March 22, 2005

The 2005 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Institute Focuses on 'The Right Players in the Right Places'

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - "Effective leadership and assembling the right team are the keys to success when implementing organizational change in the behavioral health and social service field. That's what drove our theme for the 2005 institute – 'the right players in the right places,'" said OPEN MINDS President Monica E. Oss.

This year's 2005 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Institute: Building Your Executive Leadership Team will be held on July 28-29, 2005, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at The Best Western Historic Gettysburg Hotel. This Institute is the only event for executives in the behavioral health and social service industry incorporating the leadership styles of present with the lessons learned through historic Civil War leaders.

Featured sessions include:

  • Managing Change: The Leader's Challenge by Monica E. Oss, President, OPEN MINDS

  • Leading an Organization Through Change: Models for Facilitating Organizational Change by Monica E. Oss

  • Understanding Your Leadership Style & Building Your Leadership Skills by John F. Talbot, Ph.D., Director of Business Development, OPEN MINDS

  • Meeting the Current Leadership Challenges In Child Welfare: The DePelchin Case Study presented by Curtis Mooney, Ph.D., President and CEO of DePelchin Children’s Center

  •  Overcoming the Brain Drain – Succession Management in the Human Services Area by Belinda Willis, Consultant, OPEN MINDS

  • Unique Challenges of Evolving From Clinical Professional to Clinical Leader to Manager by John F. Talbot, Ph.D.

  • Improving the Effectiveness of Your Non-Profit Board: Tools for Planning, Performance Measurement, & Self Assessment by Belinda Willis, Consultant, OPEN MINDS

Take a break from the ‘usual stuff’ and participate in a unique approach to examining leadership principles in the classroom and on the battlefield. Leadership styles used during the Battle of Gettysburg, battles that freed our country from slavery, will be compared to leadership styles used today. Day one will expose you to the elements of today’s leadership challenges of managing change, building leadership skill, improving efficiencies and succession management. Day two of this institute will include trips to the National Battlefield with noted historians and guides Ambassador Lawrence Taylor and William Rosenbach, Ph.D. to help participants envision Civil War leadership styles in action. Exploring leadership through examples outside the human services field is a critical component when contemplating organizational change and determining how to facilitate it.

Sponsors of the 2005 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Institute include:

  • Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

  • Anasazi Software Inc.

  • Pennsylvania Community Providers Association

  • Pennsylvania Council of Children, Youth and Family Services

Registration is $795 per person
Early Bird Registration ($695) deadline is June 15, 2005
Group rates are available.

For more information and a complete agenda, visit our web site, call toll free 877-350-6463, or e-mail openminds@openminds.com.

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