Leadership Jefferson

To facilitate the intense discussion and interaction we expect from program participants, we must allow them to develop a mutual respect and connection with each other. The opening retreat focuses on recognizing individual leadership abilities and their application in a team environment. During the overnight opening retreat, program participants engage in a full day and a half of sessions and enjoy a class dinner to end the first full day. This retreat is the start of learning new leadership skills, challenging their comfort zones, and forming new friendships.

The class learns about the Emergenetics of their brains and how we all work together as structural, analytical, social, or conceptual leaders and colleagues. Through activities and discussion, each class member learns more about how and why we act and react in various situations.

       

This session bridges the Opening Retreat with the framework for the rest of the year. A trip to Westwego kicks off the first official session of the year with a focus on improving the quality of life and place in our parish. We invite Jefferson Parish government leaders to speak about ongoing and upcoming projects for various parts of the community, and we tour surrounding historical and arts museum galleries.

   
   

Healthcare is crucial to the quality of life in Jefferson Parish. The session seeks to identify the key concerns our region is facing in healthcare. We invite leaders from major healthcare systems, including LCMC, Ochsner Health, and Tulane, to speak about the positive outlook and growing concerns in the healthcare industry.

   

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A bright and healthy future for Jefferson Parish rests on the area’s economic development. By introducing program participants to the major players in the Parish’s development (like JEDCO and GNO, Inc), the program successfully makes a large concept an understandable subject. Historically, this session includes a behind the scenes tour of the Port of New Orleans.

    

A panel is invited to field questions by participants on the growing concern of our national educational system and how new bills/laws will affect us locally. A visit to a Jefferson Parish school rounds out the day. This day proves to increase the perspective and understanding of education and its connection to the economic and workforce development of Jefferson Parish and our region.

    

Participants spend the day building a shared understanding of what diversity, equity and inclusion should mean within the context of workplace objectives. Program participants create awareness of their personal knowledge, understanding, acceptance, and behavior with reference to diversity, and they expand their knowledge of perceptions that create misconceptions.

   

A major challenge facing communities across the country is educating and informing citizens about our government and criminal justice systems. This session gives program participants an insight into our parish’s courts, law enforcement, and emergency operations. Historically, this session includes a behind the scenes tour of the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center and the JPSO Crime Lab.

   
   

The Community Involvement session encourages program participants to get involved in Jefferson Parish and to advocate for an improved social wellbeing. We invite nonprofit organizations to educate program participants on their organization and ways to get involved.

The Closing Session is the final session to conclude the Leadership Jefferson program. During this session, program participants reflect on the year and apply their new leadership skills. This day ends with a final class dinner to celebrate the completion of the program with fellow program participants and facilitators.

   
   

Program participants gather for their final event, a graduation ceremony commemorating the learning experiences and friendships they have made. Each program participant is awarded a completion plaque.