Margie Thomas

CEO/President M.A.T. Consulting, Inc.

  • Lebanon IN

Taming the Chaos in Your Organization to improve productivity and employee moral.

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Biography

As President of M.A.T. Consulting, Margie combines her management experience (since 1983) with her experience in training and facilitation (since 1993) to help organizations learn how to tame the chaos. Drawing from her degrees in Biology and Chemistry from Indiana University, she continues to study and work with the complex scientific processes of communications that make organizations thrive.

You will receive a personalized, strategic process and specific communications techniques to enhance leadership skills and job performance. Margie offers a variety of venues to learn her tools including conference keynotes, full-day seminars, workshops, executive retreats, on-site consultation and resource learning products
She is a contributing author of the book is titled Real World Team Building Strategies that Work.

Quick Facts About Margie:
• Is one of less than 400 individuals worldwide that has received the Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) designation from the International Association of Facilitators (IAF).
• Earned her Certified Training Consultant (CTC) from Ball State University.
• Authorized as a Myers Briggs Type Indicator Trainer and is an Inscape Publishing trainer and distributor.
• Certified Women Business Enterprise.
• Facilitated a multi-agency State of Indiana team that developed and implemented a Small Purchase Process.
• Communication and team skills trainer in government, manufacturing, not-for-profit, insurance, pharmaceutical, and other industries.
• Consulted, facilitated, and trained the City of Indianapolis’ Division of Compliance (now the Department of Code Enforcement) from 2002-2009 in implementing their “Service Delivery Plan”, reorganizing , and other improvement activities.
• Is a graduate of Indiana University with a double BA in Biology and Chemistry.
• Was a member of the National Speaker Association and served in a variety of capacities at the national level and is a past President of the Indiana Chapter

Industry Expertise

Management Consulting
Training and Development
Corporate Leadership
Professional Training and Coaching

Areas of Expertise

How to Work With Angry People
Myers Briggs Type Indicator
Personal Listening Profile
Team Development
Disc Profile
Consultative Approach to Problem Solving
Facilitator Skills for Managers and Team Leaders

Accomplishments

Best In Class 2009 - PCMA

PCMA has identified top presenters from our 2009 Annual Meeting to be included in the Best in Class Program.

Mrs. Boone County

An award presented annually to a women in Boone County, IN, for their continued volunteer service to the community.

Environmental Impact Award - Indiana Department of Environmental Management

For participation in the Operation Planning Task Force Program.

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Education

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Double BA

Biology and Chemistry

1981

Affiliations

  • SGMP
  • NACG

Event Appearances

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State Farm - Fall Planning Meeting (Northern Indiana)  Indiana

2005-11-10

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Strategic Planning - Pink Ribbon Connection   Indianapolis, IN

2009-11-24

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MBTI Training  San Antonio, TX

2008-07-22

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Sample Talks

How to Work With Angry People

Working With Angry People is a training program that provides you with the essential information and skills needed to help you deal with conflict in your personal and professional life.

This program will help you respond to anger in others, especially when it's directed personally. You will understand how to manage your own anger, and you will learn to recognize and deal with someone who challenges a value such as fairness, trust, integrity, etc.

You will also learn what to do when someone sees the facts differently than you. And finally, you will gain a basic understanding of how to manage conflict in others when you are in a third party role.

Working With Angry People is designed for you to actively participate with your peers in the training workshop. This training program encourages you to improve your knowledge and skills by integrating your work-related situations into the workshop.

Learning Objectives:
* Working With an Angry Person.
* Identifying Poor Responses to Anger.
* Managing Your Own Emotions.
* Using Key Listening Acknowledgments.
* Dealing with Challenges to Values.
* Resolving Differences in Facts.
* Managing Conflict in a Third Party Role.

How to Deal With Conflict in Your Changing Environment

Conflict is normal. This workshop provides a forum for participants to see through the fear, anger, and frustration of conflict to the opportunities and potential for constructive outcomes. The powerful Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) model demonstrates that conflict-handling behaviors are neither good nor bad. Rather, conflict resolution is simply a matter of expanding skill sets and choosing the most effective conflict mode for a particular situation.

The forced-choice, self-scorable TKI inventory provides individual information about one's conflict-handling style compared to five distinct modes:
* Competing
* Avoiding
* Compromising
* Collaborating
* Accommodating

L earning Objectives:
* Identify the 5 different modes for dealing with conflict. Participants learn which is their prefered mode and when it might not be effect.
* Learn the skills and approaches involved with each mode. Develop an awareness of the conflict modes of others.
* How to choose the mode to fit the situation. Assess the conflict situation and choose the appropriate mode.

Listen Up! Your Focus Could Be Costing You

Good communication is one of the most valued skills in the workplace. And effective listening is crucial to communicating productivity inside the organization and meeting the competitive challenges outside the organization. The Personal Listening Profileï¾® helps people become active, purposeful listeners in wide variety of situation for more productive communication.

It is estimated that people screen out or change the intended purpose of what they hear in over 70% of all communications. The biggest factor contributing to such miscommunication is our listening approach.

Objectives:
* Learn how different listening approaches impact listening and communication effectiveness.

* Improve your ability to understand the purpose of different communications styles and use the listening approach appropriate to the situation.

* Overcome listening barriers and capitalize on your listening strengths.

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Style

Availability

  • Keynote
  • Panelist
  • Workshop Leader
  • Author Appearance

Fees

$3500 to $5000*Will consider certain engagements for no fee