Other Resources
Kentucky Leadership Programs
Several programs in Kentucky offer specialized leadership professional development or trainings. Check out these outstanding program websites for more information.
The Leadership Kentucky Foundation offers four unique programs:
- Leadership Kentucky (for professionals and business leaders, 7-month program)
- BRIGHT Kentucky (for Eastern Kentucky residents, 5-month program)
- ELEVATE Kentucky (for young professionals, 3-month program)
- New Executives to Kentucky (for new residents, 1-day program)
While each program has a different type of participant, the goal of each program is to prepare our participants to take an active role in advancing the state for the common good. By fostering an understanding of how the state’s issues are interconnected, and by forging new relationships among community and regional leaders, the participants bring a fresh and informed perspective to their communities and companies, serving as important leaders in the unified effort to shape Kentucky’s future.
The Leadership Louisville Center is the resource for engaging talent development training, experiential learning, and access to transformative perspectives. For over 45 years, the Center has helped individuals and organizations make an impact with confidence, connection, and courage – helping them go beyond being successful to being truly significant.
The mission of The Leadership Center is to develop and equip leaders through comprehensive programs and training. At The Leadership Center, we believe our community's competitive advantage is our leaders. We are working to turn today's West Kentucky workforce into tomorrow's leaders. The Leadership Center is the hub of many leadership training, professional development, and workforce-related programs.
Community Facilitation and Processes
The Community Tool Box is a collection of detailed facilitator tools for moving community actions forward. Tools may be useful for your Community Leadership Program planning committee for ideas in designing public interaction activities, and may serve as a guide for leadership project teams. Tools include skill building, connecting, and taking action in communities.
Facilitation Icebreakers
Sessions Lab is a robust resource of activities for skill building and leadership development. The facilitation library will support Community Leadership Programmers and facilitators a host of activities to integrate into your program. Resources are searchable by purpose including: Teambuilding, Energizers/Mixers, idea generation, issue resolution, Issue analysis, Facilitating group action, skill development, and even tools for remote facilitation.
Cooperative Extension based Resources
Extension Community Development
The Extension Community Development Library is a collection of Cooperative Extension developed processes and materials to support work in facilitating community development and change. Compiled through the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, the site offers a phased planning process model and a searchable subject area database for resources.
Extension Leadership Development
Cooperative Extension has a strong history for developing and implementing leadership programming. Ranging from individual, to organizational, to community focused activities, Cooperative Extension Leadership development resources include:
Leadership Excellence And Dynamic Solutions (LEADS) is available through Kansas State University and provides a rich resource of leadership development exercises and activities.
Kentucky Leadership Extension Development (KELD) materials are designed for a leadership programmer to pick up a guide and facilitate. Topics range from individual leadership development to organizational and community engagement skill building exercises.
Turning Lemons into Lemonade is an Extension Curriculum to support conflict resolution. Written by Dr. Ron Hustedde of UK, it stands as a good source of ideas for identifying and responding to conflict.
Publications by topic from UK relating to leadership development can be found through Blueprint Kentucky and through the Community and Leadership Development Department.
Recommended Books
Community Leadership Development: A Compendium of Theory, Research and Application is an exceptional source of information for Community Leadership program developers. The book provides evidence and research-based information from which to root your program activities.
The Community Development Series – this 20 book special series explores topics important to community development, and could serve as an excellent foundation of ideas from which a leadership program might launch community change initiatives.
Community Effects of Leadership Development Education; Citizen Empowerment for Civic Engagement. This book is a summation of a multi-state evaluation of civic leadership programs to assess the impacts of Community Leadership Development Education (CLDE) programs.
The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources provides practical methods and ideas for engaging community members in efforts to impact community change.
Who Moved My Cheese – by Spencer Johnson & Kenneth Blanchard. 1998. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN-13: 9780399144462 Is an easy to read, story based allegory that explores the resistance to change and how to overcome it.
That’s Not How We Do Things Here; A Story About How Organizations Rise and Fall - and Can Rise Again – by Dr. John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. An easy to read metaphor that explains the resistance to change and the important role innovation plays in individual, organizational, and community survival.
