Session I:

Opening Retreat

A two-day session designed to orient participants to the program objectives and begin the process of building a cohesive cohort. The session will frame the program’s focus on leadership development through a discussion of leadership competencies and skills. Specific topics will include an introduction to leadership styles, debrief of a personal assessment measuring thinking and behavioral attributes, and exploration of adaptive leadership practices.

Session II:

Responding as Leaders to our Community’s Social, Political, Educational, and Economic Issues

Participants will explore key community issues. The session will focus on the complexity of these issues and the specific impact in the Hispanic Community.

Participants will discuss the opportunities and challenges of addressing these issues in the context of community development.

Session III:

Building Strategies and Tools for Being an Effective Leader

Today’s 21st century leaders must combine vision and planning with outside the box thinking and strategies. This session will focus on identifying and developing leadership competencies key to real life settings and issues. Included in the day are sessions on Emotional Intelligence, group decision-making, and consensus building. Participants will also be provided an opportunity to check in with Fanning facilitators on their progress with their self-directed leadership challenge.articipants will explore key community issues. The session will focus on the complexity of these issues and the specific impact in the Hispanic Community.

Session IV:

Creativity, Innovation, and Risks

Participants will explore leadership in the context of creativity and innovation. Key competencies for leaders in the public and private sectors, participants will learn how creativity and innovation are functions of imagination, exploration, experimentation, and application.

Session V:

Real Life Leadership Lessons

This session will focus on the experiences and perspectives of accomplished leaders as they discuss the skills required to build leadership capacity in business, community, and organizations. The discussions will include their reflections on how they have led change and the competencies required to be successful change agents, including how to engage stakeholders, and how to better understand the importance of a community’s stage in its development.

Session VI:

Leading Change and Graduation

This session will weave together leadership lessons and perspectives including a capstone reflection of the participants’ self-directed leadership experience, a discussion of their personal leadership growth and an exploration of their plans for moving forward in leading change. The highlight of the day will be a graduation ceremony.