JULY 10, 2019
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
4:00 PM (1.0 PDH)

WORKSHOP
4:00 PM (1.0 PDH)

Title : The Martial Art of Communication

Speaker : Dr. Rob Pennington w/ Resource International

Since 1970 psychologist Rob Pennington, Ph.D., award-winning trainer, speaker and author, has been helping individuals and organizations be more successful at work and at home. In 1980 he founded Resource Associates, a private practice in psychology, providing counseling for depression and relationships. In 1995 Rob and Stephen Haslam co-founded Resource International, a management consulting firm providing practical tools for improving the performance of leaders and teams through a better balance of authority and collaboration. Dr. Pennington consulted with the Architect of the Capitol for the Senate in Washington D.C. to implement its first multi-year leadership training program and assessed NASAs Johnson Space Centers assessment of its workforce's effectiveness in dealing with stress and change. He has provided emotional intelligence training and coaching to numerous Fortune 500 companies and worked with many CEOs and their leadership teams to strengthen their abilities to successfully address both change and conflict. And& he received the highest evaluations from ExxonMobil, every year, for 34 years for his multi-day programs: Successfully Managing The Stress of Change and Successful Work Relationships. As a professional speaker, Dr. Pennington received Mental Health Americas Outstanding Speaker Award four times; was one of Meeting Professionals Internationals original Platinum Presenter; was recognized by the CPA Society with their Salute to Excellence award and received the National Speakers Association of Houstons 1st Pennington Award for Excellence in Recognition of Extraordinary and Selfless Service, given annually to the chapter member of the year. At the request of Vistage, a support and training group for C-Suite executives, Rob translated his 40+ years of content development and experience consulting and coaching leaders into The Professional Development Series, an ongoing program of 12 monthly one-day trainings on a wide range of topics managers and high potentials need in order to be successful leaders: www.pdspr.info

ABSTRACT : Everyone has conflicts and arguments with everyone eventually. Learn how to successfully negotiate these inevitable disagreements, in the most respectful ways using 3 Questions to End Conflict and 5 Levels of a Clear Communication. If you want more influence, if you want to reduce the resistance in others to your ideas, if you want a practical pathway for finding the agreement hidden in most disagreements, then make sure you attend this entertaining, insight filled presentation by one of Houstons best speakers  and bring a guest!