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How To Tell Great Stories About Great and Not so Great Presidents
By telling great stories about the presidents, we can learn lessons of history and of character from their life-changing tales. The presenter will coach beginning story tellers in a non-threatening fashion. Resources will be provided for researching information and stories about the presidents.
Will TR Get His Congressional Medal of Honor? -- Teddy Roosevelt and the Spanish-American War
Dr. Philip Schoenberg, an expert on the presidents and Teddy Roosevelt in particular, will explain why the Spanish-American War was the turning point in Roosevelt's life. He will examine whether or not TR deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor and how the war helped him become the President of the United States.
[Theodore Roosevelt received his Congressional Medal posthumously in 2001. It was put on temporary exhibit at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, New York before being permanently installed on display at the White House.]
The Ten Life-Changing Skills You Can Learn From the Presidents
Through the last two hundred years, only forty-two men have held the highest office of the land. They must have had very special qualities in order to do so. What life changing messages can we learn from their experiences? From the lives of the presidents, we can learn some incredibly powerful messages.
Team-Building and Managing Difficult People: What the Presidents Can Teach You About Team Building and Resolving Conflicts
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan became presidents of our country at times of crisis. The key element that made them successful was their ability to meld their cabinets of diverse personalities into effective teams to carry out the policies of their administration.
Presidential Leadership: The Essence That Makes the Difference
What are the qualities of presidential leadership? What makes a president a great leader? The presidents were great leaders because they knew how to guide and to inspire us. These leadership qualities that we can learn are: possessing persistence like Lincoln, having resilience through education like Truman, demanding
excellence like Kennedy, having sympathy or compassion like Lincoln, informing people like Reagan the Great Communicator, being decisive like Grant the general, developing esteem like Franklin Roosevelt, having nerve or courage like Washington, practicing team leadership like Eisenhower, and finally sharing a vision like Thomas Jefferson. All these great presidents had these qualities as leaders that have transformed vision into reality. You, too, can learn to be the Chief Executive of your life.
George Walker Bush on Leadership
How to Think like a President: Making Tough Decisions Under Great Pressure
From the launching of our country to the present-day, presidents have always been under great pressure to make very important decisions under great pressure. Many times the fate and future of our country lies in the balance. Whether it was Jefferson's choice to buy the Louisiana Territory or Truman's idea to drop the Atomic Bomb, their determinations have had lasting impact on America. By studying the techniques they used to make their decisions, you can improve your own decision-making at home and at the office. This session will discuss George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan's decision-making techniques. Learn their principles of how they made decisions so that you can apply them in your life at home and at the office.
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