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Cultivating Hispanic Leadership Institute 2024-02-06T12:33:29-05:00

Cultivating Hispanic Leadership Institute

“Because Leadership is for Everyone”

CHLI GRADUATES

2023 Graduates

Cost is $ 3,000 * Includes Retreat.

The Leadership Institute was the idea of the Chamber leadership.  The Cultivating Hispanic Leaders Institute curriculum was created by the University of Georgia’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development. The sessions are all highly interactive and facilitated by Fanning faculty.

The Cultivating Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI), a partnership of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GHCC) and the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development is a six-month leadership development program. CHLI was born out of the notion that leadership is not for the chosen few, but for all of us – it is all of our responsibility. CHLI is leadership training and a leadership network. The Leadership Institute will provide an opportunity for GHCC members to receive leadership training to assist with their organizational, business, and community leadership skills as well as create a critical mass of new leaders that will be provided with the tools and opportunities to become philanthropists, board members, appointed officials, and elected officials. In addition, each class will graduate into a network of individuals who may serve as mentors to other aspiring business and community leaders within the GHCC.

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Session I: Opening Retreat

Date: TBD

Location: TBD

Session Description:

A two-day session designed to orient participants to the program’s objectives. The session will frame the program’s focus on leadership development through a discussion of competencies and skills. Specific topics will include an introduction to leadership styles, a review of a personal assessment measuring thinking and behavioral attributes, and exploration of adaptive leadership practices.

Learning Objectives:
  • Gain awareness of your personal preferences and how they affect your leadership style.

  • Obtain insights into various leadership styles, practices, and attributes.

  • Build connections and relationships.

  • Identify an individual leadership challenge that will provide the foundation for self-directed learning throughout the program.

Session II: Building Strategies and Tools for Effective Leadership

Date: TBD

Location: TBD

Session Description:

This session will focus on identifying and developing key leadership competencies for real-life situations and issues. Leaders must be effective in leading groups through decision-making processes and dealing with potential conflicts.

Learning Objectives:
  • Acquire tools for group decision-making, collaboration, and consensus-building.

  • Discuss and reflect on personal conflict styles.

  • Identify strategies for managing conflicts.

  • Engage in learning strategies for real-life application.

Session III: Responding as Leaders to Social, Political, and Economic Matters in Our Community

Date: TBD

Location: TBD

Session Description:

Today’s leaders must combine vision and planning with creative and unconventional thinking and strategies. Participants will learn about community demographics, trends, and projections; explore key community issues; and discuss their specific impact on the Hispanic community. Participants will discuss the opportunities and challenges of addressing these issues in the context of community development.

Learning Objectives:
  • Gain awareness of the complexity surrounding key issues in the Hispanic community.

  • Understand the process of developing a collective vision.

  • Examine the community development process for addressing complex issues.

  • Discuss leadership opportunities and challenges related to identified community issues.

Session IV: Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership

Date: TBD

Location: TBD

Session Description:

Participants will explore leadership in the context of creativity and innovation. Key competencies for leaders in the public and private sectors will be discussed, and participants will learn how creativity and innovation function as functions of imagination, exploration, experimentation, and application.

Learning Objectives:
  • Discover the link between creativity and effective leadership.

  • Share information about risk-taking and leadership.

  • Share individual risk propensity scores and their relationship with leadership.

  • Explore how leaders can better master innovation in an uncertain context.

Session V: Real-Life Leadership Lessons

Date: TBD

Location: TBD

Session Description:

This session will focus on the experiences and perspectives of successful leaders while discussing the skills required to develop leadership capacity in business, community, and organizations. Discussions will include reflections on how they have led change and the competencies required to be successful change agents. Participants will also have the opportunity to consult with their peer coaching teams about their progress with their self-directed leadership challenge.

Learning Objectives:
  • Learn leadership lessons from experienced leaders, including reflections on both positive and negative experiences.

  • Have the opportunity to hear from real-life leaders about the practices they use to lead.

  • Engage current leaders in a discussion focused on how they have responded to the challenges of change.

Session VI: Leading Change and Graduation

Date: TBD

Location: TBD

Session Description:

This session will bring together leadership lessons, including a final reflection on participants’ self-directed leadership experience, a discussion of their personal leadership growth, and an exploration of their plans for advancing leadership change. The highlight of the day will be a graduation ceremony.

Learning Objectives:
  • Reflect on the application of their learning as they advance in leadership roles.

  • Identify new leadership opportunities and determine how to address them.

  • Celebrate their achievements by participating in the program.

CHLI application requirements:

  1. GHCC member with an interest in utilizing the newly gained leadership skills to “give back”.
  2. Attend 5 of the 6 sessions
  3. Attend retreat
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