Welcome to the Engine Dynamic Leaders Program.

This program is designed for highly-skilled professionals with diverse backgrounds to work collaboratively to develop professional skills while also serving the community in a high-impact way. The following is an overview of the defined meetings for cohort #1 for 2012.

Meeting

Contents
Purpose: Welcome to the Engine Program. We will introduce you to Engine and our partner, The Prouty Project. The meeting will cover:

Details

Kickoff

Meet the Nonprofit

Orientation to Engine and get to know other participants Team Development Frameworks, Project Management Skills Non Profit Orientation (General and project-specific) Purpose: The first half this meeting will be to understand the Discovery Insights profile. The second half of the meeting will be on-location at the office of the nonprofit for which the participants are doing a consulting project. The second half of the meeting will be off-site to meet each teams specific nonprofit at the nonprofit office Purpose: Explore and define the project charter and early stages of the final deliverables. At this meeting, the project-teams will meet in their small groups and then discuss their initial concepts with the other groups in the cohort. Also, Prouty will facilitate exercises on Emotional Intelligence and Executive Presence. Purpose: unearth all of the potential solutions (based on research phase) to the challenges of the project. The meeting serves to begin bucketing and qualifying the ideas for deeper understanding and development. Engine will facilitate ideation sessions with each project team and capture pertinent outcomes of the meeting. Also, the Citizens League will deliver the first half of the Quantum Civics program. Purpose: Teams meet to do a status check, recap the first half of the projects and prepare for the 75% meeting with the nonprofit. Also, the Citizens League will deliver the second half of the Quantum Civics program. Purpose: Prouty will facilitate Speaking with Impact workshop for the first 90 minutes of this meeting.

1/26/12 2-6PM

2/2/12 2-6PM

Research Meeting

2/16/12 2-6PM

Ideation Meeting

3/1/12 2-6PM

50% Meeting

3/15/12 2-6PM

75% Meeting

90% Meeting Deliverable Meeting Wrap-up

The second 90 minutes will be to provide an update to the nonprofit leadership on progress and status. The nonprofit leaders will provide feedback and further refine the direction of the project. Purpose: Finalize the deliverable and prepare for delivering the final presentation to the nonprofit Purpose: Deliver the final presentation of recommendations for action and implementation to the nonprofit. This meeting will be at the nonprofit location for each specific project. Purpose: Recap the Engine experience and socialize with team members and other members of the cohort.

3/29/12 2-6PM

4/12/12 2-6PM 4/26/12 2-6PM 5/3/12 2-6PM

Each of these meetings will be held at the Engine office (91 South 10th Street Minneapolis, MN 55403) unless otherwise specified. Also, dinner or snacks and refreshments will be provided at each meeting. We look forward to your participation.

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