The application period for Rising Leaders 2010-2011 has now closed. Please come back in April 2011 to learn about participating in the class of Rising Leaders 2012!
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Launched in 2005, Rising Leaders is a program for middle managers to move to the next level of personal and collective effectiveness as nonprofit leaders in Palm Beach County. Rising Leaders equips participants to build more strategic organizations, form strong partnerships, and influence policy in education, health and human services.
This year, 40 health, education and human service managers will be selected to become more skilled in their use of personal power; create, communicate, and sustain a compelling, ambitious and credible vision for social change; and diagnose and take effective steps to handle major leadership and organizational challenges.
Program Description: Leaders of organizations today face many types of challenges. These include the need to design organizations that are capable of coping with rapid change and the greater complexity created by our increased interconnectedness, the need to understand and shape organizational culture and to motivate employees, the need to understand and manage politics and conflict between individuals and organizational units, the need to understand and manage diversity, and more. Such challenges, and how management addresses them, are the theme of this program.
Service Learning: As part of the Rising Leaders program, members will participate 8-10 hours per month for 9 months in an extracurricular Service Learning team project designed to assist a local community organization. Examples of projects include developing a strategic, marketing or operational plan for an organization. In addition to providing a valuable service, members will have opportunities to learn and practice new leadership skills.
Why apply to Rising Leaders?
Our interactive program features topics that will help you hone your executive competencies while putting them to use in your organization. You will learn to:
- Develop a more comprehensive understanding of your personal leadership style through self-assessments
- Apply and integrate leadership concepts into a variety of situations
- Understand the link between leadership and power, motivation and trust
- Think critically about innovative leadership styles
- Understand organization dynamics and the role leaders play at all levels
- Become a more effective leader within future leadership positions
Enrollment in Rising Leaders is competitive and candidates will be interviewed as part of the application process.