Leadership Montgomery County - Schedule & Group Projects
Program Projects
All participants within the program serve on a community-based project team. Project teams focus on either a community service project or in developing an open forum discussing a current issue in the region. Projects generally require additional time investments beyond the formal class time.
Many of the Forums are open to EMCCC members and to the general public. Check out the EMCCC online calendar for registration.
Call for Projects
Leadership Montgomery County’s (LMC’s) vision is to produce a highly capable, informed and engaged network of leaders serving Eastern Montgomery County. Individual participation in group projects - we call them Leadership Forums - is one way we build that capacity.
The goal of this Call for Projects is to solicit a range of project choice options for our 3-5 person Leadership Forum project teams. Project proposals are being sought from anyone in the Eastern Montgomery County region that may be interested in submitting a project idea. Our ideal projects should:
* Be regional in nature, spanning the Eastern Montgomery County area,
* Ask for collaboration from LMC’s four different stakeholder groups – nonprofits, business, government, and education,
* Be able to be completed before May 15, 2010, and
* Have a collaborating organization and a primary contact person that the Leadership Forum project team can work with. A collaborating organization is an organization that is either served by the successful completion of the project and/or is an active partner in moving the project idea forward.
2009 Projects/Forums
* January 29 Forum: WebAGE - This team’s focus is on expanding both online and hard copy resources of all aging services in Eastern Montgomery County.
* March 12 Forum: Get Connected - Working in conjunction with Abington School District, the team’s goal is to provide eleventh grade students identified as lower income/disadvantaged with access to the internet through donated computers.
* April 23 Forum: Keeping the Small Town Feel as We Plan: How to Proceed and Succeed - This team is bringing stakeholders together to learn and share how to keep the small town feel as our communities grow and develop.
* May 14 Forum: Eastern Montco Community Calendar – This goal of this team is to harness community energy to create a comprehensive calendar for avoiding conflicts in scheduling major events in the region.
* May 17 Forum: Green Wheels - Collaborating with Briar Bush Nature Center, this team is promoting bicycling as a form of local transportation.
2010-2011 Advanced Leadership Workshops
* December 3: Victim, Survivor or Navigator: Choosing a Response to Workplace Change, Dr. Richard McKnight
* February 4: Abstract to Concrete: Using Visual Strategies to Better Communicate Change, Innovation and Other Complex Messages, Paul Hilt
* March 4: Survival Tactics in a Tough Economy - Tapping into the Power of Your MBTI Type, Cynthia Stengel Paris
* April 1: Stephen Covey's Seven Habits -- Plus One! Ray Wells, PhD and Margie Marron
* April 29: How High is Your EQ? Success through Emotional and Social Intelligence, Dr. Felice Tilin
LMC ~ Session Schedule 2010-2011
Eleven sessions are on Thursday, two sessions are on Friday, one is on Wednesday
8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Basilian Spirituality Center adjacent to Manor College
September 10 (Friday) ~ Program Launch
~ Program goals. Orientation to strength-based philosophy. Paired interviews. Personal posters. "Celebrate what's right with the world" video. Setup interviews with community leaders. Take home: online assessment of the MBTI Step 2.
September 30 ~ Understanding your Leadership and Teaming Style – the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
~ Introduce 2-minute elevator speeches. Develop program expectations. MBTI Step 2 theory and exercises. Type as it relates to communicating, making decisions, managing change, and managing conflict. MBTI resources.
October 14 ~ Leadership Forum Team Launch
~ Share and map outcomes of interviews with community leaders. Review Forum goals. Formation of Leadership Forum teams. Meet and “adopt” team advisors.
November 4 ~ Successful Project Leadership
~ Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model. Basic project management skills. Stakeholder analysis. Establishing milestones. Developing planning timelines. Responsibility charting. Team planning.
November 18 ~ Managerial Leadership: Delegating for Development
~ The Empowerment Formula. Managing the monkey. Situational leadership. How to lead different MBTI “types.” Team planning. Take home: on-line assessment of the Gallup Strengthsfinder®.
December 10 (Friday) ~ Enhancing Your Ability to Lead: Identifying, Understanding and Applying Your Five Core Strengths
~ Guest presenter Paul Hilt. Strengths theory. Your five signature strengths themes and their relationship to each other. Applying knowledge of strengths to future. Team planning.
January 13 ~ Strengths-Based Leadership: Positive Approaches for Outstanding Performance
~ Positive leadership. The business case for a strengths-based approach. Developing the “appreciative eye.” Strengths spotting. Tracking and fanning. Using strengths to build high performing teams. Team planning.
January 27 ~ Difference as Strength: Leading in the Multicultural Workplace and Successful Leadership for Nonprofit Boards
~ Mid-year program evaluation. The experience of culture difference. Impact of culture on world view. Successful communication and leadership in a diverse world.
February 17 ~ Leadership Forum 1
March 10 ~Leadership Forum 2
March 31 ~ Leadership Forum 3
April 20 (Wednesday) ~Leadership Forum 4
May 12 ~ Leadership Forum 5
June 2 ~ Wrap-up Session and Graduation (Arcadia University)
~ Program evaluation. Your leadership legacy. Graduation ceremony with featured speaker, your own guest, alumni, and program supporters and advisors.
Program Projects from Prior Years
2008 Projects
* Forum: Regional Demographics Trends – Aging, ethnic diversity and economics of Eastern Montgomery County were the focus for this team’s work.
* Forum: Development of the 611 Corridor – This team designed an interactive program that drew people from county government and a half dozen townships to talk about history, plans, and hopes for the future of the 611 corridor.
* Community Service Project: Going Green Beautifully - This team worked with 2nd graders of the Highland Elementary School (Abington School District) to build a butterfly garden on the grounds of the school.
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