This new adult leadership program is different than any other in existence. It is a transformational leadership experience, utilizing blended learning strategies to enhance the transfer of learning into real life. Participants will spend time at an initial retreat, developing a learning community, exploring their own unique leadership gifts and styles, and enhancing their awareness of essential leadership competencies. Participants will share in the leadership of the learning community and begin to create a relationship at the initial retreat, which promises to carry forward as the difficult assimilation of learning happens back in the world from which they have come, and continues into the second and concluding retreat experience.

Navigating Complex Reality

This competency addresses the ability to respond effectively to the challenging realities of our time, including such things as change, geography, diversity, work-life balance, and socioeconomic issues. It also focuses on the need for leaders to have a crystal clear vision of what they stand for and the principles they will live by, in order to remain grounded in the midst of the complex challenges presented by our world.

Communicating Effectively

This competency focuses on the ability of participants to consistently have the desired impact they wish to make in their interpersonal communication. This includes building effective relationships through: listening to understand, clarifying one's intent, designing and sustaining powerful alliances, and understanding and serving the needs of one's audience.

Discovering & Mastering Self

This competency is critical to the success of all of the other competencies. It includes being able to articulate one's strengths and having a plan for building upon them, as well as recognizing areas of non-talent and knowing how to mitigate their influence on one's effectiveness. Discovering and Mastering Self is about knowing oneself well enough to recognize how to fully step into action as a leader, laying claim to one's own authentic leadership style and power.

Developing People

This competency is essential for creating and sustaining effective work environments and communities and for bringing about sustained change in the world. It focuses on the ability to understand others' talents/strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as bringing out the best in others. Building effective community is the desired result of this competency.

Location

NMF LeaderImpact_© is delivered at the beautiful Swenson House on the Red Lake River and the campus of Northland Community and Technical College in northwest Minnesota. The location has woods and paths for walks, meditation, reflection and journaling.

Tuition

The fees for attending are $2,500 for someone outside the 12-county service area; a person within the region will receive a $1,500 scholarship and be charged $1,000. Additional hardship scholarships will be available for some situations. A non-refundable application fee of $100 is required with a completed application. Application fee counts towards the tuition amount. Call Jane McKelvy at the NMF office or email janem@nwmf.org for application or more information.

You should attend NMF LeaderImpact_© if you:

• have a desire for greater impact in the world
• are not satisfied with the way things are in your life and work and seek a sense of fulfillment
• seek to integrate values and life purpose with personal and professional life
• are currently not going through major life transitions
• have a strong desire to create a culture of possibilities and life-long learning
• are fully committed to pre and post program assignments and activities
• are ready to undergo a rigorous application and selection process

Key Program Benefits:

• Two experiential, competency-based and transformational leadership retreat experiences separated by twelve weeks of integrated Action Learning Lab
• Belonging to a learning community of leaders from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, sharing responsibility and accountable to each other
• Well designed competency focused, adult learning framework
• 1:1 professional coaching for deepening and integration of learning
• Excellent accommodations with scenic and world-class learning environment
• Materials, manuals and supplies for a wide range of activities
• 2 personal assessments – StrengthsFinder 2.0 and DiSC Indra
• Online technology platform for communication and integration

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For more registration information, call Jane McKelvy at the NMF office or email janem@nwmf.org