[Oasfaa] FW: [SWASFAA Team Chatter] Registration closes soon for Leadership Workshop!

[Schmerer, Mendy M. (HSC)]

Hey, have you heard? There's a SWASFAA conference, Boot Camp, and Leadership Workshop coming up.  Just wanted to pass this along in case you didn't know.  Check out the latest blog post at http://swasfaa.org/b/. 

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Mendy Schmerer, M.Ed.
Assistant Director
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University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
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From: SWASFAA Team Chatter [mailto:blog at swasfaa.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:28 AM
To: Schmerer, Mendy M. (HSC)
Subject: [SWASFAA Team Chatter] Registration closes soon for Leadership Workshop!

SWASFAA Team Chatter has posted a new item, 'Registration closes soon for Leadership Workshop!'

Ah, fall is finally in the air!  Here in Oklahoma, I was beginning to think that the summer temperatures were never going to end.  Now that we’ve reached the mid-point of October, that means the SWASFAA Conference, Boot Camp, and the Leadership Workshop are so very close.  Two and one-half weeks away kind of close, in fact!  I don’t know about you, but I’m so looking forward to New Orleans—all the food, the culture, the music, and just as importantly, the learning, the networking, and the camaraderie that comes with spending several days with colleagues.

Registration for the Leadership Workshop closes on October 24th and we only have a few spots left, so you want to make sure you don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity.  We are intentionally limiting registration to encourage as much dialogue and relationship building as we can squeeze into our relatively short timeframe.

For only $75, on Wednesday, November 5th, from 7:30-12:00, the Leadership Development Committee is going to facilitate an agenda that should leave you feeling enlightened, empowered, and excited about your leadership abilities.

We’re going to start with a hot breakfast, and then move quickly into the agenda.  Participants will have received the True Colors personality assessment prior to arrival at the Workshop, so we will be able to dive right into what those colors mean for each of us, how that affects the way we interact with those around us, what we can do to utilize all of our colors, and as leaders, how we can help others turn up the volume on all their colors as well.

Next, once everyone has a better understanding of their colors and what they mean, the Committee is going to lead participants through an hour of “Making It Real.”  What we will spend our time on will be the most important topics of leadership, like collaboration within the aid office and with others on campus, building your office into a cohesive team, creating a vision for your office that everyone can work to support, and many others, and how you take your newfound knowledge of your colors and apply that to the essential leadership areas we discuss.

Have you ever wanted to ask a particular question about how SWASFAA and NASFAA work?  Or how you can get involved?  This is your chance!  During the final hour, the participants will have the opportunity to spend some one-on-one time with SWASFAA Board members and Committee chairs, NASFAA President Justin Draeger, and NASFAA National Chair Eileen O’Leary.  Finally, we’ll do what we’re calling a “blended” activity, which means everyone will get engaged in finding out about volunteer opportunities that can serve to highlight a person’s more dominate color(s), or can brighten a non-dominate color.

Time is running out, so if you’re already registered for the conference, go back and modify your registration to include the Leadership Workshop.  If you aren’t registered at all, then what are you waiting for?  There is no late registration like there is for the conference.  Registration closes on the 24th, period, so get in before all our spots fill up!

I look forward to seeing you soon!

Mendy Schmerer

Oklahoma Delegate-at-Large and Leadership Development Committee Chair

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