Elite Performers - David Rutherford
Repeat Session
The CEO's Tool Kit - Kraig KramersRepeat Session
Ask the Attorney....- Dan SharkeyRepeat Session
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2012
John Guzik and Omar Nashashibi, The Franklin Partnership - What Does Your "Silent Partner" (aka the Federal Government) Have Planned for You in 2012?Tax policy, health care, international trade, regulation, NLRB, and the list goes on and on…PMPA’s retained lobbyist, The Franklin Partnership, will provide a Washington insiders’ view of what you can expect to see from our Federal Government in 2012 as small business leaders. In addition to an informative Capitol Hill update, you’ll receive the latest trend data for the upcoming election cycle, with projections on who will be the “winners” and “losers” in 2012.
THE FRANKLIN PARTNERSHIP: Omar Nashashibi and John Guzik are founding partners in the D.C. based lobbying firm, The Franklin Partnership. The firm has more than 50 years of combined experience in government relations activities. The Franklin Partnership represents a diverse client list including: health care, municipalities, international trade, manufacturing, defense, small businesses, energy, telecommunications, and more.
Darlene Miller, PMPA 2nd Vice President and President of Permac Industries, Burnsville, MN
is a member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitive ness representing our industry and small business. Darlene highlights the progress of the Council and what initiatives have moved forward that will benefit our industry.