YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Leadership for the 21st Century...Starts Today, With Your Young Adults
Do your students wonder why some people are able to achieve great things? Why certain people appear to be positive, productive and respected by their peers? Why some people have leadership qualities that the rest look up to and follow? Do they wonder how they do it? Do they ever imagine themselves as that leader?!?

ICL’s "Leadership for the 21st Century" training program is interested in questions like these, and in helping students explore and find their own answers. It does so by providing an active learning format that focuses on specifically what it takes to be an effective, contributing, and skillful leader.

By carefully examining a lot of very important leadership information, ideas, and skills – and putting students into activities, experiences, and discussions from which they can learn a great deal – your students will have the chance to understand the skills and abilities of effective leaders, and how to develop those qualities in themselves.

The Leadership for the 21st Century training program focuses on 10 areas that we believe to be important to the leadership process. The format we use to cover these areas is varied, engaging, and relevant.

Through cooperative challenge tasks (inside and outside), students learn valuable lessons in the give-and-take of problem-solving and effective communicating; though group dialoguing sessions they learn how to give and receive feedback and appreciate a diversity of perspectives; through the artistic process they will create visions of new and desired futures; through reflective journaling they decide which behaviors and patterns are worth keeping and which new ones need to be established. These represent important skills, knowledge and traits of a successful leader.

We know that your students will benefit from the Leadership for the 21st Century training experience. The goal of the program is to empower your young adults with the kind of knowledge and skills they will need to create the kind of life they want, and to make their role in the 21st century one of positive leadership.

Currently, ICL is operating a number of specialized programming activities and initiatives that include, but are not limited to, the implementation of leadership trainings for: middle and high school students, adult students from area universities, educational staff development, staff and clients served by the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services Board of Cuyahoga County, specialized programming for community-based organization such as Look-Up-to-Cleveland, the National Conference for Community and Justice “It’s Your Move” program, Leadership Cleveland, etc.

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