ECS likes to stay busy making a difference and leaving a lasting impact for its clients. The schedule (right) is what we will be doing over the next few months.
February 17, 2025
GENERAL EXACAVATING SAFETY DAY
Lincoln, Nebraska
March 2025
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA DENTAL COLLEGE
Lincoln, Nebraska
March 17, 2025
2025 NEBRASKA MUNICIPAL CLERK INSTITUTE AND ACADEMY
South Sioux City, Nebraska
March 20, 2025
LINCOLN HOUSING AUTHORITY TRAINING SUMMITT
Lincoln, Nebraska
April 15, 2025
CONTINUUM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Lincoln, Nebraska
Call us about a program that helps people to listen and learn from one another. Programs like: “FINDING COMMON GROUND,” “NO LONGER STRANGERS,” “CREATING AN INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY,” “BEING AN INCLUSIVE LEADER,” “HOW TO HAVE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS AND SO MUCH MORE!
We offer programs from 60 minutes to a full day, as well as company retreats and train the trainer.
Encouragement Consulting Services is a national full service program consulting, program development, workshop facilitation and management coaching company founded by John Leonard Harris (M.Ed., SHRM, HRAM) that specializes in professional development programs (leadership, conflict resolution, organizational effectiveness, corporate culture, and diversity) for educational, corporate, religious, community and civic organizations.
What program participants say about us and what we do.
“Great job! I’m glad it was more of a discussion than a workshop. The program exceeded my expectations and that the workshop addressed issues of diversity which are more than race, gender and religion. It challenged notions of what was and wasn’t diversity.”
“Great presenter and presentation! Bring him back again! John Harris is an excellent speaker who strives to reach out to the audience with humor, thought-provoking information and a desire for clear understanding on delicate issues. He was very good at getting the audience to open up and speak.”
“The best workshop ever! What a great presenter. I’m guessing Mr. Harris could give a workshop on paperclips and keep our attention! Great speaker and very informational. Let’s have him back again!”
“Excellent! The most involvement I’ve seen in a workshop in a long time. Great facilitator-good choice! The workshop left me with a sense of rejuvenation, optimism and energized me to enjoy and do an even better job.”
Encouragement Consulting Services was created to help organizations reach their goals
while creating a workplace culture where employees can thrive. We listen to our clients and tailor our programs to meet their unique needs. We believe and proclaim that a company’s employees are its greatest resource and that it is vital that they know it.
ECS does more than just provide educational and training programs. We seek to remove the systemic barriers that hinder progress and stop employees from being the best that they can be. We want people to think, talk, listen, understand and then to act accordingly.
Program topics include:
Finding Common Ground
Being an Inclusive Leader
Understanding Social
Style
More Than a Job: Finding
the Worth in Your Work
Conflict: BRING IT ON!
Bridging Generation Gaps
How to Have Difficult
Conversations
Experiencing Positive
Change
Abstracts available upon request
John Leonard Harris is a certified Social Style trainer.
John Leonard Harris is back and better than ever. He worked for nearly a decade as the Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Student Activities Advisor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has been an advocate and a resource for student success.
Topics in his college series include:
“The Real Reason for College”
“College Survival 101”
“Being an Inclusive Leader”
“Diversity: Finding Common Ground”
“No Longer Strangers: The Cultural Journey from Stranger to Familiar”
“Engaging Excellence in Leadership”
“Motivation in Your Life”
“More Than a Job: Pursuing Your Passion”
Also for student organizations:
“Running Effective Meetings”
“Achieving Mission Impossible”
“Programming for Life: Maximizing the Experience for the Acts you Bring to Campus”
“Maximizing the Potential of Black Greek Organizations”
John Leonard Harris has revised his popular program celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Thrusted into the Movement” is an exciting new take on his King experience.
In this presentation John Leonard Harris walks the audience through the unbelievable experience of getting a copy of the original Dr. King speech. The presentation explores: the thrill of listening to the voice of one of the nation’s greatest leaders and how it impacted him.
It is John’s desire that those who hear his story will be impacted by the lessons he learned from Dr. King (and many others) and understand their responsibility as a champion of justice.
John Leonard Harris speaking at Benedictine College in a presentation about the legacy of Dr. King and “finding common ground.”
To read about the presentation and to view it, click on the image above, or copy and paste the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=674882773453618
John Leonard Harris shares the difference between COMMITMENT and CONVICTION in this portion of his Dr. King speech at the University of Minnesota-Morris.
Click on the image to hear the video
John loves to make learning fun! Check out these short video vignettes he calls, “What’s Great About Culture!”
See the videos using the LinkedIn links below:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnleonardharris_i-love-to-make-learning-fun-heres-an-example-activity-7274236273215582208-5xnF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnleonardharris_i-love-to-make-learning-fun-heres-an-example-activity-7272394966692171776-3J3f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnleonardharris_i-love-to-make-learning-fun-heres-an-experience-activity-7265432730845274112-pQwN?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Check out Practical Wisdom!
Practical Wisdom is a compilation of the quotes that have impacted John Leonard Harris’ life. Each bit of practical wisdom has a lesson that Mr. Harris has learned and he desires that you might be impacted by them as well. Each quote provides the reader with the opportunity to REFLECT, REACT and RESPOND. The hope is that each reader will find “helpful nuggets” that will transform their life.
Help
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Contact
402-309-9411
John Leonard Harris, M.Ed.
Founder and Principal Consultant
P. O. Box 84734
Lincoln, NE 68501
