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Leadership Albert Lea A Community Based Leadership ProgramLeadership ProspectusWhat: A leadership program designed to enable candidates to learn about Albert Lea/Freeborn County resources, values, strengths, weaknesses, and challenges. A learning experience geared toward providing an intense look at the business community, politics, education, quality of life, health care, human services, law, media, diversity, and/or other topics inherent in our community. This program will provide opportunities for candidates to exchange ideas, build networks and begin the process of identifying and solving important community issues.Who: A pool of candidates who will be selected through a competitive process and who are current or prospective leaders in the community of Albert Lea/Freeborn County. Candidates are drawn from business, industry, education, public and private agencies, civic groups, and virtually all other facets of the professional community. Class size will be limited. Program Development: A Chamber-designated ?Leadership Steering Committee? oversees the development of the LEADERSHIP Program. Riverland Community College and the Chamber will assist with individual seminar curriculum development in cooperation with designated day-leaders. Where: This localized program was designed by the Albert Lea / Freeborn County Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with Riverland Community College and its Training and Development Department. All sessions are facilitated locally and focus on topics directly affecting our community. Seminars are held at a different location each session. Why: To develop candidate knowledge and understanding of our community ? its complexities and its potential. To provide an opportunity for participants to meet and exchange ideas with each other and current community leaders. The intent is to motivate and encourage participants to assume individual leadership roles in community affairs. How: A series of intense thematic seminars held over a nine-month period and conducted by local, regional, and nationally known professionals. The bulk of the instructional staff is drawn from volunteers in the Albert Lea/ Freeborn County community. Cost: $650.00 - Tuition is payable at the time a participant is accepted to candidacy. Scholarship opportunities are available. When: Monthly sessions run August through June on the third Tuesday of each month. A closing work session and graduation program is held in June. Attendance and Meeting DatesLEADERSHIP requires a serious commitment of time and energy. Candidates meet for a full day each month, meeting August through June. Attendance at the work sessions and all day program meetings is imperative. Class participants are expected to attend all sessions with the exception of an extreme emergency or illness. Any sessions missed must be made up the following year in order for a participant to graduate from the program.What is Leadership?LEADERSHIP offers an annual community education and development program designed to provide an ongoing source of motivated leaders informed about the community and its issues. Participants become better prepared for decision-making positions for a wide variety of local groups and institutions and more effective employees in the workplace. Its purpose is to:
The ProgramLEADERSHIP is aimed at all qualified individuals who actively participate in community roles and have a desire to increase their community involvement in order to assume present and future leadership roles.LEADERSHIP builds civic awareness, leadership skills, and helps develop relationships to better connect individuals to the community. The ten-month program begins with a social in August, followed by a series of all-day monthly sessions. The June session concludes with a graduation program. Curriculum topics include:
ParticipantsUp to twenty people are selected to participate in the year's LEADERSHIP program. There is no age limit, and anyone may apply who is a resident of Albert Lea or Freeborn County. Participants are selected on their individual merits by a selection committee in a competitive admission process.The selection committee places great importance on the information furnished in the applications. All candidate nominations will be accepted through the Albert Lea-Freeborn County Chamber of Commerce. The class selection process seeks individuals from a cross-section of the community with different backgrounds to reflect Albert Lea and Freeborn County?s educational, political, social, and cultural diversity.
Application and TuitionDownload ApplicationApplications for this year's program will be accepted through June 1, 2008. Official applications should be returned to: LEADERSHIP Riverland Community College Training & Development 2200 Riverland Drive Albert Lea, MN 56007 This program is approved as a 2 credit course: SMGT1020 |
