Participate in LeaderShape
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Be a talent scout for tomorrow's leaders by nominating fellow students, or YOURSELF, to participate in the LeaderShape Institute. Each year for the past decade, UNCG has sent 20-25 students to the LeaderShape Institute in Champaign, Illinois. Through a generous gift from the UNCG Parent and Family Council, this year we are able to bring LeaderShape to UNCG. This will enable us to invite 60 students to participate in a LeaderShape experience specifically designed for UNCG students.
The UNCG LeaderShape program will be held August 3-8, 2009 at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North Carolina. The program, including lodging, food, training and transportation, is offered free of charge to participants.
What exactly is LeaderShape?
LeaderShape is a not-for-profit organization committed to developing young adults to lead with integrity™. Now in its twenty-second year, LeaderShape has made a difference in the lives of more than 30,000 young men and women across the country and around the world.
Named by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation as an "exemplary program," The LeaderShape Institute is an intensive, energizing, six-day educational experience designed to equip young adults to become extraordinary leaders. Much of the week's work is done in small groups called "family clusters," which create a safe, supportive learning environment that allows participants to work together, form close friendships, and benefit from new perspectives. Each student in the cluster works to define his/her personal vision - an extraordinary commitment to changing or contributing to the world in a positive way.
Based on that vision, participants then develop a blueprint for the action that they will undertake when they return home - with the objective of effecting meaningful, measurable change in their organization during the next 9-12 months. With the guidance of LeaderShape facilitators, participants complete a blueprint that identifies the goals, relationships, and action steps that are essential to the project's success.
Download a copy of the LeaderShape brochure (PDF).
Nominate a student leader today!
Please share this information with students and encourage them to apply. The program is targeted to participants who have at least one year remaining on campus, demonstrate leadership or leadership potential, are involved in an organization, campus employment or other campus or community program, and demonstrate integrity, responsibility, and commitment.
The application is available at https://www-s1.leadershape.org/apprd/2129/. The application deadline is May 1, 2009.
For more information, contact Checka Leinwall, Director of Campus Activities & Programs, at 334-5800 or at checka_leinwall@uncg.edu if you have any questions.