You’re shaping your reputation every day. Will you be known for bold ideas, decisive action, and impressive results? Or will you stand out for something even more powerful: the way you care for people? What if the secret to building influence and trust isn’t just about strategy and execution, but about how you show compassion – even when it’s hard? What if “people work” isn’t a distraction from your goals, but the key to achieving them?

This one-hour session offers practical, tactical ways you can recognize those situations in which compassion is the next right step.  Reflect on why it’s so important to demonstrate caring and compassion; hear real-world stories, reflect on your influence style, and walk away with tools you can use immediately, even on the days you don’t feel like it.

If you’re ready to rise above the noise and gain the kind of influence others follow, by showing genuine, caring compassion as a first response, sign up here!

With a focus on aligning your attraction, selection, and onboarding processes, this workshop will add to your hiring toolbox and strengthen your results. This interactive workshop series includes three 1-hour sessions that blend strategy and practical tools you can implement right away.

Attraction
Recruiting Together with Purpose
Attracting the right candidates is a team effort. Learn how to collaborate between HR, supervisors, and departments to define success before you recruit, create postings that reflect your culture and values, and select the right outreach channels.

Selection
Creating Structure for Success
Feel confident in supporting your individual impressions with evidence-based decisions. Explore how to design structured interviews and rating rubrics, be aware of legal and equitable selection practices, and develop consistent documentation to support a collaborative decision-making process.

Onboarding
Building Connection that Lasts
From new hire to committed team member, the onboarding process is crucial. Discuss supervisor and mentor roles and how to create 30-60-90 day plans that engage beyond orientation for long-term connection, clarity, and success.

Join us for Business Safety 101 on Thursday, February 19th at 9:00 AM at Salem Connections featuring a presentation from Indianola Police Chief Rob Hawkins. This session will cover practical safety concepts to help business owners protect employees, customers, and property, along with an overview of new scams targeting businesses and steps you can take to prevent them. This is a great opportunity to ask questions, gain helpful resources, and leave with simple strategies you can use right away.

Indianola’s Granny Basketball team, the Indy Pacemakers, will take the court for a good cause on Saturday, February 28, at 3 p.m. in the Laura Ingalls Wilder Elementary School gym. The Pacemakers will face the Indy Playmakers, a team made up of staff members from the City of Indianola Parks & Recreation Wellness Campus departments.

Practice, practice, practice! In a safe and friendly environment, with a committed coach who wants nothing but your best success, gain actionable tools and tips to improve your mastery of speaking and presenting to others.

Whether it’s a simple switch or a major move, change can cause disruption, but it doesn’t have to cause dysfunction. With just a handful of key concepts, anyone can help enable change in an organizational context in a way that protects both the people and the business, and doesn’t create unnecessary pain. Join us in this half-day session to learn more.

Overview
So, you’ve been doing this for a while, and you’ve got habits, practices, techniques, and a reputation for being capable. Now what? How do you keep advancing? This half-day workshop explores three techniques seasoned leaders, project managers, business analysts, and others can apply to step up your game even further, to continue to increase your positive influence within your environment. Learn how leveraging the languages of appreciation can kickstart stagnant stakeholder relationships, how maximizing emotional intelligence in the moment can disarm even the most troublesome situation, and unleash the power of two little words that can change everything for the better. This half-day class includes three techniques used by seasoned professionals to get the most out of working relationships with sponsors, team members, and even those tricky stakeholders.

Objectives
By attending this series, participants will:

• Gain proven tips for the application of personal power to elevate your relationships

• Practice techniques to appreciate your stakeholders across the aisles

• Encounter and apply two words as a simple and highly effective way to disarm negativity, prevent unnecessary drama, and regain focus before a conversation goes sideways

• Commit to two things you’ll do even better starting right now

Conflict is bound to emerge any time two or more people are working together, and this module equips participants with the tools they need to navigate through tough moments of disagreement in the workplace, including focusing on making the situation safe, demonstrating that the other person is valuable, finding our shared purpose, demonstrating candor, all while wrapping it in effective communication.