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Board of Overseers
The Daniel C. Gainey Conference Center of the University of St. Thomas recently welcomed two new members to its Board of Overseers. Mary Hazzard, Osceola, Wis., and Dr. Victoria Young, of St. Paul, both bring extensive business and personal experience to the board.
Hazzard is president and owner of Business AdvantEdge, a small-business professional association member-benefit provider. She has worked in group travel sales and incentives and previously owned two travel companies.
Hazzard received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota in Spanish and Portuguese. She has served as an officer and board member for Minnesota Executive Women in Travel and as secretary for National Parks and Trails, Gateway Trail Association.
She is a member of the National Federation of Independent Business Leadership Committee. Hazzard has been named to Travel Agent Magazine’s list of “Most Powerful Women in Travel” and one of Travel Counselor Magazine’s “18 Most Influential Women in the Travel Industry.”
Young is an associate professor and director of the Master of Arts in Art History Program at St. Thomas. She focuses on 19th- and 20th-century architecture, with interests in space, kinetic architecture and the work of architect Frank Gehry. Young and several students are writing an exhibition for the Gehry-designed Winton Guesthouse that has been moved to the Gainey Center and is being restored.
Young received her undergraduate degree from New York University and her master’s and doctorate in architectural history from the University of Virginia. She is a former director and president of the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. Currently she serves on Minnesota’s State Historic Review Board and Governor’s Residence Council. She is a director for the National Board of the Society for Architectural Historians.
Gainey’s 17-member Board of Overseers is drawn from the Owatonna community, corporate users of the center and deans and directors of St. Thomas. They are called on to suggest opportunities for growth and provide advice on operational issues. Local Board members include Roger Bailey, Jerry Deetz, Tom Effertz, Charlie Herrmann, Barbara Jacobson, Margaret Michaletz and Lyle Meschke.
The conference center opened in 1982 on the estate of the late Daniel C. Gainey and incorporates his striking French Norman home. A respected businessman with a commitment to education, Gainey designated that his estate be developed into an educational center as a legacy to his love for learning.
Complimentary Getaway at Gainey!
Refer a colleague, friend or family member to the Gainey Conference Center and receive a complimentary Gainey Getaway!
A Gainey Getaway* is your chance to enjoy the Gainey Experience - classic cuisine, Midwest hospitality, cozy lodging and acres to explore and enjoy.
How the promotion works – when your friend, family or colleague contacts Gainey, stating your referral and booking an event on or before December 31, 2010 with revenue of $2000 or more we send you a Gainey Getaway gift certificate – it’s that simple!
For more information, contact Gina Yetzer, (507) 446-4461 or gmyetzer@stthomas.edu.
To schedule a Gainey Getaway or luncheon contact Emily Petraglia, (507) 446-4462 or petr3316@stthomas.edu.
*Gainey Getaway includes a guestroom and breakfast for one – add a guest, $50.
Spotlight Non-Profit of the Season
Walking casually through aisles lined with food and chatting with friendly patrons, one wouldn’t know they were standing inside a food shelf. The atmosphere is that of a small, local grocer—which is exactly the environment Steele County Food Shelf (SCFS) tries to create. While SCFS’s mission is the provide food to the hungry, promote self sufficiency, and coordinate with other poverty and hunger-related services, the organization is also committed to treating patrons with dignity and respect. This is why the client experience is set up to be similar to going to a grocery store. Staff and volunteers build personal relationships with every person who turns to them for food assistance. It is, in part, through these relationships that the Food Shelf gains a better understanding of the root causes of hunger. In turn, the Food Shelf works to educate the community and promote the social and economic conditions that are essential to ending hunger.
Steele County Food Shelf evolved from a combination of several local church groups which served the food-related needs of the community throughout the 1970s and 80s. As the demand for food support grew, Steele County Food Shelf was incorporated. 1989 marks the organization’s first year of official operation. In the years that followed, the agency was instrumental in creating a nutritionally appropriate, standard food package that is now used by food shelves throughout Minnesota.
Today, approximately 500 area households receive food assistance from Steele County Food Shelf each month and nearly 600,000 pounds of food are distributed by the organization each year. Thanks to the generous support of donors and volunteers, the agency can continue to serve the growing number of individuals and families facing food-related challenges.
Spotlight Non-Profit is a new feature for the Gainey Newsletter! Each season we will feature a local non-profit. If you are interested in being featured in our new section, please contact us!
Company Picnics
Summer is finally here! Treat your team to the fun and seasonal flavors of the season by hosting a picnic on the lovely manicured grounds of the Gainey Center.
On site recreation will enhance your picnic and pull your team closer together!
Sample Picnic Menus:
The Estate Picnic includes slow cooked pork ribs, barbeque chicken breasts, heirloom potato salad and tangy vegetable slaw.
The Backyard Picnic includes Nathan’s grilled hot dogs, half pound grilled hamburgers and traditional potato salad.
*Both include steamed buttered sweet corn, watermelon and a fresh seasonal desert.
For more information contact Gina Yetzer at (507) 446-4461 or gmyetzer@stthomas.edu
White Paint Club
Every year 6-graders from St. Mary’s School in Owatonna visit the Gainey grounds to help Gainey with our seasonal facelift. This year, the students painted the fence that runs on the West end of our property, just beyond the Center’s main building. A huge thank you goes out to all who were involved!
Leadership Development…Revisited
By Scott Schwefel, Managing Partner, Insights Twin Cities
The more things change, the more they remain the same. The last 2-3 years have presented organizations with some of the most difficult market circumstances that our current leaders have ever faced. As a result of the current market challenges, leaders in organizations are being tested as never before. Some are making the cut, and are able to steer their teams and their organizations through the very rough waters, but others, many of them who had been up to the task in less difficult circumstances, are failing at an alarming rate. Which leads us all back to where it all started, namely, leaders rarely, if ever just show up, they are developed systematically, and on purpose over many years. It’s called Leadership Development, and it is back in favor.
You might just be one of these leaders, making the cut, working harder than ever before, but you are getting the job done. Luckily you have been developed as a leader, to understand that leadership is always being tested, and effective leaders are able to pass those myriad tests. This preparation is always powerful, and necessary to confront a rapidly changing marketplace, and also deal with more people issues than ever before. So, how do you know if you are ready, before you are called into dramatic action, in the heat of battle, where your performance might mean success or failure for your entire organization?
It is about balance. That is the key.
All leaders start out with a unique personality style. Historically these were assessed through psychometric instruments like mbti, or DiSC based instruments, of which there are a thousand variations. In the last 20-30 years there have been hundreds of new assessments added into the marketplace, and many which are well-validated, and provide real value to developing leaders, and that is where we can begin to understand what is meant by balance being the key to leadership.
As a leadership facilitator and speaker, I have used over a dozen different instruments to help leaders learn about balance. Insights Discovery being my selected assessment for the last 10 years, as it provides a leadership model that is both easy to understand, valid and reliable Insights Discovery offers a Jungian model partitioned by thinking/feeling and introversion/extroversion. When Intuition and Sensing are added to this basic model, it is expanded to represent 8 types. This expanded 8 type model is the basis for the Insights Transformational leadership model.
Any leader, regardless of their unique personality type, must understand both their natural strengths as a leader, and also what other dimensions of leadership they will be called upon to use.
This graphic illustrates the 4 manifestations, and 8 dimensions of leadership. The 4 manifestations are aligned as follows:
Relationship Leadership – Feeling based decision making
Results Leadership – Thinking based decision making
Visionary Leadership – Extroverted Leadership style
Centered Leadership – Introverted Leadership style
The Insights Discovery Personal profile can help a leader define themselves in relation to 4 quadrants defined by these definitions. Where this model shines, is how it can then help developing leaders see themselves in the context of the entirety of leadership; and the wholeness that will be required of them in the demanding role that every leader must play in difficult times.
What balance leaders must achieve is represented in the graphic as the 8 dimensions of leadership. These dimensions are aligned with an individual’s position relative to the manifestations. As an example, I lead with an Extroverted Feeling style, defined as Insights’ Sunshine Yellow. As you can see, this puts me into the “Communicating with Impact” leadership dimension, which is where I am most comfortable. Knowing that leadership will require more from me than just Communicating with Impact, I am able to clearly see what other dimensions of leadership I may be called upon to use. The closer they are to my unique home dimension, the more likely I will be able to demonstrate them effectively, and the further from my home dimension, the more effort I will have to exert to display the other dimensions effectively.
Those of you called into positions of leadership at some time will need to stretch yourselves into many, but knowing just how far you will need to stretch is an excellent first step in taking your leadership style in the right direction. As Carl Jung himself said, “all advancement, all achievement of mankind has started with an advancement in self-awareness”. This is the charge for every leader, to know thyself, so you can then lead others.
To learn more about Insights 8 dimensions of leadership, contact Scott Schwefel or Insights Discovery.
Flickr
The Gainey Conference Center is now on Flickr! Check out all of our photos!
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For more information or to make reservations, please contact:
Gina Yetzer
(507) 446-4461
gmyetzer@stthomas.edu
http://www.stthomas.edu/gainey
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