Leadership Dryden

"A leader is someone you will follow to a place you would not go yourself." - Joel Barker

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Developing tomorrow’s leaders.....today.

Why this? Why now? Communities need leaders with vision, energy, and skills, to help set common goals and galvanize people into action. In the past, informal mentoring provided leadership development.  Today, leadership skills are understood to be capable of being taught and learned and community leadership skills can be explicitly fostered. More than 900 communities in Canada and the United States offer community leadership programs.  Twelve years ago, Leadership Vancouver began the trend in Canada, and now there are over twenty Canadian communities that have established programs.  Dryden has the unique distinction of being the only rural leadership program in Canada.

Who Benefits?

Program Participants:

• Build on existing leadership talents and resources in the community

• Develop a diverse network of fellow graduates committed to the common good of the city and surrounding area

• Develop new skills and strengthen interpersonal communication

Sponsoring Organizations:

• Employees and volunteers with fresh knowledge, new understanding, and recent experience of their unique community leadership skills

• Expanded and diverse community connections

• Your organization demonstrates its own leadership capacity by modeling the way

The Community:

• Energized and renewed community

• Connected individuals who have the processes and systems to work  together to engage in community mobilization that is as inclusive as the community they envision