NWA Emerging Leaders
The NWAEL Legacy Workgroup has developed a certification for board service to assist emerging leaders in pursuing leadership and service positions and to create a reputable source for organizations to recruit emerging talent to serve in leadership capacities.
Thursday, March 1 8:15 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
University of Arkansas Global Campus
3300 Market St., Ste. 402
$50 per person for members of NWA Emerging Leaders
Register here for this event. Space is limited to first 25.
Northwest Arkansas Emerging Leaders will present its annual board service certification program for emerging leaders on Thursday, March 1, 2012 at the University of Arkansas Global Campus at the Arkansas World Trade Center in Rogers. The program will focus on four key areas of board service: commitments and expectations, legal and ethical considerations, finance and fundraising.
The NWAEL Legacy Workgroup formed with a vision of creating a leadership pool in order to link ready, willing and able emerging talent to organizations, public and private boards, commissions and other areas of leadership need to benefit the community. We aim to prepare participants for leadership and service positions in northwest Arkansas.
Certification Seminar Agenda (subject to minor changes)
8:15 8:45 a.m. Registration & Networking
8:45 9:00 a.m. Welcome, Introductions & Opening Remarks
9:00 9:30 a.m. Session 1: Plugging Into the Right Organization
9:30 10:00 a.m. Session 2: Board Service Commitments & Expectations
10:15 11:15 a.m. Session 3: Legal & Ethical Considerations of Board Service
11:15 12:00 Session 4: Your Role in Fundraising
12:00 1:15 p.m. Lunch/Keynote Speakers: Mayors Greg Hines (Rogers) and Bob McCaslin (Bentonville)
1:30 2:30 p.m. Session 5: Financial Considerations of Board Service
2:45 3:45 p.m. Session 6: Public Service
4:00 4:30 p.m. Closing, Charge and Introduction of Nonprofits
4:30 5:30 p.m. Networking Happy Hour: attendees, panelists & area non-profit organizations
For more information on the NWA Emerging Leader Board Service Certification Seminar, contact communications@NWALead.com.
Thursday, March 15 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, Rogers
Free & Open to all members of NWA Emerging Leaders with RSVP requested here
Get to know your fellow Emerging Leaders at an informational and fun Happy Hour at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in Rogers. Come to network, relax with friends or even further your professional development by learning about the new Legacy Project.
In all likelihood, when you joined the Northwest Arkansas Emerging Leaders, you intended to be an active participant in an organization that would provide programs with substance, opportunities to develop yourself as a current or future community leader and connections to the people and ideas that are active changemakers in our community. Hopefully you have found that, and we will continue to plan compelling programs as well as offer chances for you to plug in as a leader through workgroups.
The NWAEL Legacy Workgroup is launching a program open to all members of NWA Emerging Leaders wishing to actively and aggressively tackle their personal and professional development. The Legacy Workgroup is currently best known for its annual Board Service Certification program designed to help ready, willing and able leaders develop the specific skills required for serving in leadership capacities on nonprofit, for-profit and government boards and commissions.
The new Legacy Project is based on the concept of mastermind groups, which are common in many communities. The idea is essentially to develop your own personal board of directors. Another definition: an intelligent group that shares resources, makes connections and provides critical feedback in order to improve, grow and build businesses, careers and lives. While the way each specific group functions varies based upon its members, an unwritten core value is typically that such groups are steady (members do not come and go), elite (in that members are hand-picked), intelligent and often real doers. The group structure is informal, but its focus is anything but. Most groups would meet monthly at a time that suits the members.
The common theme of a Legacy Group is that the members feed off one another, their wheels turn a hundred miles an hour, and they are mutually vested in one another's success. To express your interest, learn more about how to get involved in the Legacy Project, how to form a group and what to expect, join members of the NWAEL Legacy Workgroup or contact Legacy Group chair Beth Stephens (beth@onsc.us).
Take charge of your legacy!
NWA Emerging Leaders is an initiative of the Rogers-Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce. For more information on this program, contact Michael@RogersLowell.com.
NWA Emerging Leaders is an initiative of the Rogers-Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce, however, Chamber membership is not required for participation.
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