The Community Leadership Development team helps rural Nebraska communities strengthen their leadership capacity through customized trainings, workshops, and statewide events. These programs are designed to enhance local leadership, foster generational transitions, and empower residents to drive sustainable community growth. Reach out to the team to create a program tailored to your community’s unique goals and needs. Here is a list of the trainings and programs we offer. Contact Jamie Bright at jamie.bright@unl.edu for more information.
Trainings for Personal Leadership Skill-Building
Active Listening
Examine the importance of listening, and build active listening skills.
CliftonStrengths
Through this Gallup assessment and coaching: Discover what you naturally do best, learn how to develop your greatest talents into strengths, and use your personalized results and reports to maximize your potential.
*Content is proprietary.
Conflict Management
Identifying conflict styles and using practical strategies to manage conflicts effectively.
Data: Finding and Using
Using All Things Nebraska and other data sources to understand your community.
Government/Nonprofit Leadership Trainings
Community Engagement
Community engagement strategies and application.
Conflict Management
Identifying conflict styles and using practical strategies to manage conflicts effectively.
Data: Finding and Using
Using All Things Nebraska and other data sources to understand your community.
Group & Team Dynamics
Mastering team dynamics to improve performance (includes communication, shared goals, trust, collaboration, conflict resolution).
Leading Effective Meetings
Overview of parliamentary procedure and public engagement during meetings.
Nebraska Open Meetings Act
Overview of Nebraska Open Meetings Act.
Sociocracy
Examine a peer governance system of decision making based on consent and collaboration.
Synergy Strategy
How to build synergy on a team using a strengths-based approach.
Youth/Adult Partnerships
Learning to collaborate with youth by sharing power and decision-making responsibilities.
Workforce Development Leadership Trainings
Conflict Management
Identifying conflict styles and using practical strategies to manage conflicts effectively.
Group & Team Dynamics
Mastering team dynamics to improve performance (includes communication, shared goals, trust, collaboration, conflict resolution).
Synergy Strategy
How to build synergy on a team using a strengths-based approach.
Ways RPN Can Help Facilitate Community Projects
Appreciative Inquiry
A collaborative process that focuses on strengths and possibilities to create a positive future.
Community Capitals
High level overview of community capitals.
Community Engagement
Community engagement strategies and application.
Community Readiness
Understanding the readiness of communities to address change.
Data: Finding and Using
Using All Things Nebraska and other data sources to understand your community.
Leadership Theory
We will work with your community/group to discover which leadership theory is most applicable to your situation and help you use that form of leadership to move forward.
Social Capital
Participants will understand the importance of building social capital to address complex changes.
Strategic Planning
Defining your organization's direction, setting goals, and allocating resources to achieve those goals.
Visioning
A collaborative approach to planning where community members envision their future and plan how to achieve it.
Youth/Adult Partnerships
Learning to collaborate with youth by sharing power and decision-making responsibilities.
Research Findings on Community Leadership
Transfer of Community Leadership in Rural Communities
Research results from a study examining rural leadership transfer.
*Fees dependent on training length, location, and trainer availability.
Contact Us
JAMIE BRIGHT
RPN Extension Educator
308-254-4455
jamie.bright@unl.edu
LINDSAY HASTINGS
Professor of Leadership
402-472-3477
lhastings2@unl.edu