Columbus, Georgia

Leadership?on?the Line:

Meeting the Challenges?of Leading Local Government

August 25-27, 2005 ? Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston ? Cambridge, MA

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Exercising real leadership?taking initiative, putting new ideas on the table,

taking personal risks without knowing if you will be successful, asking people

to face up to challenging realities, motivating difficult conversations that

others may be avoiding?can complicate your life.? Exercising real leadership is

making the lives of people around you?in your work, in your communities, in

your families?better.? Often, exercising leadership means transcending the

authority you are given to tackle the challenge at hand.

Explore the Dangers of Leadership

Explore the difficulties and opportunities in exercising leadership.? Examine

why the exercise of leadership is different from practicing good management and

exercising authority.? Build the skills and knowledge required to be effective

in taking on these tasks and increasing your ability to be successful; develop

frameworks and practical techniques that will be useful in analyzing situations

you are confronting.?

Develop Skills for Exercising Leadership and Staying Alive

Focus on analytic and political skill development, including the capacity to

distinguish technical from adaptive work; assessing where others are; delving

beneath the issue; how to read authority figures for clues; finding partners in

the enterprise; keeping the opposition close; accepting responsibility and

ownership; modeling behavior; and accepting causalities.? Learn about

orchestrating the conflict, giving the work back, and how to hold steady so

that attention is focused on the right issues.

Overcome the Challenges for Leading Local Government

Join author and leadership scholar Marty Linsky, along with Cambridge

Leadership Associates trainers Jay Kaufman, and Sousan Abadian, as you engage

in a dynamic and reflective program that confronts the challenges of leadership

in local government.? Make your plans now to participate in the 13th Annual

Leadership Summit at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston in Cambridge, MA.? The

National League of Cities? Leadership Training Institute presents a program

designed to enhance your success and understanding of your leadership role and

responsibilities as an elected official.

Core Competency:

Cornerstone? 10 Credits in the Certificate of Achievement in Leadership program

LEADERSHIP SUMMIT PRESENTERS?

Marty Linsky is an author, scholar, principal of Cambridge Leadership

Associates, LLC, and faculty member at the John F. Kennedy School of Government

at Harvard.? Linsky has extensive experience as a consultant, facilitator, and

trainer in leadership, ethics, external relations, press relations, political

relations, communications, strategic planning, and discussion-based teaching in

the US and abroad.? At Harvard, he teaches about leadership, press, politics,

legislatures, and public management; he has been Faculty Chair of several of

the School's Executive Programs on leadership and public management, including

Leadership for the 21st Century.? Linsky returned to Harvard in 1995 after

three years as Chief Secretary and then Counselor to Governor William Weld of

Massachusetts.? Former positions include serving as a Member and Assistant

Minority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; Assistant

Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Assistant Director,

Institute of Politics, Harvard; Executive Editor, The Advocates, PBS; Editor,

The Real Paper; editorial writer and reporter, The Boston Globe.? Linsky is

co-author with Ronald Heifetz of Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through

the Dangers of Leadership, (Harvard Business School Press April 2002);

Jay Kaufman is an associate with the Cambridge Leadership Associates and

currently serves as a State Representative in the Massachusetts House of

Representatives since 1995, where he has initiated many pieces of new

legislation.? Kaufman has enjoyed a varied career in which he has both

practiced and experienced the challenges of adaptive leadership.? He has

launched a monthly public policy forum, initiated and chaired a special

commission on alternative funding sources for public education, as well as

proposed and served on a special commission on complementary and alternative

medicine.? Kaufman has also served as the Director of A New Public Education,

as a strategic planning consultant, an educator, and has served in numerous

civic positions.?

Sousan Abadian?is an associate with the Cambridge Leadership Associates, based

in Cambridge, MA, where she has considerable experience teaching, consulting

and facilitating work in organizations within the adaptive leadership framework

as applied by CLA.? Abadian has engaged in research and intervention related to

aboriginal peoples in the United States and abroad.? Abadian is a graduate of

Swarthmore College and also holds two masters? degrees and a Ph.D. in Political

Economy and Government from Harvard University.

Leadership on the Line: Meeting the Challenges of Local Government

Preliminary schedule of events for the Summit (subject to change)?

Thursday, August 25th

????????????????8:00 a.m.? Registration

???9:00 ? 11:30 a.m. ?Leadership Training Council meeting (LTC Members only)

? ?9:00 ?? ?5:30 p.m. ?Leadership Bookstore open

?12:00 ?? ?1:30 p.m. ?Lunch

? ?1:30 ? ? 5:00 p.m.? The Framework of Adaptive Leadership: Distinctions in

Exercising Leadership

????????????????????????????? ? ?- Marty Linsky, Jay Kaufman, and Sousan Abadian

????????????? ??6:00 p.m.?Welcoming Reception

Friday, August 26th

?????? ???? ? ? ?8:00 a.m.? Continental Breakfast

? ?8:00 ??? 5:30 p.m.? Leadership Bookstore open

? ?8:30 ??? 3:00 p.m.? Guest/Spouse Tour of Cambridge and Boston area

? ?8:30 ? 12:00 noon?Why Leadership is Difficult - Marty Linsky, Jay Kaufman,

and Sousan Abadian

?12:00 ?? ?1:30 p.m.? Lunch

? ?1:30 ??? 5:00 p.m.? Why Leadership is Dangerous - Marty Linsky, Jay Kaufman,

and Sousan Abadian

???????? ???? ? 6:00 p.m.? An Evening Cruise on Boston Harbor

Saturday, August 27th

?????????? ?? ? ?8:00 a.m.? Continental Breakfast

? ?8:00 ??? 2:00 p.m. ?Leadership Bookstore open

???8:30 ? 12:00 noon?Developing the Skills and Staying Alive: Analysis of

Technical and Adaptive Challenges?

???????????????????????????? ???- Marty Linsky, Jay Kaufman, and Sousan Abadian

?12:00 ?? ?1:30 p.m.? Lunch

???????????????????????????? ??? Summit concludes

Registration:

The registration fee includes the full three-day training program and six meal

functions and breaks, including a reception, two continental breakfasts, and

three lunches.? The Spouse/Guest registration fee includes all of the meal

functions and a full-day tour on Friday.?

Early Bird Registration (faxed or postmarked by March 1, 2005)

?____ $595? Member City

?____ $195? Spouse/Guest Fee

Advance Registration (faxed or postmarked by July 1, 2005)

?____ $695? Member City

?____ $245? Spouse/Guest Fee

Late Registration (faxed or postmarked after July 1, 2005)

?____ $795? Member City

?____ $295? Spouse/Guest Fee

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For more information, call (202) 626-3127 or email?Dwight Horkheimer?at

horkheimer@nlc.org?



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