Leadership Blog

Happy New Year from all of us at Leadership Menomonee Falls.  We have an awesome session planned this month.  It is a joint meeting with the Germantown Leadership Program.  There will be over 40 amazing leaders coming together to learn more about our healthcare system and to network to serve others more effectively.

We will be meeting at Community Memorial Hospital – which is such a fitting location for our first meeting of the year.  A location that inspirational with the level of commitment to the service to others.

We will have the opportunity to meet physicians, nurses, department managers and administrators; to learn more about the workings of the hospital and the effect of healthcare on our community.
Our participants will also participate in networking and teamwork building.  We will be challenging our leaders from two communities to come together and work for a common goal. 

At Leadership Menomonee Falls we like to challenge our participants, by giving them opportunities to go outside their comfort zone.  We do that by group activities and great discussion.

My challenge to you this month is to find someone who could benefit from the Leadership Program and invite them to submit an application.  We start accepting applications as of the first of the year.  If you would like to meet with myself or a board member to discuss the program in more detail feel free to call Toni at the Chamber (262) 251-2430.

The December Session of Leadership Menomonee Falls is very enlightening.  How often do we drive by a business and wonder- what do they do, who are they, why don’t they, how come they?  This is the session that we get to meet some of our community business leaders.  We will discuss economic development and the effects our villages make to create a vibrant and vital business community.

In addition to economic discussion, we will be discussing Emotional Intelligence.  For many years, it was thought that a person’s intelligence (IQ or intelligence quotient) determined how people succeeded in life. Schools used IQ tests to choose children for gifted programs and some companies even used IQ scores when hiring. In the last ten years, researchers have found that IQ isn’t the only predictor of a person’s success. They are now looking at emotional intelligence (EQ) as another determinant of a person’s success in life.

“Emotional intelligence is a different way of being smart. It includes knowing what your feelings are and using your feelings to make good decisions in life. It’s being able to manage distressing moods well and control impulses. It’s being motivated and remaining hopeful and optimistic when you have setbacks in working toward goals. It’s empathy; knowing what the people around you are feeling. And it’s social skill—getting along well with other people, managing emotions in relationships, being able to persuade or lead others,” (O’Neil, 1996, p. 6).

You are invited to attend this session or a portion of there of at no charge.  Just call or email at the Menomonee Falls Chamber to reserve your attendance.  262) 251-2430 or email:  .

Note:  For security reasons, you will be unable to attend without a reservation. Thank you for your cooperation.

When: Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 - 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Where:  Wells Fargo, 100 Heritage Reserve, Menomonee Falls, WI 53051