2010 Annual NAEOP Conference
Institute Classes

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Monday, July 5, 2010

IC-MO1/EC1 7:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Networking at its Best
Presenter: Bonnie Coffey

NAEOP founder, Louise Henderson Nelson, had a dream for those committed to education through administration and this one woman made that dream a reality. The mission of NAEOP, Providing professional growth opportunities, leadership, and service for employees in education, is one that can be accomplished through the presentation of a day-long workshop on the value and skills of networking. This workshop will provide learning experiences designed to teach, reinforce, make actionable, and measure the growth of networking competencies.

IC-MO2/CO1 7:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

You're A Piece of Work: Celebrate Joy, Passion, and Influence
Presenter: Dr. Steve Sobel

Attending Steve's session will make you feel like the luckiest person and office professional alive! You will be treated to doses of inspiration and "tips" for dealing with life's challenges-including difficult people. Humor will abound as Steve shares stories and insights that are sure to make an impact on you and those you work with. Where not to make mountains out of molehills and truly knowing you have a profound influence on people will be certain outcomes from this experience. Steve will touch your spirit, your funny bone and your wish bone.

IC-MO3/CO2 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mastering the Write Way & Are Your Roots Showing?
Presenter: Nancy Noonan

Mastering the Write Way:
Turning your Business Grammar and Writing into a Masterpiece!

Do you constantly misplace your modifiers? Have no point to your exclamations? Think ellipsis has to do with the moon? In this fun, updating and skill-refreshing seminar, experience how chocolate and game-show games help you take your business writing to the masterpiece level! Participants learn how to considerably shorten their writing time and reduce writers’ block. The top grammar and writing mistakes made in today’s workplace are covered, as well as current writing preferences.

Are Your Roots Showing?
Mastering Excellence through Empowerment

Nancy Noonan’s presentation, Are Your Roots Showing? is funny, yet filled with poignant stories and implemental ideas! It empowers people to be their most masterful, by cultivating their fullest and strongest colors through self-empowerment. This lively, interactive program is built on the premise that in order to flourish in Mastery and be empowered in our lives and work, we must stand firmly rooted in our own colorful authenticity, our own voice and own truth.

IC-MO4/CO3 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Defining the Role of the Office Professional:
As Seen Through the Eyes of Your Administrator
Presenter: Dr. Nancy Biggs

The relationship between the office professional and their supervisor is a critical part of guaranteeing a successful operation in any educational setting. No matter what office you are in; school, administration, higher education or state department, a solid relationship must exist between the administrator and the office professional. Are you a colleague, peer, friend or team mate? What is your relationship with your supervisor? How does this person 'see' you?

Spend the afternoon with office professionals from all areas of education exploring methods and ideas for building a successful and productive professional work environment. Discover the expectations supervisors have of their office professionals. Learn tips and techniques that will assist you in becoming the ideal support to your boss. Join us for the opportunity to renew and revitalize your enthusiasm for building and maintaining an effective relationship with your administrator.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

IC-TO1/EC2 7:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

8 to Great: The World's Most Powerful Positive Attitude Process
Presenter: MK Mueller

Everyone agrees that attitude is everything, but just try to get a group of people to agree on what attitude is! That's where MK Mueller's patented and powerful FGH Formula for Positive Attitude comes in. In her newest presentation, she shares the 8 simple steps for feeling good and staying positive, and shows how to live them, coach them, parent them, and benefit from them at work and at play! In this presentation, participants will learn and practice:

• Get the Picture: Practice defining and visualizing the end result with a fun technique.
• Risk: Learn MK's amazing formula for making the best decision every time.
• Full Responsibility: Learn MK's process for ending blame of others for good.
• Feel All Your Feelings: Learn a powerful method for dealing effectively with strong emotions in self and others.
• Honest Communication: Learn how to stop 3rd party communication and end defensiveness.
• FGH: Forgiveness of the Past: Learn how to forgive self and others and get free from the past.
• FGH: Gratitude for the Present: Learn the daily process for staying positive and grateful in the present moment.
• FGH: Hope for the Future: Learn how to replace needless anxiety and worry with confidence in goals and dreams.

IC-TO2/CO4 7:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Work, Life, and Opportunity Seminar
Presenter: Joe Tomlinson

Joe Tomlinson will share real life situations with the audience that hold them back from exploring and becoming the employee or person they really want to be. Joe’s years of experience in human resources both in public and private practices provide him with insights and experiences to help employees and people see what they can become in the workplace or in their personal lives. Audience participation and generating real work place ideas to meet the needs of customers are integral parts of Joe’s presentations. If you don’t like your current work place or how you view it, then Joe will provide you with useful, creative and fun options to a whole new work life. Joe’s love for coaching in his early career is now used in his current career to help individuals grow and learn with the help of the “FISH” philosophy and its goals. Joe’s “FISH” trainings in Seattle, Washington convinced him that the “FISH” philosophy along with practical applications from his human resource experiences would be a useful seminar tool for audiences of all ages. So if you would like to laugh a little (even at yourself), enjoy some collaboration with fellow workers, develop some useful insights about how you view your work, gain quick and easy ways to change your life at work or even at home, and maybe have a major “BREAKTHROUGH” in the process; then this is the seminar for you.

IC-TO3/CO5 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Law and the Educational Office Professional
Presenter(s): Kelli Hopkins, Esq., Associate Executive Director, Board Services; Kyle Farmer, Esq., Director, School Laws; & Brent Ghan, Chief Communications Officer; Missouri School Boards Association

This presentation will cover some of the major federal laws impacting our educational system and how they affect the institutions and those who work in them. Topics include discussions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA); the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA); and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); with special focus on how those laws impact office professionals. In addition, the presenters will provide tips for working with the media without violating the confidentiality required by many of these laws.