Portland Program
September 22, 2006

From Average to Awesome: Bringing out the Best Plus!
Jim Smith, Jr.

“My drive comes from the number of people who’ve touched my life and the number of experiences I’ve learned from…to put it very simply, I love learning, evolving and growing and I love helping others do the same.” – Jim Smith, Jr.

Learn, Practice, Experience, Transform and Contribute with Jim Smith, Jr., award-winning national speaker, dynamite presenter, and co-author with Ken Blachard in this two-part, full day, intense and fun workshop!

LEARN how to bring out the best in yourself, your team, your peers, your customers – everyone you come in contact with.

PRACTICE proven methods for building and empowering teams.

EXPERIENCE what you can do to perform at peak levels every day.

TRANSFORM your learning into real results from average to awesome!

CONTRIBUTE along with ASTD-Cascadia Chapter to support the Hurriance Katrina Fund. A portion of your registration will be donated to the Fund in support of the New Orleans recovery efforts. Jim requested this in lieu of a speaker fee. ASTD Cascadia Chapter will be donating 25% of net revenue.

Who Should Attend
Trainers, managers, consultants, facilitators, and any other T&D professional who wants to enhance themselves and their leadership skills.

Morning Session

Bringing Out the Best Plus!

From the opening exercise to the closing action “next steps” assignment, this workshop highlights what leaders can do to bring out the best in themselves, their team members, their peers and their customers. During this high-energy session, participants interactively explore the following cornerstone leadership components: motivation, communication, diversity, empowerment, trust, staff development, customer advocacy and personal development. The workshop’s objectives are to:

• Improve the team members professional and career development
• Communicate departmental and organizational standards
• Build relationships and motivate the team
• Leverage the expertise of the team and its leaders
• Build advocacy with your customers

Today’s business environment is extremely competitive. Moreover, today’s workers clamor exposure, development and empowerment opportunities. This can be challenging since, in many cases, distance and time creates an unwelcome void between management and staff. In addition, everyone is SO busy! Leaders are seeking creative methods to motivate and connect with their staff and peers. During the Bringing Out The Best Plus! session leaders really take a hard look at, and practice, what they can do to continuously bring out the best in everyone they come in contact with, thereby enhancing business results. Attendees should come prepared to go beneath the surface, stretch, share and step up – to a new level of leadership.

Afternoon Session

Unleashing Your Persona – Ways to Bring Out the True You

This advanced facilitation workshop is for trainers who are ready to take their training to even greater heights.

Trainers enjoy helping people grow, watching their students try on new concepts as they look for ways to apply the key takeaways back on the job (or in the field). Through these myriad experiences and more, trainers grow too, evolving into even more effective facilitators. Nevertheless, some trainers believe there’s a level they haven’t yet reached. There’s a standard they haven’t yet obtained. There’s a zone they haven’t yet experienced…at least up to now.

The Unleashing Your Persona workshop helps trainers to discern what’s needed to stretch even more. During this moving, challenging introspective workshop experienced trainers examine the role fearlessness, creativity and theater play in bringing out his/her best. In addition, participants will experience the five “Persona Power Principles” as they create a personal action plan for taking their training to heights they’ve never reached before. The session also highlights “The Savvy Seven,” (i.e., seven principles every experienced facilitator should know and master in the classroom). The “Savvy Seven” are:

• Intuition
• Connectedness
• Energy
• Power
• Recovery
• Leadership
• Showmanship

Through exercises, presentations, self examination and feedback trainers will develop a personal plan for unleashing their persona.

Speaker

Jim Smith, Jr.
Jimpact Enterprises
Lansdowne, PA
www.jimpact.com

From kindergarten through 12th grade, Jim never missed a day of school. His mother provided the “tough love” that helped develop his indefatigable drive. He played on a National Championship college football team. He won the Vanguard Group of Investments’ prestigious Award of Excellence. He has a way of helping people to breakthrough and stretch to new levels of greatness. He’s Jim “Mr. Energy” Smith, Jr., President and CEO of JIMPACT Enterprises, Inc.

Jim’s favorite quote is Satchel Paige’s, “Dream like you’ll live forever…love like you’ve never been hurt…work like you don’t need the money…and dance like nobody’s watching! This quote helps fuel his fire as he works with his customers to move to extraordinary performance.

Prior to starting JIMPACT Enterprises, Jim was a Senior Consultant for Simmons Associates (Leadership and Diversity Management) and a Performance Solutions Consultant for The Bob Pike Group (Professional Trainer Development, Performance Improvement, Motivation and Presentation Skills). He also spent 14 years in the corporate world working for the following organizations: CoreStates Bank (Vice President, Business Learning Resources), The Vanguard Group of Investments (Management and Organizational Development Consultant) and the Prudential AARP Operations (Associate Manager, Training and Development). Throughout his corporate career he has been known for his creative, spirited, high energy and purposeful approach to developing relationships, talent and solutions. He gives so much of himself to help others be their very best.

Today Jim travels nationally and internationally, for groups of all sizes, to provide breakthroughs to awesome performance. He is a well sought after motivational speaker and has been called “The Trainer’s Trainer.” In addition, he has worked with thousands of leaders and managers to coach them in successful leadership and inclusion principles. He’s a mainstay at a number of conferences including the American Society for Training and Development, the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers, the Society for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Trainers and the Society for Insurance Trainers and Educators. His sessions and keynotes are jam-packed.

Jim’s the author of the inspirational book From Average to Awesome: 41 Plus Gifts in 41 Plus Years and the co-author of the book Masters of Success with Ken Blanchard, Jack Canfield, John Christensen and others). He is currently working on his next book, Crash and Learn: Stuff Trainers do in the Classroom that make People want to SHOUT, sleep or Sneak Out! His journey from a tiny West Philadelphia single parent home, to high school standout, to college football captain, to corporate America leader, to successful business owner has been tremendous. He gave birth to JIMPACT Enterprises, his life long dream, in January of 2000 and the company has been making a JIMPACT throughout the world ever since.

Books

From Average to Awesome: 41 Plus Gifts in 41 Plus Years
Jim Smith, Jr.

Jim Smith, Jr., according to the many thousands who have participated in his moving motivational keynote presentations and workshops, is one of the most energetic and passionate speakers who have come along in recent time. He really connects with his audiences, encouraging them and challenging them to be outstanding. His speaking style evolved, he says, from his ups and downs in corporate America, education, professional and college sports, parenting and marriage. It's this awesome journey that has taken him from a small, second floor, two-bedroom apartment in West Philadelphia to inspiring and motivating both national and international audiences.

From Average to Awesome: 41 Plus Gifts in 41 Plus Years is his first book. The semi- autobiography very conversationally details what Jim has learned is vital for one to live with passion, purpose and power - awesome power! Candid, thought provoking anecdotes and powerful action steps make this book a quick, yet moving read. It will make you stretch because it's more than a rah-rah motivational, self-help book. The "no pain no gain" theory is brought to life as Jim describes the high hurdles he's cleared to get to awesome.

The Masters of Success
Jim Smith, Jr. et al

The contributors to this have written some of the most widely read business books in the modern era and offer their business expertise to corporations and associations around the world. Now, you can tap into their minds and hearts in this edition of The Masters of Success.

What does it take to be a master of success? How is success defined? Inside this book you will find more than one answer to both of these questions as well as tips and ideas on how you can be a success in your own life.

In the fast-paced business world of today, successful people face challenges that did not exist in year past. The Masters of Success contains conversations with several fascinating entrepreneurs who will give you inside information about how they have faced those challenges and persevered to become masters of success. You will learn how common sense can sometimes be more important than costly college degrees.

The Masters of Success presents tips, techniques, stories and illustrations in an interesting conversational style that will help you think “outside the box” and enable you to live your life in such a way that will make a difference and help you be a master of success.

Details

Date	Friday, September 22, 2006
Time	8 am	Registration, Check In and Networking
	8:30 am - 4:30 pm	Program
	4:30 - 5:30 pm	Reception with Jim Smith, Jr
Location	Ambridge Events Center 300 NE Multnomah Portland, Oregon 97232 To find the bus or MAX route from your location, click here. For general directions, use www.mapquest.com.
Parking	Parking is free in the Ambridge parking lot.
Refreshments	A continental breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks will be provided.
Cost	Chapter Members	$115 by 5 pm on Sept 15 $135 after Sept 15
	Others	$135 by 5 pm on Sept 15 $150 after Sept 15
Sponsor	Our thanks for Learning Point of Vancouver for sponsoring the printing of all Jim Smith, Jr.'s materials.
Cancellation Policy	To receive a refund, a written request (email is preferred) before the early bird registration date (listed above) must be received in the ASTD office. Refunds are not given after the early bird registration date.
To Register	Online registration closed. Registration available at the door. Companies registsering 4 or more can receive the 5th registration free. The free registration will be at the lowest price of the 5.

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