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STEP UP to Leadership!
Johanna
Reed Adams
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Rural Sociology
and
State Community Leadership Development Extension Specialist
University of Missouri Extension
223 Gentry Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-7040
(573) 882-3978, (573) 882-5127 fax
http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/CommDev/
Miranda
C. Duncan
Community Development Specialist St. Louis County East Central Region
UMSL-Public Policy Research Center
University of Missouri-St. Louis
One University Blvd.
362 SSB Bldg.
St. Louis, MO 63121
(314) 516-6040, (314) 516-5268 fax
This is a 10 session series of modules designed by University of Missouri Extension and Missouri Association of Community Action Agencies to groom Community Action Agency Consumers to serve on a board of directors. It has application to a variety of audiences.
Curriculum that includes a facilitator’s manual and participant workbook is being piloted Summer of 2004. Roll out date is November, 2004.
Module topics include:
Session I. Come As You Are. Program orientation; the value of grass roots participation; understanding the hierarchy of human needs; diversity and teambuilding; self-awareness and empowerment.
Session II. Planning for Your Passion. Identifying your passion: What problem do you really care about, where do you want to make a difference, are you a champion for a particular cause? Setting goals and understanding community resource mapping. Participants will research the community’s resources that pertain to their passion. They’ll make a speech about their passion. They’ll learn to set goals so they can work effectively on their passion.)
Session III. All A-Board! Understanding the basics about nonprofit corporate boards; becoming familiar with other types of sub-group structures and governing bodies; roles and responsibilities for board members; officer duties; and board team tips.
Session IV. The Give and Take of Leadership. Social change leadership; civic responsibility; and keys to successful collaboration.
Session V. Conflict As Opportunity. Understanding dynamics of conflict to better transform it into opportunity – opportunities for clarifying issues, finding solutions, and building relationships; practicing negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
Session VI. Meeting Manners and Meeting Matters. The importance of meeting decorum, familiarity with parliamentary procedure and application to board business (motions, voting, minutes and budgets).
Session VII. GroupWork. Helpful hints about working informally in small groups; organizing informal meetings.
Session VIII. Speak Up! Speak Out! Tips for effective public speaking and practice in making short, speeches – planned and impromptu. (Planned speeches by participants’ passion are given at Graduation.)
Session IX. Digging Into Diversity. Awareness of differences; understanding how life experience influences us; and learning to bridge the barriers that tend to separate us.
Session
X. Graduation: Follow Your Passion. Celebrate success; participants will
speak to their passion; and identify how STEP Up to Leadership! worked
for them.
Format & Time Required:
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Each module is 2.5 hours in length.
North
Central Regional Center for Rural Development
Iowa State University
107 Curtiss Hall
Ames, IA 50011-1050
(515) 294-8321, (515) 294-3180 fax
For questions, comments or concerns about the NCRCRD Web site, contact
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Last updated August 31, 2004.