Community Leadership Enhancement Project

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Community Leadership Enhancement Project
Leadership

• Southwestern Indiana Development Council (SWIDC)

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Right now, in your community, at this very
moment, there is someone who is dreaming about
doing something to improve his/her lot. If we
could learn how to help that person to transform
the dream into meaningful work, we would be
halfway to changing the economic fortunes of the
entire community. ---Ernest Sirolli
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Community Leadership Enhancement Program
Leadership

• A grant from Indiana Rural Regional Partnership
  Grant from the Indiana Rural Development Council
• Grant Recipient Organization
• Southwest Indiana Development Council

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SWIDCSouthwest Indiana Development Council

• SWIDC
• PO Box 953
• Evansville, IN 47706
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• WEB www.swidc.org
• EMAIL Info_at_swidc.org

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SWIDC Southwest Indiana
Development Council

• SWIDC is an economic development organization
  comprised of representatives of fifteen counties
  in Southwest Indiana
• www.swidc.org

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This program provides some insights about
leadership...
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360 Degree LEADERSHIP

• A leadership team is more
• effective than one person
• Think longer term
• Push boundaries to find a better way
• See within the larger context of how something
  will impact others

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360 Degree Leaders Qualities Source The 360
Degree Leader by John C. Maxwell
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360 Degree Qualities

1. Adapt Quickly adjusting to change
2. Real Issues understanding and discerning real
   issues
3. Communication Linking to all levels
4. Perspective Seeing beyond your own personal
   position
5. Security Finding identity in self, not in the
   position

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360 Degree Qualities

1. Servanthood Doing whatever it takes
2. Resourcefulness Finding creative ways to make
   things happen
3. Maturity Putting the team before oneself
4. Endurance Remaining consistent in character and
   competence over the long haul
5. Countability Being able to be counted when it
   counts

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Some Things to Think About

• Eisenhower
• The supreme quality for leadership is
  unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real
  success is possible, no matter whether it is on a
  section gang, a football field, in an army, or in
  an office.

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Bad Leadership Good Reasons Excuses

• Well we have never done that around here before
• I think we tried something like that years ago
  and it did not work
• Weve heard about that and it will never work here

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What Leadership Is NOT

• CAVE people
• NIMBY
• BANANA

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What Leadership Is Not

• CAVE people
• Citizens Against Virtually Everything
• NIMBY
• Not in My Backyard
• BANANA
• Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything

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Community Leadership

• Who are our community leaders?
• Dont forget to expand your idea of who we can
  include in community leadership

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Activity

• Whats going on in your County?

Involvement
Creates Opportunities for
Community Leadership
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Activity

• Whats going on in ------County?
• Community Development Activities
• In groups, take a few minutes to list all the
  community development activities that currently
  exist in your County Contact Person

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WOW! Look Whats Going on in ----- County

• Community Development Activities

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Its Our responsibility to get involved

• Opportunity doesnt always knock on your door
• Its your responsibility to find ways to get
  involved

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The Tipping Point

• Hush Puppies 30,000 in 1993 to 1.7 million in
  1996
• Broken Windows Theory, New York City

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Tipping Point Example

• What is the answer?
• If you were to fold over one large sheet of paper
  over and over fifty times, How high would it
  reach?

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How high would the paper reach?
Phone book

• .

Refrigerator
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How high would the paper reach?

• The answer From the earth to the sun

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Wheres our Community Tipping Point?

• Its the small stuff thats done
  transformational that will have the biggest
  impact
• What can you do to take a small step to help
  transform your community?

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Economic Development Leadership

• Some words about our leadership

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Examples of our Leadership
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Book Resources

• Boom Town by Jack Schultz
• Ripples from the Zambezi by Ernesto Sirolli
• The Tipping Point
• The 360 Degree Leader by John Maxwell
• What the Best CEOs Know by Jeffrey A. Krames
• The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

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This concludes our program

• Please complete the program evaluation!

Thank you!
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SWIDCSouthwest Indiana Development Council

• SWIDC
• PO Box 953
• Evansville, IN 47706
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• WEB www.swidc.org
• EMAIL Info_at_swidc.org