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.
Trainings
Active Listening
Examine the importance of listening, and build active listening skills.
Appreciative Inquiry
A collaborative process that focuses on strengths and possibilities to create a positive future.
Authentic Leadership
Leading with integrity, values, and vulnerability.
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.
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.
Empathy
Examine the impact of empathy on interpersonal relationships.
Group Team and Dynamics
Mastering team dynamics to improve performance (includes communication, shared goals, trust, collaboration, conflict resolution).
Implicit Leadership
Exploring what influences our leadership and follow-ship actions.
Leadership Effective Meetings
Overview of parliamentary procedure and public engagement during meetings.
Nebraska Open Meetings Act
Overview of Nebraska Open Meetings Act.
PsyCap
Applying Positive Psychological capacities (hope, efficacy/confidence, resilience, & optimism).
Social Capital
Participants will understand the importance of building social capital to address complex changes.
Sociocracy
Examine a peer governance system of decision making based on consent and collaboration.
Strategic Planning
Defining your organization's direction, setting goals, and allocating resources to achieve those goals.
Synergy Strategy
How to build synergy on a team using a strengths-based approach.
Transfer of Community Leadership in Rural Communities
Research results from a study examining rural leadership transfer.
Transformational Leadership
Leading through inspiration and working towards a shared vision.
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.
*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