Leadership on the Line:
Meeting the Challenges of Leading Local Government
August 25-27, 2005 - Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston - Cambridge, MA
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Exercising real leadership - taking initiative, putting new ideas on the table, taking personal risks without knowing if you will be successful, asking people to face up to challenging realities, motivating difficult conversations that others may be avoiding can complicate your life. Exercising real leadership is making the lives of people around you?in your work, in your communities, in your families?better. Often, exercising leadership means transcending the authority you are given to tackle the challenge at hand. |
Explore the Dangers of Leadership
Explore the difficulties and opportunities in exercising leadership. Examine why the exercise of leadership is different from practicing good management and exercising authority. Build the skills and knowledge required to be effective in taking on these tasks and increasing your ability to be successful; develop frameworks and practical techniques that will be useful in analyzing situations you are confronting.
Develop Skills for Exercising Leadership and Staying Alive
Focus on analytic and political skill development, including the capacity to distinguish technical from adaptive work; assessing where others are; delving beneath the issue; how to read authority figures for clues; finding partners in the enterprise; keeping the opposition close; accepting responsibility and ownership; modeling behavior; and accepting causalities. Learn about orchestrating the conflict, giving the work back, and how to hold steady so that attention is focused on the right issues.
Overcome the Challenges for Leading Local Government
Join author and leadership scholar Marty Linsky, along with Cambridge Leadership Associates trainers Jay Kaufman, and Sousan Abadian, as you engage in a dynamic and reflective program that confronts the challenges of leadership in local government. Make your plans now to participate in the 13th Annual Leadership Summit at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston in Cambridge, MA. The National League of Cities? Leadership Training Institute presents a program designed to enhance your success and understanding of your leadership role and responsibilities as an elected official.
Core Competency:
Cornerstone/Catalyst: 10 Credits in the Certificate of Achievement in Leadership program
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT PRESENTERS?
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Marty Linsky is an author, scholar, principal of Cambridge Leadership Associates, LLC, and faculty member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Linsky has extensive experience as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer in leadership, ethics, external relations, press relations, political relations, communications, strategic planning, and discussion-based teaching in the US and abroad. At Harvard, he teaches about leadership, press, politics, legislatures, and public management; he has been Faculty Chair of several of the School's Executive Programs on leadership and public management, including Leadership for the 21st Century. Linsky returned to Harvard in 1995 after three years as Chief Secretary and then Counselor to Governor William Weld of Massachusetts. Former positions include serving as a Member and Assistant Minority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Assistant Director, Institute of Politics, Harvard; Executive Editor, The Advocates, PBS; Editor, The Real Paper; editorial writer and reporter, The Boston Globe. Linsky is co-author with Ronald Heifetz of Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leadership, (Harvard Business School Press April 2002).
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Jay Kaufman is an associate with the Cambridge Leadership Associates and currently serves as a State Representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since 1995, where he has initiated many pieces of new legislation. Kaufman has enjoyed a varied career in which he has both practiced and experienced the challenges of adaptive leadership. He has launched a monthly public policy forum, initiated and chaired a special commission on alternative funding sources for public education, as well as proposed and served on a special commission on complementary and alternative medicine. Kaufman has also served as the Director of A New Public Education, as a strategic planning consultant, an educator, and has served in numerous civic positions.
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Sousan Abadian is an associate with the Cambridge Leadership Associates, based in Cambridge, MA, where she has considerable experience teaching, consulting and facilitating work in organizations within the adaptive leadership framework as applied by CLA. Abadian has engaged in research and intervention related to aboriginal peoples in the United States and abroad. Abadian is a graduate of Swarthmore College and also holds two masters? degrees and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University.
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Leadership on the Line: Meeting the Challenges of Local Government
Preliminary schedule of events for the Summit (subject to change)?
Thursday, August 25th
8:00 a.m. Registration
9:00 - 11:30 a.m. Leadership Training Council meeting (LTC Members only)
9:00 - 5:30 p.m. Leadership Bookstore open
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 5:00 p.m. The Framework of Adaptive Leadership: Distinctions in Exercising Leadership
- Marty Linsky, Jay Kaufman, and Sousan Abadian
6:00 p.m. Welcoming Reception
Friday, August 26th
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 5:30 p.m. Leadership Bookstore open
8:30 - 3:00 p.m. Guest/Spouse Tour of Cambridge and Boston area
8:30 - 12:00 noon Why Leadership is Difficult - Marty Linsky, Jay Kaufman, and Sousan Abadian
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 5:00 p.m. Why Leadership is Dangerous - Marty Linsky, Jay Kaufman, and Sousan Abadian
6:00 p.m. An Evening Cruise on Boston Harbor
Saturday, August 27th
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 2:00 p.m. Leadership Bookstore open
8:30 - 12:00 noon Developing the Skills and Staying Alive: Analysis of Technical and Adaptive Challenges
- Marty Linsky, Jay Kaufman, and Sousan Abadian
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
Summit concludes
Registration:
The registration fee includes the full three-day training program and six meal functions and breaks, including a reception, two continental breakfasts, and three lunches. The Spouse/Guest registration fee includes all of the meal functions and a full-day tour on Friday.
Early Bird Registration (faxed or postmarked by March 1, 2005)
____ $595 Member City
____ $195 Spouse/Guest Fee
Advance Registration (faxed or postmarked by July 1, 2005)
____ $695 Member City
____ $245 Spouse/Guest Fee
Late Registration (faxed or postmarked after July 1, 2005)
____ $795 Member City
____ $295 Spouse/Guest Fee
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For more information, call (202) 626-3127 or email Dwight Horkheimer at horkheimer@nlc.org