pecial Announcement from Positive Leadership: Positive Leadership will present a pre-conference workshop at the 2010 Community Leadership Association annual conference: Blazing the Trail for Tomorrow’s Leaders Today. The session takes place on Thursday, April 22nd and all attendees are invited to sign up. Positive Leadership (PL) is a curriculum solution for community leadership programs across the country. Here are some of the benefits that program directors may be interesting in knowing:

• Implement a coherent leadership curriculum seamlessly into your existing program. The concepts of PL fit beautifully with topic sessions you already present: education, arts, business, city governance, etc.
• Your participants will not have seen this model before because it is currently exclusive to community leadership programs. PL provides your program with a unique offering they could not get anywhere else. This will help you add value to your prospective participants.
• PL is inclusive of participants from business, government, education, non-profit, ministry, etc. Unlike most leadership models/books that are written for business, PL is about community leadership and applies to all contexts equally.
• You will be provided with all the necessary materials to easily adapt into your program, including curriculum, implementation guidebook, PowerPoints, discussion guides and full support from the author.
• Pricing structure scales to the size of your program and is less than the cost of buying a typical leadership book for each participant.

Positive Leadership has been piloted for several years to ensure positive impact. It is currently used in several community leadership programs around the country. By attending this session you will leave with everything you need to know about implementing this model. Feedback from community leadership staff:

“The Positive Leadership Model has been an excellent curriculum for us to use here at Leadership Tulsa. One of its key strengths is that it has universal application to many leadership situations including corporate, governmental and volunteer. Also, it offers a fresh perspective that is not duplicated by other training programs that people encounter in corporate or university settings. Most importantly, we are able to use it as a jumping off place for deep conversations that help draw our participants together in shared understanding and reflection.” Wendy Thomas, Executive Director, Leadership Tulsa

“Leadership Saint Paul has used the Positive Leadership model developed by Adam Seaman for two years. Our program has improved because of this added dimension of self reflection on leadership styles. Some participants have even brought this exciting content into their own organization to share with their teams. I highly recommend the Positive Leadership for your community leadership program!” Bev Fritz, Director Leadership Saint Paul (Minnesota).

Feedback from program participants:

• I have personally used some of the activities in my home with my sister and husband. This model is really a way to understand and live your personal and professional lives.
• I found the readings to be interesting, well documented and thought provoking.
• I gained something from every chapter. My two favorite chapters were resilience and gratitude.
• The model offered insightful and valuable ways to imagine all kinds of things as “leaderly”. In other words, it allowed me to imagine myself as a leader even if I’m not actively taking traditional leadership roles.
• All aspects of the model were relevant in some way – in life and for leadership roles.
• They are so relevant to one’s professional life.
• The things learned could be applied to all aspects of life – not just work.
• This was a really strong part of the program and I feel like I really walked away with something tangible to which I will refer. Very appropriate, motivational, informative with meat!
• It provided a structure for some serious introspection. It also provides an impetus for starting great discussions with my peers in my own organization. We have talked about how we can improve our leadership.
• It makes “leadership” and its components more tangible. So often we all hear, “I don’t know what makes a good leader, but I know one when I see one”.