Western Extension Leadership Development (WELD)
All applications for the WELD V program are due to the office of Extension Dean and Director or emailed to extension@wsu.edu November 10, 2008.
The Western Extension Leadership Development (WELD) program that is offered every two-year is designed for Cooperative Extension faculty, agents, advisors, educators, and specialists in the Western United States and territories.
The WELD Program coaches and assists participants to learn and apply leadership skills. Specific objectives include:
- Participants will develop awareness and appreciation of their own and others' leadership styles and learn to apply appropriate techniques in working with diverse individuals.
- Participants will develop skills and enable themselves and others to develop, articulate, and implement organization/group direction.
- Participants will enable the organization/group to effectively implement planned change.
- Participants will develop skills to enable others to work together effectively.
The WELD V Program will contain four sequential learning experiences:
- A self-analysis activity and leadership inventory exercise called Human Patterns illustrates the dimensions of organizational leadership and the roles played by all of its members. Participants will begin thinking about elements of a personal plan for developing leadership skills. Pre-assessments will begin in early 2009.
- An active WELD V Seminar 1 will be held March 30 – April 3, 2009, in Denver, Colorado. The seminar will include: discussion and application of leadership inventory work, articulating vision and defining direction, motivating others to take action and facilitating change, working together through teams, effective communication, and initiation of an individual innovative project, working with a mentor, for skill application.
- WELD V Seminar 2 will be held in June 2010 at a location to be announced. During Seminar 2, WELD participants present their innovative projects to the entire group, including the WELD V Planning Committee.
- During the WELD V Seminar 2, continued training sessions will be planned encompassing such topical areas as empowered leadership, essential facilitation skills, ethical decision making, conflict management, and other topics as identified as useful by the WELD V participants themselves.
If you have any further questions about the WELD V Program, please feel free to contact Doug Stienbarger at 360-397-6060x7716 or by e-mail at stiendm@wsu.edu or contact your state’s representative on the WELD V Planning Committee (see informational flyer).
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