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FINDING SOLUTIONS TO ISSUES FACING LOCAL COMMUNITY LEADERS: A UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE
in cooperation with
Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
University Sheraton Hotel, Syracuse, New York
June 7-9, 2007
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The National League of Cities is pleased to offer a series of unique half and full day Leadership Training Institute (LTI) seminars with the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
Specially designed LTI seminars will address decisive issues facing local leaders today to help you effectively pursue your goals and objectives and ensure a foundation for long-term success in your community. Learn from leading scholars and academic experts in a distinctive University setting. Examine vital issues that you are facing today and find workable solutions to put into place back home.
Seminar Agenda
A preliminary schedule of events (subject to change)…
Thursday, June 7, 2007
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Registration – Sheraton Hotel Lobby
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Reception – on campus
Welcome, Michael Wasylenko, Senior Associate Dean, Maxwell School
Friday, June 8, 2007
7:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration – on campus
7:45 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Full Day Seminar
L01: The Power of Interest Based Negotiation Skills and Strategies
- Dr. Neil Katz
8:30 am –12:00 pm Morning Seminar
L02: Practical Local Government Strategic Management
- Mark Lichtenstein
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Afternoon Seminars
L03: Local Economic Development: The Challenges of Community Renewal
- Dr. Lloyd Blanchard
L04: Smart Growth: Collaborative Approaches to Divisive Growth
- Mark Lichtenstein
Saturday, June 9, 2007
8:00 am Continental Breakfast – on campus
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Full Day Seminar
L05: Leaving a Legacy of Excellence
- Catherine Gerard
8:30 am –12:00 pm Morning Seminars
L06: Performance Budgeting in Government
- Dr. Lloyd Blanchard
L07: Infrastructure Management: Learning from Water and Wastewater
- Mark Lichtenstein
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Lunch – on campus
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Afternoon Seminars
L08: Building and Renovating “Green”: Why it Makes Cents for Local Government
- Mark Lichtenstein
L09: Building Sustainable Communities
- Edward Bogucz
5:00 pm Seminars conclude
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Explore new avenues of economic development, infrastructure management, building “green”, smart growth. Broaden your understanding of interest based negotiations, performance budgeting, local government strategic management, building a legacy, and unearth the building blocks of community sustainability. Seminars include…
L01: The Power of Interest Based Negotiation Skills and Strategies — 4 Credits; Competency: Collaborator
What is your negotiation style? Examine the strengths and limitations of your current negotiation style, explore the advantages of negotiation preparation, and develop competence in utilizing an interest-based process for negotiations. Successful public officials collaboratively problem-solve and negotiate with other stakeholders both vertically and horizontally. Learn the skills to gain access, build networks, create alliances, develop commitment, and ensure the loyalty needed to govern and lead. A popular slogan proclaims, “You do not always get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.” Are you successfully negotiating what your community deserves?
L02: Practical Local Government Strategic Management — 2 Credits; Competency: Catalyst
Through involvement in the strategic management process, stakeholders become "owners" of their city's vision and take ownership in the community’s overall quality of life. Examine the Strategy Change Cycle, which includes a readiness assessment, stakeholder mapping, SWOT analysis of the internal and external challenges confronting municipalities, the development of strategic issues and goals, and processes for strategy formulation, implementation and assessment. Discuss the purpose of strategic management, strategic planning frameworks, and the requisite steps for effective strategic planning.
L03: Local Economic Development: The Challenges of Community Renewal — 2 Credits; Competency: Competent Practitioner
Learn the proper tools local leaders need to discern good from bad economic development proposals. Effective tools start with a basic understanding of local economic dynamics in three urban markets –housing, labor, and education. Learn how these markets are inextricably linked, creating the ugly blighted conditions that are targeted by good economic development policy. Local economic development choices often amount to the tradeoff of spending $100,000 to create a $30,000 job. What’s a city official to do when they find themselves in a conundrum over whether the public benefits promoted are worth the long-term tax breaks that the private development partners demand? Examine the tools which provide city officials with a better understanding of which economic development proposals can deliver real net benefits to the city, and which ones will simply benefit the developer.
L04: Smart Growth: Collaborative Approaches to Divisive Growth — 2 Credits; Competency: Collaborator
Examine how difficult issues can be approached collaboratively to find successful paths for change, using principles discussed by consensus-building experts. Smart growth tools are available to local land use decision makers and stakeholders- everything from model ordinances to financial tools. Explore the values important to community members in relation to their own community; teaching people to think through trade-offs and compromises that come into play when doing land use planning; and teaching community leaders step-by-step methods to make change happen at the local level.
L05: Leaving a Legacy of Excellence — 4 Credits; Competency: Cornerstone
Local governments are facing the challenge of ensuring continuous high quality leadership. Explore the three key competencies of effective mentoring—understanding self and others, communicating effectively, and developing leadership competency. Mentoring is seen as a learning partnership that leads to mutual growth and development and a role that requires high degrees of “emotional intelligence” – the ability to be self-aware, to self-regulate, to motivate self and others, to demonstrate empathy and to display effective social skills. Gain a better understanding of yourself and others by examining mentoring with a leadership context and develop the mentoring role associated with communication skills and actions necessary for excellence.
L06: Performance Budgeting in Government — 2 Credits; Competency: Competent Practitioner
Can performance budgeting in government work? Learn how to improve resource allocation decision making and create natural incentives for government managers to improve efficiency in program operations. Profit motive is a powerful driver of most business activity, creating a natural incentive to eliminate inefficiency in operations. Unfortunately, there is no such natural incentive in government operations. As a student of government before he became a U.S. president, Woodrow Wilson once said that government should be run like a business. Explore the efforts to measure, manage, and budget for performance and results comprise attempts to create the government analogue to private sector profit incentives.
L07: Infrastructure Management: Learning from Water and Wastewater — 2 Credits; Competency: Competent Practitioner
Local government manages a plethora of infrastructure intended for the “public good”. This infrastructure includes bridges, roads, solid waste management, and many others. Sewers, sewage treatment plants, drinking water treatment plants, water distribution lines, and a myriad of storage facilities all work to ensure protection of public health and the environment. Examine the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Four Pillars” approach to Sustainable Infrastructure Management by using water and wastewater infrastructure systems as a specific example for a concept that will apply to many other forms of infrastructure.
L08: Building and Renovating “Green”: Why it Makes Cents for Local Government — 2 Credits; Competency: Catalyst
Buildings have a major impact on our natural environment, economy, health, and productivity. In the United States, the built environment accounts for nearly 40% of all energy used and generates similar proportions of pollution. Learn how local governments can improve the bottom line, while protecting the environment and human health at the same time. Market transformations are underway and they are greatly enhancing the way we design, construct, and operate buildings. Examine the opportunities that exist for local governments to cost-effectively convert liabilities into benefits. Continuing advances in technologies, integrated design practices, and growing awareness will continue to transform the way that communities are built.
L09: Building Sustainable Communities — 2 Credits; Competency: Collaborator
Explore creative ideas for producing cohesive, attractive, and economically vibrant communities—for the present and future. Cities, towns and villages are capable of fulfilling their own potential while faced with challenges, such as community conflict, extremism, deprivation and disadvantage. Learn how to empower the community to respond to challenging economic, social and cultural trends. Broaden your understanding of sustainable communities by examining the economic, infrastructure, social, ecological, and political dimensions of a healthy community.
Your Opportunity to Find Solutions and Engage in Results Based Learning
As part of NLC’s mission to strengthen and promote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance, the Leadership Training Institute serves as the primary learning and resource center for leadership development and training for our nation’s local municipal leaders. The Leadership Training Institute recognizes that one of its greatest strengths is based on the collaborative nature of its many programs. As a result, LTI has partnered with the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University to help seminar participants find solutions to those key issues that are important to local leaders to build community success.
Join your colleagues and other local community leaders as you engage with Maxwell School faculty and trainers at Syracuse University in a unique setting that will allow you to learn, discover and create solutions to the challenges facing your community.
Core Competencies and Credits:
Participants may earn a maximum of 8 credits in the NLC Certificate of Achievement in Leadership program for the full two-day seminar program. Four (4) credits will be earned for full-day seminar participation. Two (2) credits will be earned for half day seminar participation. Competency areas earned are identified for each individual seminar. |