A local area seminar is sanctioned by the Hugh
O'brian Youth Leadership Foundation in California.
It will be co-sponsored by the Northern Neck Kiwanis
Club and the Lancaster High School Key Club. It will
be held at Lancaster High School Saturday in January 2000
from 10 am to 2 pm.
We will open it up to all students in Lancaster High
School, not just sophomores as is the case with the
state and international program. In addition, we
will be extending invitations to the students of
the high schools around us (Northumberland, Essex,
Richmond County, Westmoreland County, Colonial Beach,
Middlesex, and Mathews.
The format involves dynamic and challenging speeches
by business, vocational, and community leaders,
spanning a broad cross-section of the area. We will
be soliciting recommendations from the chambers of
commerce.
Our Kiwanis sponsors will be putting together a steering
committee of adult and student leaders for brain
storming. Since the theme is yesterdays leaders
meeting tomarrow's leaders, we will be looking at
experience along values-based leadership to conform
with the school board's desire to partner with the
business community for this kind of presentation.
Good sources for study are:
Maxwell, John C.; The 21 Irrefutable Laws
of Leadership; Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville,
TN, 1998
Wenderlich, Raymond L.; The ABCs of
Successful Leadership; Success Builders, Inc.,
Ellicott City, Maryland, 1997
O'Toole, James; Leading Change - The Argument
for Values-based Leadership; Random House,
New York, 1995
Any other good inspirational and values-based
leadership texts you know of, please advise the
Key Club leadership of.
We hope to raise sponsorships from the business
partnership to place copies of these books in the
high school library and to give away as prizes
during the seminar.
The format of HOBY style leadership seminars is
tried and true. It works. It consists of thought-provoking
speeches by leaders followed by a period of questions
and answers of the speaker. After that, there is a
period of small discussion groups, concluding with
a group sharing of "take home" ideas.
We will be leaving a legacy web page on this site
with the values-based leadership principles for future
students of Lancaster High School. Actually, since
it's on the internet, it can be accessed by the
world.