13th Annual BMA-Pittsburgh Education Series
Take a Look in the Mirror

BMA-Pittsburgh challenges you to review your personal business skills:
Are you a leader?
Can you run an effective meeting?
What kind of first impression do you make?
Do you communicate with clarity and strength?

Four nights. Four experts. One sure-fire way to become a more successful communicator.

April 8th

Developing the Leader Within: Do you know what it takes to steer a project? Get the best of your team? Do you know what motivates you or others? You’ll be profiling your own leadership style and how to maximize your strengths and others in your team. This hands-on seminar will give you the tools you need to how to create shared leadership for projects by understanding people’s natural strengths and how they best work together, on budget and on message. People Are The Key.

How To Build Effective Leadership and Teams

The key to organizational success is people and their ability to understand, relate and communicate with each other. Yet teams and work groups are made up of diverse people that can change in composition, have very different styles, but still are under a high demand for accountability and success. This hands on workshop will not only show you what is an effective, highly productive team, but more importantly will provide you the tools on how to:

Profile your core personality type
Be able to identify the strengths and Achilles heel of other personality types
Recognize and understand what “types” make up your team
Create shared leadership in your team
Quickly build team cohesiveness

Regardless if you’re the team manager or member, a creative or analytical type, or a leader or follower…you will learn not only how to maximize your strengths, but how to motivate and effectively work with others.

Speakers: InterLINK Management Consulting executives Dr. Susan Atkinson and Amy Skolen

April 15th

Leading a Killer Brainstorming Session: What is the secret behind creative idea generation? Understand how to get the most creative ideas from your group and lead a session that produces results. Learn new techniques such as brain writing, mind mapping, forced fit and ABC brainstorming.

Speaker: Diane M. Harris, D.M. Harris Associates and Qualitative Research Consultants Association

April 22nd

Harnessing the Voice of a Pro: What is your voiceprint? Learn about different vocal styles and their impact on others, and improve your own business communication skills. Participants will:

Understand the key components of speech and voice
Identify different vocal styles including their impact on others
Know how cultural differences impact our speech
Improve business communication skills with effective, easy tips
Become aware of their own vocal styles
Evaluate their vocal strengths and weakness
Learn how to convey messages through their voice

Turn your voice into the sound of business.

Speaker: Lynda Waltner Stucky, veteran speech pathologist, voice coach and owner of ClearlySpeaking

April 29th

Pulling it All Together: Arm yourself with the skills to deliver a message with confidence and a business-promoting impact. This lesson will teach you to go beyond PowerPoint and will help you make your presentation sing.

Speaker: Jan Ferri-Reed, Ph.D., sales training consultant and president of KEYGroup

Program Details & Speakers

Place:		Hosted by Blattner Brunner 11 Stanwix Street (the old Westinghouse Building) 5th Floor
Time:		5:30 p.m. registration and networking 6:00 — 7:30 p.m. program
Fees
Individuals		$100 package rate (all four sessions) for BMA Members* $160 package rate (all four sessions) for non-members* $60 package rate (all four sessions) for students*
Company		$200 package rate for up to three people from BMA member companies, $20 per additional $320 package rate for up to three people from non-member companies, $40 per additional

*Call 412-281-5656 for individual session fees

Mail this completed registration form, with payment
(made out to BMA-Pittsburgh), to:
Michelle Merlo
Skutski & Oltmanns
100 First Avenue
Suite 700
Pittsburgh, PA 15222.

Questions? Call Michelle at 412-281-5656 or e-mail her at mmerlo@skutski.com.

Registration deadline: April 2, 2004