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Leadership Reno County Wrap Up 2017

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I’m blessed by my church to be freed up to serve our community through a program called Leadership Reno County.  It’s a program of the local Chamber of Commerce and we use a curriculum from the Kansas Leadership Center.

This year’s program ends tonight with a Graduation ceremony at the Crazy Horse Sports Club & Golf Course (formerly known as the Highlands).  We’ll also have KLC CEO & President Ed O’Malley as our guest speaker.  We’ve had a great year helping our participants learn about leadership and make progress on issues they care about.  Tonight will be a good ending to this experience.

Further, if you’re in a position to donate, we’d love to have you participate in the LRC Go Fund Me campaign which helps raise scholarship monies for future participants.

Monday Leadership Email – Progress In The Board Room

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Each week, I write an email to alumni of the Leadership Reno County program (which I also help facilitate).  Today’s email got at how progress can be made in meetings that seem to be stuck.  You can read the post, but here’s a quick summary:

  1. Begin with diagnosis.
  2. Look inward.
  3. Aim high.
  4. Play.

I hope it encourages you to engage in acts of leadership for the good of those around you.

 

LRC 2016 Wraps Up Today

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I wrote an email to the alumni of Leadership Reno County explaining all the different ways they can connect to our program.  I love this program.

The backstory is that in 2010 I didn’t know what was happening in the community in which I pastor.  I was in a meeting with other pastors and was shocked to hear about some big issues plaguing our community.  I knew I had to do something.

So, I used the Leadership Reno County experience as a time to learn and refocus on the community in which I live and serve.

Fast forward to today and I get the privilege of serving as a facilitator of this program.  We are working for the common good of Reno County by trying to do something about the leadership behaviors of people.  I love this work.  We wrap up another class today.  There’s a celebration tonight of this group.

Leadership is an activity, not a position.  I’m hoping I continue to model and live this reality out through our local community leadership program.

Leadership Reno County 2016 Begins Today

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I’m privileged to serve as a facilitator with Leadership Reno County, a program of the Hutchinson/Reno County Chamber of Commerce.  Today, a new leadership journey begins for a group of our program participants.  Right about now, they are starting to get oriented to the big problems our community is facing, how we can think about them differently, and how we can act or behave in ways that might help us make progress in these areas.  If you’d like more info on the type of curriculum we use to develop people who engage in acts of leadership, check out the many resources at the Kansas Leadership Center.