In an age where time and productivity are the most valuable assets of a company, effective workplace communication and cooperation have never been more important. Leadership Johnson County, a community leadership training program, has been developing and promoting professional and personal leadership throughout central Indiana since 1994. Over the last three decades, LJC has offered company workshops to businesses looking to create and maintain efficient and communicative working environments, an emphasis that has seemingly become essential in offices across the world.
To wrap up 2025 and ring in the new year, LJC is rolling out new programming and enhancing its services to further its mission in the community.
As an alternative to neutral site workshops or those taking place at LJC headquarters in New Whiteland, the Leadership to Your Door program offers on-site development workshops for companies looking to participate from the comfort of their home offices.
“People would come to our half-day workshops and they would say, ‘Oh man, this is really great, can you do that for us?’” Says Bea Northcott, Leadership to Your Door coordinator at LJC. “So that’s what we do now, we bring our leadership programs to businesses.”
Programming is personalized for each client company, with workshops covering a wide range of topics, focusing on personal and professional growth, communication and collaboration, leadership essentials, emotional intelligence and conflict resolution. It is with this vast array of expertise that LJC is able to offer unmatched services to local businesses looking to build a strong company culture.
“We work with the company to figure out what their goals are for their team,” Northcott says. “What are they trying to accomplish? What’s the best topic or topics for them? We can do a single workshop or we can do an entire series of workshops focusing on a different topic at each meeting. Just whatever the company needs.”
As companies further emphasize age diversity within the workplace, intergenerational communication has become a necessary point of interest for businesses aspiring for sustained productivity. LJC has identified the importance of instilling communication skills within the next generation of professionals, and offers modified and abbreviated leadership programming at high schools throughout the state.
“Leaders at the time who were interviewed said, ‘we have great leaders now, but we want to make sure we have great leaders in the future,’” Northcott adds. “It’s based upon our adult program, so the students learn about the community that they live in, learn how to be good citizens, and learn about leadership skills and their own leadership ability.”
Last summer, LJC expanded this youth initiative to include middle schoolers with their Bold Academy, a one-week summer camp that will pick back up with two camps next June. Bold Academy is a partnership with Endress+Hauser, an industrial equipment supplier in Greenwood, with the camp combining leadership, citizenship and the STEM fields. Collaboration and communication are emphasized at all levels of LJC programming, and expansion to generations of future professionals is a natural next step for the company.
“It’s important for you to know how you communicate,” Northcott says. “It’s also important for you to know how others communicate, so that you’re talking on the same level.”
Businesses interested in LJC’s services can contact Bea Northcott at 317-441-5295 and at bnorthcott@leadershipjohnsoncounty.org or can come to a half-day workshop at LJC’s offices in New Whiteland. Applications for LJC’s nine-month Signature Program are due March 4, 2026, and are available on the company’s website.
