Eight complete 2008 Vision Leadership Class

The Rooks County Leadership Class, Vision 2008, completed their training on October 22, 2008, ending four weeks of work on learning styles, visioning, performing groups, and group facilitation.  This years participants came from Stockton, Plainville, Damar, and Codell.

The class was recognized at a graduation celebration at Cedar Links Country Club on Wednesday, December 17.  Many alumni from the Vision program, now numbering nearly 50, were also in attendance.

Economic Development Director Roger Hrabe conducted the training emphasizing servant leadership as part of a program originally funded by the Kansas Health Foundation to promote the development of leadership throughout Kansas.  Hrabe went through a two-year program to prepare for training other individuals and groups.

"Our goal is building leadership that focuses on helping individuals become more effective facilitators in the groups that they already serve by understanding different learning styles, the importance of creating vision, and the importance of consensus and collaboration," Hrabe stated. "If individuals within a group better understand themselves and others within their group, and understand the process of becoming a performing group, then they will notice positive change. We have to change if we are going to keep pace."

Members of the Vision 2008 class included Everett Reeve, Laura Montgomery, Sami Werner, Roque Garcia, Ed Rath, Ruthie Muir, Kim Northup (not pictured), and Jana Sutton (not pictured).