Peer Consultations that Can Offer Leaders an Expert Council of Advisors
A new RCLA Practice Note offers a behind-the-scenes look at how to design and run peer consultations that allow practitioners to bring leadership challenges or dilemmas to "workshop" with a learning group. These peer consultations not only tap the wealth of knowledge and experience of other members for ideas on new strategies, group members often gain insights into similar challenges they face in their own work.
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Youth Leadership Institute Immerses Students in NYC Civic Life, History & Culture
A leadership institute sponsored by RCLA and NYU Steinhardt in January offered college students from Puebla, Mexico a unique combination of leadership theory and practice - from courses on new ways to understand and practice leadership and social entrepreneurship, to site visits throughout New York City, including to the United Nations Headquarters, Ellis Island, and The Brotherhood-Sister Sol, a social change organization in Harlem.
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RCLA Scholar Challenges Market-Based Approach to Solving Global Problems
In his new book, "Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World,"RCLA Senior Visiting Scholar Michael Edwards challenges the notion that applying business principles to solving global problems will be more effective than traditional approaches.
The synopsis notes, "Despite the good intentions and hopeful rhetoric, Edwards shows that there is simply no proof that a business approach is better... He cites examples from his many years in the social sector to demonstrate that business by its very nature is not equipped to attack the root causes of major problems like poverty, inequality, violence, and discrimination. Achieving fundamental social transformation requires a different set of operating values--cooperation rather than competition, collective action more than individual effort, and patient, long-term support for systemic solutions over immediate results."
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NYU Wagner Leadership Academy to Focus on How Student Groups Inspirit Community
Student groups often play a key role in shaping the broader student experience, but the rapid pace and competing demands of student life coupled with an ever-changing constellation of peers means that certain leadership challenges remain constant: how student groups can get more people involved, how they can collaborate better to leverage their work and how they can manage leadership transitions to avoid a loss of momentum or organizational history.
The NYU Wagner Leadership Academy helps graduate student group representatives navigate leadership questions together and maximize their effectiveness by learning from each other. The third event of the Academy, in February, will focus on a central contribution student organizations make: representing and inspiriting community.
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NYC Groups can Raise their Visibility with Top Talent at NYU Wagner Career Expo
NYU Wagner and four other nationally prominent public policy
institutions will host a Career Expo on March 11, 2010. As one of the country's largest public service career fairs, the Expo enables participating employers to increase their organizations' visibility among industry peers while making contact with hundreds of interested and qualified master's degree candidates and alumni from across the US.
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Join our team! RCLA has a full-time opening for a Program Administrator. Working closely with RCLA's executive director, this person will manage projects and events, support fundraising efforts,and manage contracts in addition to other responsibilities as part of advancing RCLA's leadership and capacity-building programs.
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As part of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, RCLA will host “Appreciating and Advancing Leadership for the Public Well-Being,” a workshop that brings together a select group of scholars and practitioners from the Middle East and NYU who are committed to illuminating and nurturing leadership for public well-being. Participants will explore leadership that transcends sectors, transforms ordinary citizens into active agents of change, and opens up new public spaces for deliberation and
engagement.
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RCLA is co-sponsoring a screening of the film "From Swastika to Jim Crow" as part of an event series exploring the rich shared history of the Black and Jewish communities in America with the aim of fostering dialogue about current affairs and the possibilities for future collaboration to better our communities, Feb. 4, 2010.
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RCLA will host "Principles and Patterns of Best Practice for
Leadership Development," a Leadership Learning Circle event for people who run or fund leadership development programs in NYC. The event will feature a presentation by Grady McGonagill, PhD on his findings from a comprehensive review of leadership development programs across the US, February 9, 2010.
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Back by popular demand! RCLA's Social Change Leadership Network will host "Essential Tools for Essential Training: Training for Trainers" with Joan Minieri, co-founder of Community Voices Heard. The learning session will connect social change leaders with practical, diverse and effective methods of popular education and training, March 10, 2010.
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At the end of January RCLA and Accenture hosted "The Next Wave in Health Care: Using Health Information Technology for Improving Front Line Programs," the latest in the Leading Large Scale Change executive briefing series. The event explored how New York agencies and institutions are influencing the front lines of health care reform and how City agency clients can benefit from these efforts.
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