Discover Your Inner Leader was designed by the Minnesota Library Association to develop skills necessary for leadership in your library, professional organization, city or state.
In this eighteen month program you are paired with a mentor of similar type library and share an intense three day workshop getting to know the others involved in the program. Throughout the upcoming months you will take a strength finder test, do some mind mapping, actively develop personal and professional goals. Learn to network with the current class plus other graduates of this outstanding program.
Programs like this are greatly needed to provide a safe environment to grow, stretch your wings, learn to search for newer, better ways to run organizations and make a network of mentors that you can call on for help with possible solutions.
Now that being said, I have been in school libraries for about 31+ years and public libraries for almost 5 years. I was a graduate of the 2002 Rochester Chamber Leadership program and gained leadership knowledge, skills, and a great network of friends and mentors.
I now think I am in a position to take on this type of institute to gain further knowledge on how to be a better and more effective leader. I would like to try to be one of the 25 people selected for the 2009 MLA Institute for Leadership Excellence and be a more effective leader for the library industry.
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