LEADERS WANTED !!

Leadership Barry County is designed to enhance leadership skills for individual growth, organizational improvement and increased community effectiveness.

Objectives: To understand shared leadership and leadership styles, To gain knowledge and understanding of our community, To know how to affect public policy, To understand how to function in changing organizations, and To comprehend political and financial structures of the community.

'Growing up in a leadership organization, the Hastings Jaycess, I thought there wasn't too much more I had to learn about leadership. But when I became a part of the Leadership Barry County Class of 2003,  I found out I was wrong. Leadership Barry County provided me with not only additional leadership skills but with a real knowledge about the community in which I grew up in. Leadership Barry County is about linking leaders and through my involvement, I have gained new friendships and an opportunity to network in a way that I might not have been able to without my graduation from Leadership Barry County.'                       -Janie Bergeron
                2003 Leadership Barry County Graduate

2008 LEADERSHIP BARRY COUNTY PROGRAM

The cost of the 8 sessions of the Leadership Barry County program is $375.   That cost includes all speakers, materials, meals, transportation and lodging for the opening weekend.  Leadership Barry County is designed to assist all citizens in discovering how our community works and where we can all use our interests and skills to make Barry County and the world as a whole a better place for all of us, and the generations to come, to live.  Class size is limited.  Please call 269-945-0526 to register now.

Following are the dates and topics for the  Leadership 2008 session:

Friday & Saturday                      What is your
Jan.  25 & 26                             Leadership Style?
2p.m. Fri. - 5p.m. Sat.

Tuesday                                Structure & Financing
Jan. 29                                    Local/State Government
4p.m. - 9p.m.

Thursday                                  Communication
Feb 7                                      & Building Consensus
4p.m. - 9p.m.

Wednesday                             Focus on Barry County
Feb. 13                                      A Road Trip in the County
8a.m.-5p.m.

Tuesday                                 Conducting Effective
Feb. 19                             Meetings/Facilitation
4p.m. – 9p.m.

Wednesday                          A “Capital Experience’
Feb. 27                                       State Issues, Lansing
8a.m. – 5p.m.

Thursday                                Diversity
March 6
4p.m.- 9p.m.

Saturday                                National Issues Forum
March 15                                  Graduation
8a.m.- 5p.m.

"Leadership Barry County is a wonderful opportunity for anyone who is looking to increase their knowledge of their community and who are looking to find the best place to use their skills to positively affect the future of
Barry County and beyond'.
Dana Rittenberg
2003 Leadership Barry County Graduate

Contact Jennifer Richards at (269) 945-0526 or director@leadershipbarrycounty.org
for more information.
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