The Leadership Wabash Valley Program

The nine-month program includes opening and closing retreats and monthly day-long sessions involving extensive leadership skills training and opportunities to explore and learn about the Wabash Valley. The following essential skills and processes are emphasized:

Servant-Leadership/Community Trusteeship

Gifts, Talents, and Learning Styles

Stages of a Learning Community (Group Performance)

Cycle of Change (Experiential Learning)

Collaboration

Dialogue & Consensus Decision-Making and Supporting Components/

Leadership Wabash Valley members represent a wide range of community interests, including Education, Business, Non-Profit, Government, Family & Community Health, Law Enforcement, the Arts, Industry, Youth Services, Military, Volunteer & Service Organizations, Media, Agriculture, Recreation & Sports, and many local churches.

Through service projects and cooperative ventures with community groups, such as Trees Inc., National Road Heritage Trail, Teen Terre Haute, Youth Leadership Terre Haute, and Adopt-a-Spot, Leadership Wabash Valley members are actively improving their community.

Youth Leadership Terre Haute was founded in 1990. In cooperation with the Vigo County School Corporation. Youth Leadership Terre Haute offers leadership skills training for students.

Edibles and Ideas, an ongoing luncheon discussion program, brings together community leadership in a public setting to discuss local issues and concerns.

Valley Point of View, Leadership Wabash Valley’s monthly television program, showcases community issues and events. It is the longest-running public service program in the area.

Community Orientation Workshop is designed as a quick introduction into area education for newcomers.

Implications Wheel and Strategic Matrix are two types of decision-making processes which can enhance your company’s growth.

Individualized Workshops can be designed to meet your company or organization’s needs.

The mission of Leadership Wabash Valley is to identify & train leaders in the communities we serve.

To achieve its purpose, Leadership Wabash Valley brings together community-minded individuals who are dedicated to lifelong learning and service, to studying leadership skills, participating in problem-solving techniques, establishing collaborative connections, and promoting inspiration for personal growth and community trusteeship.

Additionally, the Leadership Wabash Valley Association provides a forum for discussion of current community issues and collaborative networking.

Since its founding in 1978, Leadership Wabash Valley has trained more than 1,000 individuals, more than 75% of whom continue to live in the Wabash Valley. These individuals play a variety of roles in our community and are active in everything from Little League to politics. They serve as volunteers for virtually every service organization and non-profit agency in the community.

The full impact of Leadership Wabash Valley to our community and others can never be accurately measured, but we know that it is significant.

The primary benefits include: a community with more informed citizens trained in problem solving, businesses and organizations with employees trained in leadership and other skills, and individuals who have grown personally and professionally and who have a broader knowledge of the Wabash Valley as well as a circle of contacts throughout the community.

Leadership Wabash Valley
College of Business, Room 517
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
phone: 812.237.3031

Last Updated: August 16, 2005 04:02 PM -0400
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