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Session: Opening Retreat: Launching the Leadership Journey
Goal: To introduce leadership concepts and build the class community
Objectives:Introduce concepts of leadership, including a historic perspective, the differences between leaders and managers, and the basis of servant leadership.
- Teach participants the application of the visioning process within community groups through:
- A.Timeline
- B.Strengths and challenges
- C.Multiple lenses – the big picture
- D.Mission
- E.Visualization
- F.Accountability
Define the concept of group dynamics and its impact on group processes
- Present the history of leaders in Greater Lafayette
- Begin the team building process and get to know each other
Outcome: Participants form a sense of community within the class and develop an understanding of leadership
Session: Leaders as Teachers
Goal: Understand how the roles of mentoring, coaching, and self awareness play into leadership
Objectives:
- Discover how to use our strengths to lead
- Understand how to lead up as well as down in an organization
- Explore how self awareness and emotional intelligence impacts leadership ability
- Introduce various tools to enhance leadership capacity and teamwork
- Discuss how leaders can mentor and be mentored in an organization
- Discuss the differences between generations and applications to communication and working together
Outcomes:
- Adopt a desire for lifelong self-learning and growth
- Understand some current (human development) tools available to leaders and how they are used in organizations
- Understand and embrace the role of teacher and mentor in team situations
- Gain an understanding of how to communicate across different generations
Session: Government and the Economy Today
Goal: To explore the roles of government and introduce awareness of economic development processes in the community
Objectives:
• To provide an opportunity to meet and talk with the current elected city and county officials
• To describe the role of economic development in the community
• To describe the role of government
• Describe changing the culture of government and that leadership needs to be persistent
• To gain insight into current challenges of community growth and development
• To provide information on becoming involved in public service
Outcomes:
• Prepare participants to become involved in community development through government and private sector organizations
• Prepare participants to exercise influence in the governance and economic development of the community
Session: Building Inclusive Communities
Goal: Understand how to be inclusive in the community and the workplace.
Objectives:
- Understand personal bias, including its origin and the role it plays in leadership
- Understand the value of diversity in groups and the leader’s role in fostering an inclusive environment
- Learn processes that encourage the achievement of inclusiveness
Outcomes:
- Learn to apply leadership principals toward building an inclusive organization and community
- Respect individual differences and identify avenues for inclusiveness within the community
Session: Ethics and Personal Mission
Goal: Gain an understanding of ethical leadership and to initiate development of a personal mission to guide community service and leadership
Objectives:
- Understand how personal and organizational values shape leadership
- Assist participants in defining ethics
- Engage in self-introspection and understanding our individual view of the world
- Engage in activities to apply ethics in the day-to-day
- Begin the preparation of a personal mission statement
- Prepare a list of your personal Board of Directors
Outcome:
- Increase awareness of and application of ethics and personal mission to leadership
Session: Nonprofit Board Leadership and Fundraising
Goal: To introduce and heighten awareness of responsibilities of non-profit board membership and fundraising
Objectives:
- To identify and define attributes of an effective board of directors and the process of board governance including legal and procedural roles
- To provide awareness of the challenges faced by board members and the necessary skills to meet those challenges
- To emphasize the fundraising role of boards of directors and methods of fund raising
Outcomes:
· To prepare individuals for the responsibilities of non-profit board membership
· How to approach different people when fundraising
Session: Coaching for Success:
Goal: To enhance participants’ leadership ability by providing coaching tools whereby they may influence and impact the overall performance of others within their organizations.
Objectives:
- Provide participants with a foundational background of coaching
- Ensure that participants understanding of the value coaching brings to organizations
- Equip participants with major components of coaching so that they may apply them in varying organizations.
- Provide an “in-class” platform on which participants may practice the use of some of the major components of coaching
Outcomes:
- Participants will understand the definition and value of coaching within organizations.
- Participants will be able to identify and approach various coaching opportunities in order to foster personal and professional development.
- Participants will be equipped with the skills to formally and informally coach.
Session: Issues in Human Services and Education Today
Goal: Gain an understanding of leadership and volunteer efforts needed to meet
community needs
Objectives:
- Gain an awareness of current issues facing community human services and education non-profit organizations
- Present an experiential awareness of services available to consumers of human services and education
- Gain an understanding of the role of volunteer leadership in community organizations, including how they interact with paid staff and other volunteers
Outcome:
- Participants are motivated to seek opportunities within community non-profits in which to apply their leadership skills
Session: Leadership and Engagement through Collaboration
Goal: Empower participants to identify opportunities for collaboration and
how to use the collaborative process.
Objectives:
• How to identify opportunities for collaboration
• Define the differences between collaboration and other problem solving
processes
• Define the framework for collaboration
• Describe and experience the roles, responsibilities and stages of the
collaborative process
• Practice the collaboration process
Outcomes:
• Enhance collaboration efforts and understand how to participate as a
contributor in a collaborative process.
- Understand how you lead from where you are in the collaborative process.
Session: Launching Your Community Service and Leadership
Goals: To reflect, debrief and share insights based on processes and skills learned through participation in Leadership Lafayette.
Objectives:
- To discuss the outcome of the team project and the group experience
- To identify opportunities to apply leadership skills to community and work settings.
- To describe and practice how to facilitate from the chair
- To provide information for connecting to community service opportunities
Outcome:
- Participants are empowered to take on leadership challenges in their community and work lives.
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