A Special Program with Kyla Cox Deckard, Jim McKean, and Luck McKean, for all Bloomington Area Business and Organizational Professionals
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Lunch and Learn: Building Powerful Relationships That Strengthen Your Business with featured speaker Kyla Cox Deckard is a special 2 hour interactive live event that will be held December 10th, 2014 from 11am-1pm at the Monroe County History Center in Bloomington, Indiana. Lunch will be provided. The program is free, but advance registration is required.
To insure a high quality experience and individualized attention for all participants, attendance will be limited to 50 people. Registration is offered on a first come basis. So if you’d like to attend, don’t delay! Call Derek Richey at (812) 345-9712 or Click Here To Register Now.
Kyla Cox Deckard
Director of Public Relations and Community Outreach, Indiana University
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Building Powerful Relationships That Strengthen Your Business…
The term PR often conjures negative images of spin and publicity stunts, but these notions are far removed from the positive and productive way that a public relations plan can improve an organization and build fruitful relationships and partnerships with other organizations and businesses. In this Lunch and Learn, you’ll find out what “public relations” really means, and five simple ways you can make it work for your organization.
Join Coltrain Group and Indiana Univeristy Director of Public Relations and Community Outreach, Kyla Cox Deckard on December 10th for this informative and engaging live event. Kyla’s presentation will cover the following topics:
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How you can employ social media to connect and build partnerships with other businesses and organizations
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Learn different models of communication and which one is most effective for your goals
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Find out why expensive materials and media might not be the answers to your challenges
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Consider crisis communications and the steps to create your own plan
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Gather ideas for inexpensive ways you can improve public relations inside and outside of your organization
About our Featured Speaker: Kyla Cox Deckard is Director of Public Relations and Community Outreach at Indiana University, and the Executive Director of Leadership Bloomington Monroe County.
To insure a high quality experience and individualized attention for all participants, attendance will be limited to 50 people. Registration is offered on a first come basis. So if you’d like to attend, don’t delay! Call Derek Richey at (812) 345-9712 or contact us for more information.
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Program Facilitated by: Jim McKean and Luci McKean (LBMC alumni, class of 2000)
Jim McKean – Coltrain Group, Senior Consultant
Jim McKean is a coach, writer and consultant, based in Bloomington, Indiana. He is known for his group facilitation skills and his deep insights into business models and leadership. He is a trusted adviser to company leaders and skilled at helping leaders map new directions, at designing measurement systems to track progress against goals, identifying key leading indicators to increase the probability of success, and conducting risk analysis to lower the probability of failures in human and technical systems. Jim earned his M.B.A. from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in Management and Decision Information Sciences. He completed the Six Sigma Belt training at Motorola University in Chicago and is a certified practitioner of the Franklin Covey 4 Disciplines of Execution and Vital Smarts Crucial Conversations. As Manager of Research for the IU Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Jim led dozens of management consulting projects for privately held companies in the Midwest, including manufacturers, professional service companies, distributors and transport companies.
Jim McKean has worked with the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, Pratt Visual Solutions, Bloomington Tech Partnership, Indiana Health Information Exchange, Indiana University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Voice Program, Kieffer Paper Mills, NorCote, Inc, Personnel Management Company, Kocolene Development Corporation, Indiana Youth Institute, Lilly Endowment, IU Health, WFYI, Hanapin Marketing, and JGA Associates.
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