This interactive activity will allow participants to identify with powerful quotes on leadership communication that most reflect their own leadership communication mastery. It will allow for dialogue between participants and set the tone for individual and collective goals for the entire training.

This presentation and activity will allow participants to understand the different ways adults learn and process information.

• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic

Participants will:

• Discover their own dominant learning style and understand how to communicate with other learning styles.
• Understand how to identify and design meetings, presentations and communications that help an audience learn, understand and be moved to act.
• Activity: Participants will brainstorm and present a tribal-specific topic mock presentation that includes all of the learning styles.

• Interactive Discussion & Activity
  Participants will:
  Assess and learn about different leadership and communication styles.
• Understand Situational Leadership: How to shift leadership and communication styles for different situations to create productivity, change, and progress.
• Activity: Leadership & Communication Best Practices Interactive Speed Session
  • In this timed and fast-paced activity, participants will participate in
    several discussions that require them to select the appropriate leadership and communication styles for different tribal-specific and organizational issues that require different approaches. This is an ideal time for tribal and organizational leaders to share best practices when it comes to leading effectively. Groups will compare their approach and build a best practices guide as the activity evolves.

This interactive presentation is design to leverage leadership communication skills inside a specific process to run effective meetings.
Participants will:

• Review a comprehensive overview of the Robert Rules of Order.
• Understand how the Robert Rules of Order helps to support effective meetings.
• Learn how to design and manage an effective agenda according to the Robert Rules of Order.
• Discuss roles in a meeting using the Robert Rules of Order: who is responsible for what?
• Explore how to manage meeting debates, motions, voting, meeting minutes, quorums and interruptions.
• Activity: Create a Robert Rules of Order mini-guide and how to use this on the spot after the training.

Coaching is a communication skill and process that leaders can use both formally and informally to build relationships and empower others to do their best thinking. Part 1 of this training will go over Coaching Basis to prepare for coach skill mock training on Day 2 Participants will:

• Gain an understanding of the coaching process to be used for leadership and peer-to-peer conversations for positive change.
• Learn how to build a coaching conversation.
• Understand when coaching is an appropriate leadership communication tool.
• Activity: Small groups will get coach conversation scenarios and build a coaching conversation to help practice the skills learned.

Icebreaker: Leadership Swap

This activity is a small group exchange and a way for leadership to identify and exchange examples of good leadership, discuss current challenges and learn from each other’s expertise. Groups will be given specific instances for participants to recall and share about.

Participants will utilize their coach skill training from Day 1 to facilitate peer-to-peer coaching conversations. Participants will:

• Observe a demonstration of a coaching conversation.
• Review the roadmap of the coaching conversation.
• Prepare a coaching conversation.
• Mock a coaching conversation with a partner.

During this interactive session, participants will:

• Design an individual leadership communication plan that takes into account:
  • Adult Learning o Leadership Styles
  • Conducting Meetings & Presentations
  • Coaching
• Discuss implications for tribal or organizational communication planning and brainstorm ideas to bring back home after the training.

Participants will review learning and set tangible goals for taking new learning back to their tribe or organization.

Participants will be invited to a follow-up webinar 2 weeks after the training to reinforce learning.