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From Insight to Action: Taking It Home and Making a Difference Marci Armstrong, Ph.D. November 29, 2007

2. The Changing Face of Leadership: What Does It Mean for You?
Newcomer’s Workshop
Winning in New Market Segments
Serving Small and Mid-Sized Companies
Developing Women Leaders
Experiencing New Markets
Challenges of Different Cultures
Concurrent Sessions
Benchmarking/Networking with Peers

3. Insights and Inspiration
From Insight to Action
Insights and Inspiration
Operational
Plan
Accountability
and Execution

4. Reflect: What critical insights did you gain from this conference
Reflect: What critical insights did you gain from this conference? What inspired you?

5. Plan: What do you want to accomplish
Plan: What do you want to accomplish? List specific outcomes and objectives (Big Picture)

6. Be Accountable: How will you start to execute on your objectives
Be Accountable: How will you start to execute on your objectives? Who does what? When? How will you know you got there (metrics)?

7. You DO Make a Difference!
You get all the blame but none of the credit.
You represent everyone to everyone.
You can’t please everyone all of the time!
Minimize knee jerk reactions but know when to act.
Working with ExEd participants is a lot like parenting.
Commit to help each other.
Build your allies.
Have a REAL life outside of work. 3

8. It’s the journey not the station.