06/18 - TLA Morning Meeting

TLA June 18th Meeting Announcement

Technology Leaders Association (TLA) was established to help senior level IT executives develop and manage their careers. As part of this effort, we hold monthly meetings to network, share ideas, and learn from featured guest speakers in the strategy, information technology, and career management fields.

“Speak – Connect – Influence”

Influencing someone to say “yes” to your promotion, budget approval, employment, or sale - all require you to communicating effectively. If this skill is not one of your core competencies, you are missing out on opportunities that someone else is capitalizing on. In this economy, now more than ever, you must communicate with credibility, confidence and influence to stand out from the crowd.

Jeff Hornstein – President of The Speaker’s Choice suggests starting with your own internal audit. Through a holistic intense process including extensive video feedback, mindset examination, and application of simple and effective tools, Jeff and his team help clients build stronger presence and become more confident and competent. The result is a greater ability to influence more with less effort, regardless of the situation or venue.

On June 18th, Jeff will spend an hour with us raising our awareness about:

• Laying the foundation to being perceived as credible.
• Eliminating clutter from your language.
• Connecting with your audience.
• Learning about your audience before creating an important presentation.
• Being more influential.

Date: Friday, June 18th
Where: Acxiom, located at 3333 Finley Road in Downers Grove (8 story building)
Cost: No charge

Special thanks to TLA member and Acxiom employee John Costanza for hosting us this month.

As a special facilities note, all TLA members must be escorted throughout the Acxiom facility. Please do not leave the conference room without an escort.

For reservations, (1) Please sign up online on the TLA website (www.techleaders.net) under ‘Events’ – or, if you don’t have access to the website, (2) Please reply to Patrick.Moroney@gmail.com with your name and telephone number.

For location information: Contact Jim Anfield at jdanfield@illinoisalumni.org.

Reservations must be made before noon on Thursday, June 17th with the first 80 reservations accepted. No walk-ins please.

Directions
Acxiom is located near the intersection of I-355 and I-88 in Downers Grove. Get off the Butterfield Road exit of I-355 and go east to Finley Road. Go south on Finley Road for about a half-mile and Acxiom is located on the east side of Finley. Go to the main entrance of the eight-story building for check-in. Do not go to the other four-story Acxiom building. Parking is available just west of the eight-story building in the parking lot.

Agenda
7:00am – 7:15am Check-in and coffee
7:15am – 8:30am Structured networking – two table rounds
8:30am – 8:40am Announcements
8:40am – 9:30am Jeff Hornstein
9:30am Adjourn

Structured Networking
Structured networking is a technique used at most major executive transition groups. It is meant to be a powerful method of generating ideas that might help each of our searches. During this process, we will quickly brainstorm potential job lead ideas, gain networking contacts at desired companies, and generate advice from the members by sharing our backgrounds as well as our career objectives. It is designed to generate ideas, but given the time constraints, not get into immediate detailed discussions. You should plan on following up with anybody who may have had an interesting idea or a good contact.
Please bring business cards, handbills (career overview) or resumes (plain paper is fine) to pass around if you have them. Figure on about 20 copies of the resumes/handbills and 50 business cards.
We will run our networking, dividing the room into small tables of a maximum of 8 people and doing 2 table rotations before our speaker begins. At each rotation, you will have 90 seconds for your pitch and about 90 seconds for Q&A. Spend no more than 1/3 summarizing your past (this is not the time to rehash your resume), then spend about 1/3 on what you are looking for and 1/3 on what we can do to help (such as target contacts) or ask for advice on an issue.

Speaker Bio
With more than two decades of experience in communications coaching, sales, management, engineering, training, and consulting, Jeff Hornstein helps clients achieve greater impact and influence by developing their leadership presence through powerful spoken business communication. Jeff has worked directly with over 12,000 clients who have reaped the benefits of his approach to professional communication. He is fast becoming one of the most popular choices for communication coaching and presentation training. Jeff works with clients one-on-one, in small and larger groups. Almost all engagements involve very interactive training that employs extensive amounts of video-recorded practice paired with real-time feedback. Clients walk away feeling more confident when dealing with all communication situations: conveying stronger leadership presence, communicating greater credibility, and producing more results with less effort.

An entrepreneur who built his business to a thriving national training organization serving clients such as Allstate Financial, Baxter Healthcare, CME Group, Gallup Consulting, Information Resources Inc., Oracle, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Jeff combines analytics and creativity to give each client a highly effective training experience.

Jeff’s career began in the engineering world. Recognizing the need for client education, Jeff created a training department, new revenue streams and a seminar series for Dukane Ultrasonics. Through this, he discovered his passion for training and made the transition from engineering to communication consulting.

Jeff has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from Illinois State University and a Masters level certificate in Organization Development from Benedictine University. Jeff also has spent the past 17 years steeped in various forms of transformational education.

Jeff and his wife, Kathleen, have 4 children and live in the western suburbs of Chicago. Additionally, he serves on the board of directors for the BHARE foundation - a non-profit organization committed to funding autism research and education.

More information about Jeff and The Speaker’s Choice™ can be found at www.thespeakerschoice.com.