21st Century Leadership for Youth Leaders
Whether you believe that leaders are born or created, one common point is that leadership skills can be developed. This training program will give young leaders the chance to open developmental pathways to become the powerful 21st Century Leaders they wish to be.
This leadership program draws from content taught in business schools, postgraduate and industry leadership programs. This is an engaging program which has been designed in a manner which can take different directions depending on the developmental stages, interests and capacities of the participants.
Participants should expect to:
• Learn theories of leadership and ways to apply these theories;
• Assess their capacity to lead and find their growing edges;
• Assess their leadership style;
• Identify methods of managing modern leadership and sustainability challenges;
• Collaborate with their peers and deliberate on case studies of modern leadership;
• Learn new and traditional methods to improve your leadership.
About the Facilitator:
Maurice Burke is a tri-sector leader who has held leadership roles in the public, private and non-profit sector. His accomplishments started with a decorated period of work as a youth advocate. He has led youth leadership and developmental programs in six Caribbean territories and even as far afield as South Korea in which he was a Director in an international youth program executed twice in a three year span.
In 2008 Maurice was awarded the National Youth Award in Advocacy by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. In the same year, the youth organisation he founded was awarded as outstanding Community Youth Organisation of the Year at the National Youth Awards.
In 2009 he was appointed to the Youth Task Force for the planning of Commonwealth Youth Forum 7 just prior to taking up employment as the Secretary General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Council of Trinidad and Tobago.
Of note, Maurice has played pivotal roles in several places, including:
• The establishment of the Caribbean Volunteer Exchange, which allows leaders of national volunteer organisations to collaboarate on a service project while exchanging best practices from their local programs;
• The development, establishment and management of the Inter Agency Unit, a government pilot program to harmonise the state response to the street dweller population in Trinidad and Tobago;
• Pilotting Municipal Reform in Trinidad and Tobago, via drafting policy, reconfiguring the organisational setting of a Municipal Corporation, and managing the resultant units of the reconfiguration exercise.
Maurice continues to serve in the Trinidad and Tobago Cadet Force as a Captain, and Unit Commander, while managing the Public Affairs portfolio of the organisation.