Team up with us to help the Ronald McDonald House
Join us Sunday, April 14 as we serve dinner to 30 - 35 people at the Ronald McDonald House. We're looking for 8 - 10 volunteers who are willing to prepare a meal and spend a few hours helping us. Email mgcmacc@gmail.com to participate!
Even you can't come or prepare a dish, you can still help! We're collecting items to donate to the Ronald McDonald House and their 
Family Room located at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. Items for donation include individual-serving foods, including foods that can be heated in a microwave, paper goods, and cleaning items. A complete list of items can be found here: House and Family Room.
Donation boxes will be located outside the Grad Pad and Dr. Alexander’s office (Barbara Massey Hall, Room 447) until April 12.
Get sophisticated! Massey offers professional photography session
What does your online image say about you?
CNN reports that upwards of 70% of US business managers have chosen not to hire a potential job candidate based on unflattering images of the candidate online. Don't let this happen to you!
All Massey Graduate Students are invited to attend a professional photography session April 16-17 from 4:30-6 p.m. Sessions will be on a first-come, first-served basis. For $35, payable by cash or check, you will receive a disc with edited headshots for your own use online, in business cards, resumes, etc.
Come dressed to impress in your best suit and tie!
Specific location details to follow. Please RSVP to mgcmacc@gmail.com by April 12 so that we may estimate how many people to expect.
Events calendar for Center for Executive Education
The Center for Executive Education offers the following exciting events this Spring:
Tuesday-Wednesday, April 23-24, 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Mastering Business Finance
This simulation-based program equips participants without financial backgrounds with essential financial and business acumen to make effective business decisions.
Link to register: http://www.belmontleadership.com/finance/
Wednesday, May 1
SPRING LEADERSHIP BREAKFAST
Liz Wiseman
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Liz teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the President of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence, and writes for Harvard Business Review. A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development.
Location: Curb Event Center Arena, Belmont University
• 6:30 a.m. Registration and Networking
• 7:00 - 7:30 a.m. Breakfast
• 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. Liz Wiseman: Multipliers
• 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. Talk-Back Session
In partnership with: Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
Link to register: https://secure.sitemason.com/form/lDZoOY
Tuesday-Wednesday, May 7-8, 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Accelerated Leadership Foundations
This 2-day program equips new and newer managers with the fundamental high-impact management skills to be successful managers of people.
Link to register: http://www.belmontleadership.com/leadership/
Tuesday-Thursday, May 21-23, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Leadership Boot Camp
This 3 day program equips leaders with self-awareness, feedback, coaching and development planning to get them on the right track for future leadership growth.
Link to register: http://www.belmontleadership.com/bootcamp/
Renowned speaker headlines Spring Leadership Breakfast
When: Wednesday, May 1
What: SPRING LEADERSHIP BREAKFAST
Where: Curb Events Center
Who: Leadership speaker Liz Wiseman
Topic: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Liz Wiseman teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the President of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence, and writes for Harvard Business Review. A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development.
• 6:30 a.m. Registration and Networking
• 7:00 - 7:30 a.m. Breakfast
• 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. Liz Wiseman: Multipliers
• 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. Talk-Back Session
Executive Education event: How to turn conflict into creativity
Does workplace conflict prevent you for maximizing the potential of your personnel? Do you dread confrontation with your colleagues? Belmont's Center for Executive Education presents a one-day event aimed at turning conflict situations into creative problem-solving conversations -- Transforming Conflict into Creativity.
This one–day workshop equips participants with the “Owner’s Manual” for transforming everyday workplace conflict in to creative problem-solving and improved results. This unique program will equip you with mindsets and approaches that go beyond the typical tips and tools for “managing” or “mediating” conflict. It’s much more than that.
Who would benefit from this program? Leaders, managers, and professionals who would like to experience improved working relationships and improved results.
When does it take place? The event will be held March 19 from 7:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. 
What knowledge will I gain?
- Learn a 4-Step Process to achieve consistent results – no matter what the challenge or situation
- Transform conflict to creativity in real time in a manner that strengthens relationships
- Identify and address fundamental human needs
- Develop the skills to recognize and use emotions as a guide to meeting individual and organizational needs
- Harness the power of curiosity
- Embrace the power of choice for personal empowerment and accountability
- Learn to create respect in any situation to establish a sense of emotional and psychological safety.
Nominations open for Distinguished Alumni Award
NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN! The Massey Distinguished Alumni Award is an annual honor created by Massey Alumni for a Massey alum that recognizes a graduate of The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business who has demonstrated excellence in the areas of professional achievement, community involvement, and commitment to the Massey School.
Over the past six years, the award has continued to gain esteem through the strength of its previous recipients. Please take a moment to help the Massey Alumni Advisory Board continue this tradition by nominating a deserving Massey Alum.
For more information on the award, past recipients, and to make a nomination, please click here. The 2013 nomination deadline is May 3rd.
Pictured (l to r): 2012 alumni board president Courtney Hensley, Distinguished Graduate 2012 Helen Lane, and COBA Dean Pat Raines
Third Thursday: Kicking off your job search with a bang!
One-day program focuses on coaching in the workplace
Sometimes it's hard to take advantage of teachable moments in the workplace, whether you're a senior manager or a front-line employee. The Center for Executive Education presents an event aimed at teaching the tools and approaches needed to conduct highly effective coaching conversations whenever and wherever learning opportunities arise.
Coaching in the Moment, a one-day event held April 3, will teach participants to:
- Recognize coachable moments
- Successfully conduct coaching conversations in day-to-day interactions
- Integrate coaching approaches into their leadership style
- Engage others in finding their own paths forward
Everyone can benefit from learning how to use coaching approaches in their day-to-day interactions. This workshop is well received at all levels of the organization. Whether your senior managers could create higher levels of engagement using coaching approaches, or your first line supervisors would be more effective taking a coaching approach to interpersonal challenges, Coaching in the Moment improves the capabilities of your people to integrate coaching into their work.
If you're interested in the event, you can find more details here. You can RSVP here.
Angel Tree donation project a success
Thanks to all who donated toys and supplies to Massey's Angel Tree this Christmas season! The project was a success, according to the students who coordinated the donation process.
"The donation drive went well, and the Grad Council along with the Salvation Army are very grateful to all those who graciously donated items to a great cause," said Grad Council member Joanna Bednarz.
The Council plans on helping more charities in the coming months.
"We will be hosting several events in the spring to help those in need and look forward to expanding Belmont's student involvement in the Nashville community," Bednarz said.
Read the e-Leader every month for updates on new charity activities.
Along with the familiar Red Kettles, the Angel Tree program is one of The Salvation Army's highest profile Christmas efforts. Angel Tree was created by The Salvation Army in 1979 by Majors Charles and Shirley White when they worked with a Lynchburg, Virginia shopping mall to provide clothing and toys for children at Christmastime.
The program got its name because the Whites identified the wishes of local children by writing their gift needs on Hallmark greeting cards that featured pictures of angels. They placed the cards on a Christmas tree at the mall to allow shoppers to select children to help. Thanks to the Whites, who were assigned by The Army to the Lynchburg area at the time, more than 700 children had a brighter Christmas that first year.
Three years later, when the Whites were transferred to Nashville, Tennessee, Angel Tree was launched in the Music City. WSM radio, which airs the Grand Ol' Opry, came on board that year as the first Angel Tree co-sponsor in the U.S.
Because of the on-air promotion on WSM in Nashville, as well as national publicity on CNN and the Larry King Show, news of Angel Tree spread across the country like wildfire.
Who Angel Tree Serves:
Angel Tree gives individuals and partnering corporations an opportunity to adopt less fortunate children and seniors and provide them with personalized gifts and necessities to those who would otherwise receive very little or nothing during the holiday season. Donors can be confident that their gifts go directly, and without excessive overhead, to those who are truly needy since all Salvation Army Angels and are not served by other holiday assistance programs.
October volunteer event: Ghouls at Grassmere
Do you wish it was socially acceptable for adults to go trick-or-treating? We do, too. And on October 21, it will be!
October's volunteer opportunity is a sweet one -- literally. Join your Massey classmates and alums as we help staff Ghouls at Grassmere, an trick-or-treat event at the Nashville Zoo from 5-9 p.m. 
For more information on the event, click here. To sign up, email Andrea Frey at mgcsocialchair@gmail.com.