Eugene Calendar

2009 Eugene Meetings

Wednesday September 30th at 7pm.
Topic: Roundtable -- The pros and cons of online pharmacy in your practice.
Location to be at Trish Ashley's clinic (http://www.vetallergy.net/)
As we're working to keep the Eugene group alive and active, please reach out and invite a friend or colleague to this meeting! It would be great to have some new faces and keep the energy of this group going strong.

Wednesday November 4th at 7-9pm
Location: McKenzie Animal Hospital in Springfield OR
Topic: Leading Yourself, Leading Your Practice
Speaker: Karen Howells

Understand, embrace and leverage your leadership style
Capitalize on the power of questions to coach and influence others
Engage others in crucial conversations that resolve issues and forward relationships

Karen Howells is the President and Founder of The Howells Group, Inc., a growing and innovative US-based organizational development consulting practice. The Howells Group helps current and emerging leaders in a variety of businesses learn new skills, see new possibilities and gain broader perspectives through executive coaching, team development and breakthrough strategic counsel.
Karen has worked as an executive coach as well as a leadership, teamwork and organization development specialist for companies large and small around the world for more that 20 years. Karen is also a highly respected and seasoned keynote speaker and meeting facilitator. She creates and leads management and leadership development programs for groups from 5 to 500 and speaks frequently before business and non-profit groups around the nation.
A sampling of current and former clients include senior managers and executives at Nike, Intel Corporation, American Express, Freightliner, Cadence Design Systems, Hewlett Packard, Banfield Pet Hospital and the American Red Cross. These types of clients and many more have relied on Karen and members of her team to help them navigate through a wide variety of challenging leadership and "people" issues - issues that if addressed thoughtfully can make the difference between success, mediocrity or worse, failure. A recent assignments included helping Intel develop and retain key women in leadership through executive coaching, meeting facilitation and customized leadership development forums.
January 2010: TBD

March 2010: TBD

Thursday June 24th: 7-9pm
Title: Confront Conflict Constructively "Harnessing the power of conflict to build relationships"
Location: TBD
Our Speaker Chelsea Martin from 4C Professional Communication will be teaching about:

The role of perception in conflict

5 main conflict styles

7 principles of constructive communication

To Learn more about Chelsea you can visit:www.4cprofessionalcommunication.com