Bankers as community leaders

With the sponsorship of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines, Heartland Center staff will be offering leadership training in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Missouri. Teams of local bankers and their community guests will attend the two-day sessions in each state.

Goals for the sessions focus on how to identify, nurture and support leaders in communities, how to model leadership and how to assume various leadership roles. A unique follow-up plan is in place that will offer technical assistance to communities that participate in the training. If interested, a community may apply for a board skills training session, strategic planning or a town hall meeting. Heartland Center staff would then provide the technical assistance.

Workshop dates have not yet been confirmed but are planned for April through October 2002. For more information, please contact Vicki Luther at Lbv229@aol.com.