WATKINS GLEN, NY - Looking to enrich your leadership skills? Learn from the most inspirational leaders in the community? Make connections that will fuel the growth of your business? Do you have an employee that you are looking to move up in the ranks, but they need leadership training that you simply don’t have time to give them? Look no further! Leadership Schuyler is now accepting applications.
Since 2001, the Leadership Schuyler Program has been giving today’s managers the skills they need to become tomorrow’s leaders. The program has helped prepare more than 250 participants for community leadership roles. The purpose of the program is to teach highly valuable leadership skills to current and future leaders working in or around Schuyler County. The program helps residents and employees of local businesses strengthen their knowledge of community issues, facilitate positive problem solving techniques, and encourages them to take active leadership roles.
The program’s facilitator, Rebekah Carroll, IOM is the Executive Director of the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, is actively involved in the community, and serves on the Schuyler County Partnership for Economic Development (SCOPED), Finger Lakes Wine Country, the League of Women Voters, and Watkins-Montour Rotary Club’s boards of directors. As a 2009-2010 Leadership Schuyler graduate, she said “Leadership Schuyler is such a necessary program for our community. It provides something that no other program in Schuyler County can – a micro community of individuals focused on investing in their professional growth, as well as the growth of every other leader in the room! Professional development is key to growing our community.”
Areas of focus and guest presenters include:
· Orientation – Rebekah Carroll, President/CEO of the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce and Matthew Sharpe, CEO/President, Cameron Manufacturing & Design
· Managing Time – Matthew Sharpe
· Communicating Clearly – Brittany Gibson, Executive Director of Seneca Lake Winery Association
· Making Decisions – Scott Bell, General Manager of the Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel
· Motivating People – Randi Hewit, Executive Director of Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes
· Managing Teams – Matthew Sharpe
· Presenting Successfully – Kelley Bacalles, Principal of Beecher Elementary School
· Managing Change – Tim O’Hearn, Schuyler County Administrator and Greg Kelahan, Superintendent of the Watkins Glen Central School District
· Minimizing Stress – Sue Silhan, Owner of Selah Yoga
· And many more
The program begins with an orientation session held on Thursday, October 17, 2019, from 8:00am to 11:30am at the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, 214 North Franklin Street. The cost to attend Leadership Schuyler is $650 per person. Chemung-Schuyler-Steuben Workforce New York is offering possible reimbursement for up to 50% of the cost of training. Candidates must complete an application form and provide two professional references. A maximum of only 20 individuals will be selected for the program. Applications are due by October 11, 2019. For additional information or to obtain an application, please contact Liz Salamendra at 607-535-4300 or by email: liz@watkinsglenchamber.com. Applications are also available online: www.watkinsglenchamber.com/chamber-info/events/educational.
