Community Leadership Year Program

Leading Teams has designed and delivered a three pronged approach to developing regional leadership in Wimmera through a Community Leadership Year program (which involves a community based project), the Leadership Skills Program, and the Business Leaders Program (which involves a Personal Enterprise Plan). These programs aim to target leaders from a broad cross section of the Wimmera District. In all, 5 courses have been conducted over the past 2 years with over 60 participants taking part.

The programs aim to increase the knowledge, skills and networks of business and community leaders that are involved in large enterprises, small business, or community based volunteer organisations. The programs goal is to encourage local leadership and ownership by providing people with the abilities and confidence to take part in business and community related decision making which increases their skills as part of the process.

Feedback for this program has been very rewarding for the facilitators with several participants expressing significant personal and professional growth. The action learning approach, whilst being new and sometimes bemusing has been embraced as a worthwhile approach to get workshop learning’s into the workplace environment to solve real issues.

Leading Teams facilitators for the program include: Gerard Murphy, Martine Harkin, Craig Biddiscombe, Kraig Grime and Ray McLean.