The High Hopes
Magazine
"Have you ever been to a place where everyone around you is friendly and thoughtful?...Well I have been to such a place...This has been the best experience I have ever had." Matt Logan
During the past school year, Leadership Greater Hartford trained and supported 250 parents, teachers, principals, and others in the art of working together to improve education for Hartford’s students.
Leadership Greater Hartford has been awarded the 2009 Tapestry Award from The Hartford Courant in recognition of our work connecting diverse constituencies and building bridges of understanding in the region.
Have you driven Capitol Ave between Forrest and Laurel recently? Many Hartford commuters and students travel this corridor daily. Until recently, it has been a disheartening mess. Thanks to the efforts of over 100 volunteers, including a group of enthusiastic volunteers from Ikon who came together on September 26, this stretch of Capitol Ave is becoming a Corridor of Hope.
Leadership Greater Hartford's Quest Program
Strengthen your leadership skills, your community connection and yourself
Quest, the signature program of Leadership Greater Hartford for over thirty years, brings together emerging and established leaders from all sectors – corporate, government, small business, academia, and nonprofit. They learn leadership through workshops, community tours and collaborative task force projects that address pressing community needs. Quest develops and engages leaders, offering a place to practice skills, create new professional relationships and address issues affecting the community.
Participants learn:
- Leadership skills – to inspire and direct change in a collaborative, dynamic and diverse arena;
- About themselves – recognizing and drawing on their assets and capabilities in their work and community;
- About the community – its challenges, assets and potential.
The 11-month program starts with an orientation and retreat in January. Participants spend the first quarter learning about their own leadership skills and personality, discovering Hartford area history and demographics, and starting task force projects. Spring brings workshops and tours on strategic thinking, successful change, and managing diverse teams. Participants spend the summer reviewing task force dynamics, and learning techniques for transforming conflict. Fall brings in-depth study of leadership principles in workshops and tours, self and peer assessments, and task force presentations.
Quest connected me to a greater breadth of diverse leadership styles than I could ever have experienced within my corporation (and) gave me perspectives on … gaining consensus and prevailing as a team in the face of adversity. Bernard Dowd, PricewaterhouseCoopers
For more information, contact Wanda Y. Correa, Program Director at 860.951.6161 x22 or email wanda.correa@leadershipgh.org.