Third Annual Native American Leadership Forum – East
July 12 -13, 2016
Morgan Stanley Headquarters, New York, NY

The premier of the Third Annual Native American Leadership Forum – East, July 12-13th, 2016 at Morgan Stanley Headquarters in Times Square, New York, brings you a course in Leadership Communication Mastery. This interactive, hands-on training will provide opportunities to practice and master leadership and management communications for tribal and organizational success.
To speak with a representative about attending, please call us 201-857-5333 or email us at sales@nativenationevents.org
This two-day training will help you:
- Discover your ideal leadership communication style
- Understand how to identify the communication style of others
- Understand the different ways adults learn and process information to improve relationships and communications
- Identify your learning style and how to select the right people to work on different projects according to their learning style
- Learn the art and skill of coaching and how to use this for leadership success
- Build a personalized communication model to bring back to your own tribe or organization.

Hotel Information
Morgan Stanley Headquarters
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
888-454-3965
Other Hotels In The Area
Edison Hotel
228 West 47th Street
New York, NY 10036
212-840-5000
Sanctuary Hotel New York
132 West 47th Street
New York, NY 10036
800-388-8988
212-234-7000
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel New York City – Times Square
1568 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
212-719-1600
New York Marriott Marquis
1535 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
212-398-1900
Agenda
July 12 -13, 2016
Tuesday, July 12th
8:30 – 9:15 AM
Registration & Breakfast
9:15 – 10:00 AM
Introduction & Opening Leadership Activity: “Stand by Your Quote”
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.
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Session 1: The Secret to How Adults Learn
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.
11:00 – 11:15 AM
Coffee Break and Networking Opportunity
11:15 – 12:30 PM
Coffee Break and Networking Opportunity
- 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.
- In this timed and fast-paced activity, participants will participate in
12:30 – 1:15 PM
Lunch and Networking Opportunity
1:15 – 2:30 PM
Session 3: Robert Rules of Order: A Crash Course
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.
2:30 – 2:45 PM
Afternoon Break and Networking Opportunity
2:45 – 4:00 PM
Session 4: Coach Skill Training Part 1
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.
4:00 – 4:30 PM
Recap & Reflect on Learning of Day 1
Wednesday, July 13th
8:30 – 9:15 AM
Breakfast and Networking Opportunity
9:15 -9:45 AM
Introduction to Day 2 & Ice Breaker
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.
9:45 – 10:45 AM
Session 5: Coach Skill Training Part 2
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.
10:45 – 11:00 AM
Coffee Break and Networking Opportunity
11:00 – 12:30 PM
Session 6: Building an Individual and Group Communication Plan
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.
12:30 – 1:00 PM
Wrap Up & Insights from Overall 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.