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Leadership Greater Hartford's Quest Program
Strengthen your leadership skills, your community connection and yourself
Quest, the signature program of Leadership Greater Hartford for 35 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, provides a place to practice skills, creates new professional relationships and addresses 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 taskforce projects. Spring brings workshops and tours on strategic thinking, successful change, and managing diverse teams. Participants spend the summer reviewing taskforce dynamics, and learning techniques for transforming conflict. Fall brings in-depth study of leadership principles through workshops and tours, self and peer assessments, and taskforce 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
The Quest program was a great opportunity to learn and experience different leadership styles and test my own limits. At the same time, our project allowed participation in a creative solution to alleviating food insecurity in our own community. I'm grateful for the experience. Ann Lankford, 2009
For more information, contact Wanda Y. Correa, Program Director at 860.951.6161 x22 or email wanda.correa@leadershipgh.org