- Knox Campbell, Program Director, River’s Way, Bluff City, TN; Attended the Process Facilitation Seminar

- Leigh Carruth, Group Facilitator, Sugar Grove, NC; Attended the Process Facilitation Seminar.

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- Jason Moore, Head Soccer Coach, Bethel College, North Newton, KS; Attended the Process Facilitation Seminar.

“This class (PCM Core Competency Training) would be beneficial for any
company. Educators would be so much more empowered by it. It should be a
pre-requisite for all teaching licenses and certificates!”
- Destiny LaBonte, Senior Buyer, Kasa Fab, Salina, KS

NE CORNER
Communication training builds a competitive advantage. Engaging your
employees during a recession and making them part of the solution can be a
measurable, competitive advantage, now, and when things turn around. Read
our most recent blog post and comment if you’d like.  – NGR

NE-OS RESEARCH UPDATE
Thank you to all the organizations and individuals who have joined us as
research partners in the validation of the NE-OS.  We have been
overwhelmed by the support and enthusiasm.  Tracking program outcomes is
vital to business success and we are eagerly anticipating the launch of our
final product this summer.  Stay tuned for updates.  – NGR

PCM NUGGET
Do you want a competitive advantage?
Win a 15% discount off any NE seminar!

From a PCM perspective meeting psychological needs and staying in channel
gives you the ability to communicate, hence a competitive edge. Only about
10% of most interactions qualify as effective communication. In most
processes and systems, we would never tolerate 90% inefficiency! What type
of competitive edge would you have if you stayed in channel and met
psychological needs 20% of the time, or even 30% of the time?  Not only
would that give you an edge, it would save time, money and resources.  And
the best part, when you go home at the end of the day, you would still have
energy left!

Here is a quiz.  Identify which personality type would prefer each of the
following PSYCHOLOGICAL NEED’s.  Be the first one to e-mail
Michele@next-element.com with the answers and get 15% off any 2010 NE
seminar (excluding PCM Trainer Certification), or personal coaching.

1. Work in your office by yourself today from 1 to 5 and complete those
reports.
2. It is so nice to see you today.
3. If you get that project done, go home early.
4. Dude, you da man!
5. I really value your commitment to this organization.
6. Your hard work is noticed and appreciated.

PEOPLE WE RECOMMEND
While working in Michigan last month, we were privileged to be led through a
great team-building experience by Tracy Weber, an equine assisted learning
(ELA) facilitator and owner of Kaleidoscope Learning Circle.  Challenging
our stereotypes and guiding us into new territory with each other, the
experience with Tracy, her team, and her horses, was a powerful learning and
growth journey for us.  We would encourage any team to try it.  Tracy and
her team are passionate, committed, insightful, and supremely competent in
their work. Thank you KLC team!

UPCOMING EVENTS
How did Jeff reduce couples counseling from 18 months to 6 sessions
while improving success? Take advantage of this one-day seminar to learn and
apply these strategies to your relationship: Relate to Your Mate Seminar
– April 17, 2010

PCM® Trainer Certification – April 26 – 30, 2010

Leadership Communication Seminar – May 11, 2010

Process Parenting Seminar – June 12, 2010

PCM® Core Competency Training – June 14 – 16, 2010

Advanced PCM® Conflict Resolution Seminar – June 17 – 18, 2010

NEXT-ELEMENT.COM
We’ve recently updated our website. We invite you to visit, look around,
listen to the narrated slide show on our homepage. Also, we’ve added a page on our About tab about our philosophy.  If you have been a client of ours, we invite you to
comment on this philosophy.  Have we lived up to our promise?

WHERE WE’LL BE
The 2010 Process Communication in Education Conference will be held August
8-10, 2010 on the campus of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant,
Michigan.  We’ll provide more information as it becomes available.  If you’re
interested in presenting, let us know!

BOOK RECOMMENDATION
I am reading “Switch, How to Change When Change is Hard,” by Chip & Dan
Heath.  I will be reviewing this book in April. I will also be posting a
blog on each chapter, so check our website blog often!  I have read the
first chapter, it’s great and a blog post is soon to come! -JK

HOT WING UPDATE
Amber Burkhardt-Sidebottom, from Kaleidescope Learning Center, joined Jamie
and Michele to show their approval of the delicious wings at the
Frankenmuth Brewery, Frankenmuth, MI.  We rated them a solid 4.

(Send us your review’s and pix!  Refer to our
rating scale on our website resources page.)

CONNECT WITH US
FOLLOW US on Twitter and Facebook – then, keep an eye out for periodic
limited time opportunities to SAVE BIG on our seminars and services! We’ll
also be incorporating Process Man into our promotions – ready to have some
fun?
Jamie www.linkedin.com/in/jamieremsberg
Jeff  www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreylgking
Nate  www.linkedin.com/in/nateregier
Facebook
Twitter

“Tools for the Process Age”

“What is so remarkable to me about the PCM model is that it has such
concrete, measurable ways to implement what was learned during the training
– I can immediately and directly apply it to life. After just three days of
training, I have the tools that I need to enhance my communication skills as well as to objectively evaluate my success in connecting with others. Now I can spend the rest of my life learning how to use them.”
- Sarah Gillespie, Challenge Course Specialist, Challenge Options, Oskaloosa, KS

NE CORNER
Q. What is the Process Age and why did Next Element get to “name it?”

A. We are entering an era of global connectedness and immense capacity for
greatness or destruction. In this era, inspiration comes when relationships
and communication are at the center, metrics inform methods, substance and
style cooperate, diversity is leveraged, and effectiveness is the goal.
We’ve named this the Process Age because the tools for success are about
process, not content. Next Element has tools for the Process Age. – NGR

NE-OS RESEARCH UPDATE
The Next Element Outcomes System (NE-OS) is currently undergoing the next
phase of research – criterion and discriminant validity, internal
consistency, and test-retest reliability. We are grateful to our worldwide
team of research partners. From New Zealand to France, Romania to Germany,
North Carolina to California, the data is trickling in. Stay tuned or visit
our website for updates! – NGR

PCM NUGGET
Whether it is being on an adventure course or facilitating an important
discussion, things begin to change the longer we are outside our comfort
zone.  Read our blog post, “Moving Outside the Comfort Zone” by Jamie.
Learn how to recognize distress and how it can undermine our ability to
discover solutions to the problems we face.

MISCELLANY
Jamie enjoyed connecting with old friends and making new ones at the ETDA
(Experiential Training and Development Alliance) annual Summit in December.

Tracy Weber of Kaleidoscope Learning Circle, Michigan; our Jamie; Sylvia Dresser, ACCT Executive Director, Illinois.

WHERE WE’LL BE
The Next Element team will be presenting at the ACCT (Association for
Challenge Course Technology) Annual Conference Feb. 4 – 7, 2010 in Atlanta.
We hope to see you there.

Feb. 17 Nate and Jeff are presenting “The Socially Intelligent Leader” for
the monthly educational seminar at Wichita Independent Business
Association.  For details or to sign up, visit www.wiba.org.

Mid-February will find us in Frankenmuth, Michigan – brrrrr!!  We are very
grateful for our friends and collegues, Tracy Weber and Randy Bierlein who
are hosting a PCM seminar for some of their associates.  Tracy is also
graciously sharing her team-building services with us.  Even though it will
surely be cold, our hearts are warmed by their generosity.

UPCOMING EVENTS
PCM® Core Competency Training – February 22 – 24, 2010
Advanced PCM® Conflict Resolution Seminar – February 25 – 26, 2010
Process Facilitation Seminar – March 8 – 10, 2010
Facilitating Self-Efficacy – March 11 – 12, 2010
Relate to Your Mate Seminar – April 17, 2010
PCM® Trainer Certification – April 26 – 30, 2010

WHITE PAPER
Random vs. The Peter Principle, or not.  Why don’t competent employees
flourish when promoted?  Read this WhitePaper on our website for some
thoughts on how to improve employee promotion practices. -JK

CONNECT WITH US
FOLLOW US on Twitter and Facebook – then, keep an eye out for periodic
limited time opportunities to SAVE BIG on our seminars and services! We’ll
also be incorporating Process Man into our promotions – ready to have some
fun?
LINKEDIN
Jamie www.linkedin.com/in/jamieremsberg
Jeff www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreylgking
Nate www.linkedin.com/in/nateregier
Facebook
Twitter

Brothers Paul and Abe Regier at Iron Starr in Norman, Oklahoma.

HOT WING UPDATE
IRON STARR (Norman, OK) I gave their hot wings 4 stars. Sauced in the
traditional-style, they packed a heat that crept up on you leaving the lips
warm. The dipping sauce had big chunks of blue cheese, and they weren’t
skimpy on the celery which was nice to mop up the extra sauce. Happy hour
priced at .25/ piece, the wings are offered in barbecue and hot flavors.
Added bonus- they have good Oklahoma microbrews on tap, and awesome ribs
which would get a 4.5 if you had a rib scale.  – submitted by Abe Regier

(Send us your review’s and pix!  Refer to our
rating scale on our Resources page.)