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Current Woodbury Ambassador Kerubo Mekenye shares her leadership style with a group of local elementary school kids.
Personalities are like snowflakes – there are millions of them, and no two are exactly alike.
A new leadership workshop series sponsored by the Woodbury Royal Ambassadors aims to supercharge that fact by helping local high-school and college-age participants capitalize on who they are as individuals.
The free, weekend workshops – collectively titled “Leading Forward: Step Up, Step Out, Lead Forward“ – begin Saturday Nov. 15 with a 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. session on “The Power of Your Personality.”
The first workshop will be led by Dr Tom Thiegs, a nationally acclaimed leadership coach who travels the country teaching this seminar, typically to Fortune 500 companies.
Lisa Boe, director of the Woodbury Ambassadors Royal Family, explains it this way:
“It’s like an interactive workshop that will help everyone there learn to determine for themselves how their personalities define their leadership styles and how they can make that their super-power, as well as how they can best adapt to people with other styles.”
The workshop will be held at Woodbury’s Ojibway Park Community Building, 2695 Ojibway Park Dr.
It will culminate with participants working together to apply their new-found skills to create a real-world community-service project that would benefit teens at Children’s Hospitals in Minneapolis.
“So by the end of the workshop, they’ll be applying what they’ve learned to actually contribute positively to the community,” Boe observed.
There is no limit on the number of participants, and student status is not a requirement — only a high school/college age. But Boe said interested boys, girls, young women and young men need to register by Nov. 10.
“That’s so we can be sure to have enough workshop packets and other materials for everybody there,” she said.
Boe added: “We’ve been dreaming about doing this for more than 10 years, and we’re now seeing how much bigger the need is in the community – and how much bigger community hunger for it is.”
She sees “The Power Of Your Personality” dovetailing well with related programs organized by other community groups, including the Woodbury Chamber of Commerce and the Woodbury Community Foundation.
Other Ambassadors leadership workshops are scheduled for February and April, with each session offering fundamentally unique perspectives. The Ambassadors have been reaching out to local schools and other community groups for help developing the sessions’ exact topic areas.
“Woodbury has such good leaders in the community, so maybe we can all tap in on what everybody does,” Boe said. “We’ve been thinking, ‘Let’s widen the circle on all this.’”
Click here to register. Visit this website for more information about the Woodbury Ambassador program.