ALVA Course Materials
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ALVA Participant Bios
Read bios of 2008-2009 participants:
Word format:
Session 1 Assignments
Readings
- Participant's Guide - Chapter 1: Know Yourself
- Participant's Guide - Chapter 2: Dimensions of Leadership
- Purposeful Lives: Guiding Life Cycle Transitions: A Talking Paper from Jan Hively:
- Link to Marshall Ganz's Web module on organizing.
Professor Ganz is a long-time organizer; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and a principal of Harvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Review the introduction material and the section about Leadership. - "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman
Exercises
- Participant's Guide - Lifework (p. 15)
Journal Topic
Who are the leaders in your life that you have admired? Why?
Notes
This section includes the following pages:
- Session 1 October 2008 -
- Session 2 November 2008 - Session 2, November 14, focused on the dimensions of leadership.