Twenty First Century Leader and Understanding Your Cultural Values by LEAP
Come Celebrate AWLN's Sixth Anniversary at the WMM Conference!
| Date: | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
| Time: | 5:30 p.m. (sharp) to 6:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers |
| 811 Seventh Avenue (at 53rd Street) | |
| New York , New York 10019-6002 | |
| Reservations/Directions: | (212) 581-1000 or (800) 223-6550 |
| Web site URL: | www.sheraton.com |
6:00 - 7:00PM WMM Networking Cocktail reception Sponsored by Allstate following (open to AWLN attendees)
Audience:The AWLN Leadership session "Twenty First Century Leader and Understanding Your Cultural Values" is free for all AWLN Members and conference attendees.
(Please remember that you may join us for AWLN's break-out session even though you are not attending Working Mother Media's Best Companies for Multicultural Women National Conference.)
TOPIC DETAILS
"Twenty First Century Leader and Understanding Your Cultural Values" by LEAP
Overall Session Goal
This session will present a new leadership framework and characteristics of an effective 21st century leader in a diverse, multicultural society based on LEAP’s leadership philosophy that encourages participants to retain their cultural identity while maximizing their effectiveness. Additional focus will be placed on broadening and deepening participants knowledge of the impact of their Asian cultural values on their behavior and the perceptions that result from their behaviors.
Learning Objectives
- Help participants gain awareness and confidence in their ability to become a 21st century leader
- Understand and discuss the five characteristics of a successful leader in mainstream and multicultural environments based on LEAP’s leadership framework
- Discover how cultural values influences behavior and how behavior is perceived by others.
- Explore the impact of perceptions in professional & personal lives.
- Learn what behaviors are career enhancing or career limiting
- Identify the best places and methods to develop leadership skills
Session Description
What is a leader? In this interactive workshop, LEAP trainers guide participants through an exploration of a new leadership paradigm – one that requires individuals to be comfortable with their own identity and have the ability to operate effectively in the larger society. The impact of perceptions on personal and professional lives will be explored and solutions discussed to rectify misconceptions and misperceptions.. Participants will then be challenged to incorporate key elements of this new leadership model into their own lives so that they can become successful 21st century leaders.
Agenda:
- New Leadership Paradigm
- Definition of a Leader
- Characteristics/skills of a 21st Century Leader
- Understand and leverage relationship between perceptions, behaviors and values
- How leadership skills are developed
- Where leadership skills are developed
About LEAP
Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP) is a national, nonprofit organization founded in 1982 with a mission to achieve full participation and equality for Asian Pacific Americans (APAs). LEAP works to achieve this mission by: Developing People, because leaders are made not born; Informing Society, because leaders know the issues; and Empowering Communities, because leaders are grounded in strong, vibrant communities.
LEAP understands that leaders are made, not born.
With unrivaled experience and a training curriculum designed by and for Asian Pacific Americans, LEAP trains talented leaders for the nonprofit, public, private, and educational sectors. We offer programs and workshops of varying lengths for Asian Pacific Americans and non-Asian Pacific Americans in all sectors. Inspired by LEAP’s training, our graduates have furthered their careers, forged coalitions, and founded organizations and employee groups.
Working Mother Media Conference Information
Join AWLN and other multicultural leaders at Working Mother Media's seventh annual Best Companies for Multicultural Women National Conference at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers from July 21 to 22, 2009: