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Kentucky Leadership Programs
Several programs in Kentucky offer specialized leadership professional development or trainings. Check out these outstanding program websites for more information.
Leadership Kentucky
Leadership Kentucky offers 4 unique leadership programs - each with the goal preparing participants to take an active role in advancing the state for the common good. By fostering an understanding of how the state’s issues are interconnected, and by forging new relationships among community and regional leaders, the participants bring a fresh and informed perspective to their communities and companies, serving as important leaders in the unified effort to shape Kentucky’s future.
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Leadership Louisville Center
The Leadership Louisville Center is the resource for engaging talent development training, experiential learning, and access to transformative perspectives. For over 45 years, the Center has helped individuals and organizations make an impact with confidence, connection, and courage – helping them go beyond being successful to being truly significant.
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Paducah Leadership Center
The mission of The Leadership Center is to develop and equip leaders through comprehensive programs and training. At The Leadership Center, we believe our community's competitive advantage is our leaders. We are working to turn today's West Kentucky workforce into tomorrow's leaders. The Leadership Center is the hub of many leadership training, professional development, and workforce-related programs.
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Community Toolbox
The Community Tool Box is a collection of detailed facilitator tools for moving community actions forward. Tools may be useful for your Community Leadership Program planning committee for ideas in designing public interaction activities, and may serve as a guide for leadership project teams. Tools include skill building, connecting, and taking action in communities.
Browse the Community Toolbox ResourceSessionLab
SessionLab is a robust resource of activities for skill building and leadership development. The facilitation library will support Community Leadership Programmers and facilitators a host of activities to integrate into your program. Resources are searchable by purpose including: Teambuilding, Energizers/Mixers, idea generation, issue resolution, Issue analysis, Facilitating group action, skill development, and even tools for remote facilitation.
Browse SessionLab ResourcesCooperative Extension-based Resources
Extension Community Development
Community Development Extension Library
The Community Development Extension Library is a collection of Cooperative Extension developed processes and materials to support work in facilitating community development and change. Compiled through the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, the site offers a phased planning process model and a searchable subject area database for resources.
Browse Community Development Extension Library ResourcesExtension Leadership Development
Cooperative Extension has a strong history for developing and implementing leadership programming. Ranging from individual, to organizational, to community focused activities, Cooperative Extension leadership development resources include:
Leadership Excellence And Dynamic Solutions (LEADS)
Leadership Excellence And Dynamic Solutions (LEADS) is available through Kansas State University and provides a rich resource of leadership development exercises and activities.
Browse LEADS Curriculum NotebookTurning Lemons into Lemonade Curriculum
Turning Lemons into Lemonade is an Extension Curriculum to support conflict resolution. Written by Dr. Ron Hustedde of UK, it stands as a good source of ideas for identifying and responding to conflict.
Browse Turning Lemons into Lemonade CurriculumKentucky Leadership Extension Development (KELD)
Kentucky Leadership Extension Development (KELD) materials are designed for a leadership programmer to pick up a guide and facilitate. Topics range from individual leadership development to organizational and community engagement skill building exercises.
Browse KELD PublicationsUK Community and Leadership Development Department Resources
Publications by topic from UK relating to leadership development
Browse UK Community and Leadership Development Department ResourcesBlueprint Kentucky CLD Resources
Publications by topic from Blueprint Kentucky relating to leadership development.
Browse Blueprint Kentucky CLD Publications by TopicRecommended Books
Community Leadership Development: A Compendium of Theory, Research and Application is an exceptional source of information for Community Leadership program developers. The book provides evidence and research-based information from which to root your program activities.
The Community Development Series – this 20 book special series explores topics important to community development, and could serve as an excellent foundation of ideas from which a leadership program might launch community change initiatives.
Community Effects of Leadership Development Education; Citizen Empowerment for Civic Engagement. This book is a summation of a multi-state evaluation of civic leadership programs to assess the impacts of Community Leadership Development Education (CLDE) programs.
The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources provides practical methods and ideas for engaging community members in efforts to impact community change.
Who Moved My Cheese – by Spencer Johnson & Kenneth Blanchard. 1998. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN-13: 9780399144462 Is an easy to read, story based allegory that explores the resistance to change and how to overcome it.
That’s Not How We Do Things Here; A Story About How Organizations Rise and Fall - and Can Rise Again – by Dr. John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. An easy to read metaphor that explains the resistance to change and the important role innovation plays in individual, organizational, and community survival.
Kentucky Community Leadership Programs Network
Use this link to connect with other Leadership Programs in Kentucky through Facebook, an Interactive Map, and Annual Summits that bring Leaders together.
KCLP NetworkCLD Planning Toolkit
Use this link to navigate back to the main CLD Planning Toolkit page and explore all the collected resources.
CLD Planning ToolkitExplore the Next Resource in the CLD Toolkit
We provide examples of program applications, meeting agendas, and year-long calendars of leadership programming plans.
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