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Shared Leadership II Program

Shared Leadership II Workshops build on Shared Leadership I, and offer opportunities to deepen and expand your knowledge, skills and perspectives. These aren't programs for armchair learners! In these three and a half day workshops you will interact with leaders from sustainable agriculture nonprofit organizations, university institutes and scientific societies, sharing your experiences and learning how to better handle the leadership challenges of an increasingly complex time. You'll be engaged in a wide range of learning activities, including discussion groups, problem-solving, engaging in team exercises and personal reflection, and planning for future action.

A few of the things you will do at Shared Leadership II Workshops:

• Share your experiences carrying out your action plans from Shared Leadership 1 and the lessons gained from making changes in your organization
• Strengthen your team's ability to work well together and identify effective team leadership practices with distant locations
• Improve your inter-personal communication, goup meeting facilitation and discussion skills
• Explore the benefits, barriers and tools for working effectively with other organizations on cooperative projects and practice the steps to a successful start
• Learn ways to strengthen and broaden your organizations support base and membership
• Identify effective leadership approaches for challenging times and identify how to make strategic choices for your organization
• Set priorities and make plans to strengthen your organization
• Explore diverse perspectives on the future of agriculture and practice communicating with people of different views.

Participants in Shared Leadership II Workshops will:

• receive on-going coaching and consulting assistance
• be part of a continuing resource and problem solving network
• be encouraged to apply for grants to develop collaborative projects; and
• be able to contract additional coaching and consulting assistance

When and Where:

Date: February 24-27, 2008

Application Due: November 26, 2007

Dunrovin Retreat Center, MN (Near Minneapolis/ St. Paul)

Application Selection Process

Eight organizations are selected according to diversity in the following factors: geographic region, agricultural milieu, economic, age, racial differences, mission, purpose, organizational size and academic discipline.

To be considered for selection, please complete and return an application form. You may also contact Barbara Rusmore at 406-582-1838 ext. 2 or email barbara@icl.org.

Program Team

Barbara Rusmore is a Senior Program Associate with the Institute for Conservation Leadership. She received her Doctorate in Organizational Development and has spent more than 25 years working in the field of environmental consulting and program development. Barbara played a lead role in developing the Institute's Executive Director Development Program and she is currently Project Director for the Institute's Cultivating Leadership for a Changing Agriculture program, a multi-year program to build better communications between sustainable agriculture groups and scientific food and agriculture societies in the US.

Dr. Peter Bloome is an Agricultural Engineer who recently retired as Associate Director of the Oregon State University Extension Service. His 37-year career included 14 years in Oklahoma, 13 in Illinois and numerous international work experiences. Peter served as the first director of, and then as an advisor to, the CAST Conversations of Change Program. He currently is the CAST consultant and Trainer on the program team of Cultivating Leadership for a Changing Agriculture.

Pam Mavrolas, consultant to the Institute for Conservation Leadership, lives in Helena, Montana. For more than 28 years, she has staffed, directed and/or been a consultant to a variety of community-based non-profits dealing with agricultural, natural resource, and environmental issues. Pam served for5 years as the Executive Directorship of Alternative Energy Resources Organization (AERO), a grassroots membership organization promoting sustainable agriculture, "smart growth" and community self-reliance. Her consulting firm, Mavrolas and Associates works primarily with sustainable agriculture, environmental and arts and cultural nonprofits. Her areas of specialty include: strategic planning; program and campaign development; evaluation; staff management and team building; board and leadership development; foundation fundraising and grant writing, and organizational problem-solving. Mavrolas holds a MS from the School of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan.

For More Information

Contact Bonnie Haigh at 401-582-1838 ext. 1or bonnie@icl.org

or

Barbara Rusmore at 406-582-1838 ext. 2 or email barbara@icl.org.