Transcript Vision - Building Connections

Community Business
Leaders of Tomorrow
“Leading towards a better tomorrow.”
Kyle Merten
Jeanie Long
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Does leadership make a difference?
• OUTCOMES
– Networking
– Creating a unified spirit
– Social responsibility- commitment to and
support for the community
IMPACT
Involvement – seek active roles in community
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• Never doubt that a small, group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it’s the only
thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
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Defining Community Leadership
Community leadership is that which involves influence,
power, and input into public decision making over one or
more spheres of activity. The spheres of activity may include
an organization, an area of interest, an institution, a town, a
county or a region. Leadership capacity extends beyond the
skills necessary to maintain a social service and/ or activities
organization. The leadership skills include those necessary
for public decision-making, policy development, program
implementation, and organizational maintenance.
Attribution???
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Industry and Employment
• Top Industries
– Education, Health and Social Services (19.3%)
– Manufacturing (15.2%)
– Retail Trade (14.1%)
• 29.0 minutes average travel time to work.
– Economic opportunities being lost outside county
• 5.4% unemployment rate in Austin County
– 0.3% higher than U.S. unemployment rate (2005)
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Demographics
Population (2005)
• 26,151 people
– Increase of 11% from 2000
• 26.7% of the county is 18 or younger
• 61.3% of the population is between 18 and 65
• 14.2% is 65 or older
Demographics
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71.9% White Non-Hispanic,
16.1% Hispanic,
10.6% Black,
0.3% American Indian and Alaska Native persons,
0.4% Asian persons, and
0.5% persons reporting two or more races.
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Future Demographics
• 2040 population projections
– Vary from 26,365- 44,107
• All models illustrate a decrease in white
populations and increase an increase in
Hispanic population
– Conservative model (2040)- 58.17%(white), 27.90%,
12.98% (African American), .94% (other)
– Liberal model (2040)- 43.56% (white), 46.00%
(Hispanic), 9.93% (African American), .51% (other)
Texas Demographer- http://txsdc.utsa.edu/
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What is the vision of this
program?
• Goal- To improve the quality of life among
Austin County residents by stimulating
economic growth.
• Target Audience- The target audience for the
program will be 50 business leaders in Austin
County, from agricultural and non-agricultural
sectors.
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Vision
Overall Objective
- To develop a leadership workshop for business
leaders in Austin County by April 2007.
Outcome Objectives
- Participants will increase their knowledge of
leadership opportunities within Austin County
including: visioning, goal setting, networking, team
building, and collaboration.
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Vision
- Participants will change their attitudes of leadership
opportunities within Austin County through two social
networking events.
- Participants will increase their leadership skills within
Austin County by distinguishing between, and
identifying different leadership styles and completing
a personal, business and community needs
assessment.
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Vision
- Participants will adopt practices associated with
leadership opportunities including: writing goal
statements and developing vision statements.
- Participants will adopt practices associated with
leadership opportunities including: conducting needs
assessment and executing team building exercises
with co-workers.
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Program Areas
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Needs Assessment
Visioning
Goals
Leadership Styles
Networking
Team Building
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Social Networking Event
• Allow participants to mingle and meet other
participants.
• Conduct a needs assessment for business,
community.
• Conduct a SWOT Analysis for the
community.
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Creating a Vision
• Creates a clear and concise belief statement among an
organization or a community that everyone believes in
or shares that is a catalyst for change!!
• Vision Statements are the basis for all organizations.
– Strategic planning is done through strategic visioning
• Provides the focus and energy for learning.
• Should not be based on an individual’s vision imposed
on an organization.
– No longer shared
– Low commitment by organization
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Creating visions requires courage and creativity.
BE BOLD AND THINK BIG!!
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Goal Setting
• Based off of vision statement.
• Goals give us a sense of purpose.
• Twice as likely to achieve goals when written
down!
• Writing goal statements
– Specific
– Difficult
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Motivation of People
– Attainable
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Networking
• A leadership trait used to create connections between people to
gain, nurture contacts for the future.
• Result: building relationships with community people.
Power structures in communities
– Based on size, commitment of people who are part of it.
– Internal: Community
– External: those who control the resources
Opinion leaders in communities
– Degree to which an individual is able to influence other
individuals’ attitudes or overt behavior in a desired way with a
relatively high frequency.
– Innovators on specific subject matter; help change agents
make specific decisions that affect communities.
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Leadership Styles
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Autocratic
Bureaucratic
Democratic
Coercive
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• Transactional
• Transformational
• Laissez-Faire
Team Building
• Group vs. Team
• Team Development
• Team Functions
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Social Event
• Summary of program areas.
• Keynote speaker:
Collaboration.
• Encourage program
participants to use
knowledge and skills gained
to address the issues
identified in Week 1.
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Timeline
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Needs Assessment
Visioning
Goals
Leadership Styles
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• Networking
• Team Building
• Social Event
Volunteers and Committees
• Volunteers: promotion
• Committees: organization
• Volunteers and committees:
help with maintaining the
vision of the program and
the community!
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Evaluation of Program
• Retrospective Post Evaluation Instrument
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Satisfaction
Demographics
Knowledge
Intentions to adopt
Economic Impact questions
• Follow up will be done eight months later
– Zip survey http://www.zipsurvey.com/
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