Components of Leadership Victoria’s Core Program for 2011-2012
The Core Program has six components:
Opening Retreat
(Mid-to-late September; Friday morning to Sunday afternoon) for participants to:
- Learn about the overall LV program, which includes:
- experiential Community Learning Days;
- personal leadership skill development;
- team development and coaching;
- mentoring; and,
- team-led-and-developed community-based projects.
- Explore personal values and leadership skills.
- Begin to develop a personal plan to enhance skills.
- Develop a community network of learning, leadership and support with fellow participants.
- Engage in community issues and challenges specific to the Capital Regional District.
- Explore opportunities to collaborate with community-based organizations as partners.
- Connect with current community leaders as mentors, coaches, facilitators and role models.
Community Learning Days (CLDs)
(Five days plus Friday and Saturday sessions — October to June):
- Theme-focused, hands-on, one-and-two-day learning events. Themes include:
- exploration of personal values;
- leadership skills;
- team development and collaboration;
- presentation skills;
- project management;
- networking; and,
- fund development.
- Led by community-based facilitators and leaders from the Program Committee.
- Sessions include “learning bursts” of information enhanced by immediate opportunities for application.
- Discussion with panels — composed of community leaders, activists and organizations — for real-life, real-time exposure to current community issues.
Community Action Projects (CAPs)
- Participants are assigned to Project Action Teams of five to six members to work, in collaboration with a community partner, on a project that will benefit the community.
- This “Learning Lab “ enables participants to apply their skills as a team while creating a difference in the community
- Each team is assigned a coach, whose role is to:
- guide and assist the team in its leadership development;
- ensure that the project chosen by the team is manageable;
- assist in connecting with community partners; and,
- support and guide the team in developing their project from concept to reality.
(For more information on previous Community Action Projects, click here)
Individual Mentorship
- Each participant selects personal and confidential mentors for the program’s duration.
- Mentors are community leaders and volunteers who have a wide range of mentoring or coaching experience.
- Mentors provide an opportunity for personal reflection, feedback and assistance for the participant’s individual learning plan.
Learning Framework
- Assists participants to take charge of their own learning, based on the principle that effective leaders recognize that learning and leadership are inextricably linked:
- Me with Me: learning more about self and building personal leadership competence;
- Me with You: learning about self in relation to other individuals;
- Me with Groups: learning how to effectively contribute and lead in small teams and groups; and,
- Me with Community: learning to contribute to and participate in larger communities, e.g. community organizations, political organizations, corporate communities
Graduation
- Celebrates participants in June at the community-sponsored graduation.
- Showcases community projects.
- Acknowledges and thanks community partners.
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