iKAN

iKAN 2025 Leadership and Advocacy Training

KSHA is excited to offer this free, four-part, leadership and advocacy training to its members. Earn continuing education hours while developing leadership skills to become an advocate for your profession and those you serve. Deadline to apply is February 1, 2025. KSHA will select up to 30 members to participate.

Participants will identify their leadership style, focus on specific skills for developing advocacy action plans and how to best implement and manage an advocacy action plan.

Those selected will participate in their first meeting at the 2025 Convention, on Thursday February 27, 2025, from 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm. The cohort will then meet virtually three times throughout the year to develop their leadership and advocacy skills. Anyone who has not previously participated in the iKAN program is eligible to apply.

Log into the member center to apply:
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iKAN 2024 Leadership and Advocacy Training

KSHA is excited to offer this free, three-part, online leadership and advocacy training to its members.  Earn continuing education hours while developing leadership skills to become an advocate for your profession and those you serve.  Each part of this training series is one hour, for a possible total of three hours or 0.3 ASHA CEUs.

Coty Back of Greater Potential Leadership will guide participants in identifying their leadership style, focus on specific skills for developing advocacy action plans, and how to best implement and manage an advocacy action plan.

You are encouraged to register and attend all three parts of the iKAN training.  Those completing all three sessions will be recognized at the 2025 Convention.

Registration and Fee

To attend, you must register separately for each of the 3 meetings.  Use the link below each session description to register. This leadership and advocacy training is free to all KSHA members.

Presenter Information and Disclosure

Coty Back is the co-founder of Greater Potential Leadership, which is dedicated to helping individuals, teams, and organizations unleash their potential.  Coty is passionate about intentionally developing those around him and helping them to fulfill their purpose.

Disclosure

Relevant Financial Relationships:  Coty Back is a paid employee of the National FFA Organization and the owner of Greater Potential Leadership and will be referencing actual case studies from these organizations. He will be paid by the Kentucky Speech Language Hearing Association for his presentation.

Relevant Non-financial Relationships:  Mr. Back has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.

• 2024 iKAN Training, Part 1, May 16, 2024 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
  

  Abstract

  This session will focus on developing leadership skills to become a local advocate and provide members with information to identify leadership styles and focus on specific skills for their advocacy action plans.  The session will assist members in identifying their leadership style, areas for growth, and how to implement that into their current advocacy action plans. Members will also share current stages of their action plan and receive feedback from the advocacy network.

  Learner Outcomes

  At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and describe different leadership styles.
  • Describe how leadership personality can be utilized to improve local advocacy efforts.
  • Identify and list strategies that they can put into action for local advocacy efforts.

  Time Ordered Agenda

  6:30 pm – 6:40 pm: Introduction to iKAN and personality testing
  6:40 pm – 7:00 pm: Leadership Development

  • Members will review the results of their leadership personality test
  • Members will receive training and participate in discussion of how each leadership personality can be utilized in advocacy efforts
  • Members will be provided with ideas for action planning based on current leadership personality and areas for growth.

  7:00 pm – 7:20 pm: Membership Discussion of Action Plans

  • Members of the blue group will share the current status of their action plans, what they have learned so far, strategies they are going to utilize during the next phase of action planning and receive feedback from members of the advocacy network.

  7:20 pm  – 7:30 pm: Part 1 Summary, Questions

  Continuing Education

  

Log into the member center to register:
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• 2024 iKAN Training, Part 2, August 8, 2024 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
  

  Abstract

  This session will focus on developing leadership skills of the participant and discuss current national advocacy efforts in the field of communication disorders.  This session will assist members in identifying ways they can advocate nationally for our profession and how to implement that into their current advocacy action plans. Members will also share current stages of their action plan and receive feedback from the advocacy network.

  Learner Outcomes

  At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Identify current national level advocacy efforts of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
  • Identify and describe their advocacy styles and how they can use that for personal branding.
  • Identify strategies to advocate for the profession at the national level.

  Time Ordered Agenda

  6:30 pm – 6:40 pm: Introduction and Review Part 1

  6:40 pm – 7:00 pm: Leadership Development

  • Review advocacy styles
  • Training and discussion of how they can utilize their advocacy style to create a framework for personal and professional decision-making and develop a personal brand
  • Action planning
  • Review resources available through ASHA for advocacy

  7:00 pm – 7:20 pm: Membership Discussion of Action Plans

  • Members of the group will share their ideas for action plans, strategies they might utilize during the next phase of action planning and receive feedback from members of the advocacy network.

  7:20 pm – 7:30 pm: Part 2 Review and Questions.

  Continuing Education

  

Log into the member center to register:
Member Center


• 2024 iKAN Training, Part 3, November 7, 2024 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
  

  Abstract

  This session will focus on developing leadership skills of the participants and developing advocacy techniques for effective communication with state, local and federal policymakers.  Members will hear about ASHA advocacy efforts and the effect on local and state organizations/members. Members will also share current stages of their action plan and receive feedback from the advocacy network.

  Learner Outcomes

  At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and describe e-advocacy tools (e.g., ASHA’s Take Action, Kentucky Bill Watch, etc.).
  • Identify and explain advocacy techniques for effective communication with stakeholders.
  • Describe strategies for their action plan to advocate for the profession at the local and state level.

  Time Ordered Agenda

  6:30 pm – 7:10 pm: Leadership Development

  • Members will review advocacy styles
  • Members will receive training and participate in discussion of how they can utilize their advocacy style to create a framework for personal and professional decision-making and develop a personal brand
  • Members will be provided with ideas for action planning
  • Members will receive resources available through ASHA for advocacy

  7:10 pm – 7:25 pm: Membership Discussion of Action Plans

  • Members of the group will share the current status of their action plans, what they have learned, strategies they are going to utilize during the next phase of action planning and receive feedback from members of the advocacy network.

  7:25 pm – 7:30 pm: Review and Questions

  Continuing Education

  

Log into the member center to register:
Member Center