Project & Events
Leadership workshops
Throughout the year we host meetings, conferences, an workshops to help build our leaders and keep us all connected and accountable. Check out our list of upcoming events below.
Serving Leadership Rochester Event
Second Wednesday of the Month
January-July 2017
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Lower Level Training Room
180 Linden Oaks
Rochester, NY 14625
Opening Reception
Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
6:00 p.m.
Genesee Valley Club
Join us for a 7 month journey – 7 full day meetings – to explore Serving Leadership and how it can make you a more effective leader. We will study the works Jennings & Stahl-Wert, Patrick Lencioni, Don Miguel Rüiz, and McKnight & Block. Along with real world examples, these inspirational works will help us understand what it takes to be effective in our community, work, family, and Rochester at-large. This proven approach to leadership development will challenge conventional thinking and give you the tools you need to transform your personal leadership style and engage your employees around building a thriving community with purpose. We invite those whom are interested and passionate about creating a greater community to join our group of serving leaders.
Workshop: Discover the Serving Leader Model and Make a Difference!
Thursday december 1st, 2017
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
roberts weslyan school of business
Join us for 1-Day and learn The Serving Leader Model —a proven approach to leadership that is transforming leaders and companies worldwide. Based on the best-selling book, The Serving Leader, this training challenges conventional thinking and will give you and your leadership team the tools to be successful and build a thriving culture that fully engages employees around great purpose.
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The Serving Leader - Greater Rochester Edition
by john stal-wert & ken jennings, published 2014
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THE ABUNDANT COMMUNITY
BY PETER BLOCK & JOHN MCKNIGHT
We are discovering that it takes a village to do more than raise a child. It is the key to a satisfying life. It turns out we need our neighbors and a community to be healthy, produce jobs, protect the land and care for the elderly and those on the margin.
Our consumer society constantly tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We outsource our health care, child care, recreation, safety and satisfaction. We are trained to become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block take a thoughtful look at how this situation came about, what maintains it and the crippling effect it has had on our families, our communities and our environment.
Right in our neighborhood we have the capacity to address our human needs in ways that systems, which see us only as interchangeable units, as problems to be solved, never can. We all have gifts to offer, even the most seemingly marginal among us. This book suggests how to nurture voluntary, self-organizing structures that will reveal these gifts and allow them to be shared to the greatest mutual benefit. Block and McKnight recommend roles we can assume and actions we can take to reweave the social fabric that has been unraveled by consumerism and its belief that however much we have, it is not enough.
Each neighborhood has people with the gifts and talents needed to provide for our prosperity and peace of mind — this book offers practical ways to discover them. It reminds us of our power to create a hope-filled life. It assures us that ultimately we can be the architects of the future where we want to live.