Red River Leadership Institute | Texarkana, Texas
What: Red River Leadership Institute
Dates: September 15-16, 2025
Time: Registration 8:00 a.m. | Sessions 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: ATCOG, 4808 Elizabeth St, Texarkana, TX 75503
Cost: Free
Included: Lunch, Course Materials
Registration: Click Here
Day 1 | Session 1
Building Communication in the Workplace
This is a highly interactive program focusing on the human side of every leader’s job. Communication, Teamwork, and a one-team Attitude are needed for a high-performance organization. The word community describes the character of today’s successful work environment. It implies purpose, spirit and human belonging. These are qualities that address basic needs of individuals and groups from the executive office to the front line.
Topics include:
• Keep Calm and Carry On
• Organization Success
• Positive vs. Negative Group Member Roles
• Trust and Respect – Community Building Exercise
• Understanding and Dealing with Different Types of People
• Managing Conflict – 3 Simple rules
• Valuing Diversity as a Strength
Day 1 | Session 2
Helping People Through Change
This is a highly interactive program focusing on dealing with complex change. Organizational strategies and individual coping skills are needed to survive the volume and pace of change in today’s world of work. This program features the power of vision, the importance of attitude, and the key characteristics of the hardy personality.
Topics include:
• Myths and Realities in Dealing with Change
• Leading Change – Seven Step Process
• The Importance of Attitude – It Starts With You
• Maintaining Balance – Personal and Professional Coping Skills
• Characteristics of a Hardy Personality
• Wisdom of the Ages
• Succeeding at Work and Living to Tell About It
• Celebrating What’s Right with the World
Day 2 | Session 1
Fostering a High-Performance Culture
This is a highly interactive program focusing on leadership effectiveness and people building skills. Although management by objective is important, managing by value is essential for today’s successful leader. At the heart of caring leadership are basic honesty, mutual trust, respect for all people, personal courage, and if all else fails, the caring confrontation.
Topics include:
• Productivity and The Importance of Leadership
• Leader as Teambuilder and Developer of People
• Trust, Respect, and The Caring Confrontation
• Performance Management – Coaching Others to Succeed
• How to Attract and Keep Good People
• Ethics at Work and Value-based Leadership
• Being the Leader You Always Wanted to Have
• Psychological Size and Two-Way Communication
Day 2 | Session 2
Service Excellence Through Team Concept
This is a highly interactive program focusing on customer satisfaction through work group effectiveness, problem-solving styles, and team-building processes. Subjects are made practical for use back on the job. Participants learn team-building skills appropriate for all levels of leadership.
Topics include:
• Focus on Service
• Working Together Works
• The Importance of TEAMS
• TEAMS on the Way Up/TEAMS on the Way Down
• Regional Success
• Problem-solving Styles and Work Group Dynamics
• Tapping the Constructive Power of the Group for Talent/Technology/Tolerance
• Personal Commitment – Would You Hire You?