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4TH ANNUAL LEAP EVENT HELD IN BELOIT WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH

 

Fourth Annual LEAP Event Held Wednesday Evening

by Terry Bailey

 

The Leadership Mitchell County organization held their fourth annual LEAP event Wednesday evening at the Down Under Ballroom. The acronym LEAP stands for Leadership Energy in Action Program. The theme of the two thousand fourteen banquet was – MORE PEOPLE INVOLVED, MORE EFFECTIVELY, MORE OFTEN.

 

The Leadership Mitchell County Class of two thousand fifteen was announced. The new group will consist of: Clint Shoemaker, Liz Jeffery, Jennifer Hallack, Janea Peters, Jeanine Kintigh, Jennifer Giersch, Jessi Day, Josh Fixsen, Justin Rexroat, Kelly Schmitt, Kristi Ohnsat, Neil Cates, Ryan Duskie, and Bob Stewart.

The facilitator and speaker for the evening’s activities was Kevin Bomhoff. Bomhoff is a Community Facilitator and is a faculty member at Wichita State University.

Bomhoff began the evening talking about various styles of leadership. We have charismatic leaders such as John Kennedy. We have moral leaders such as Mother Theresa and Martin Luther King. Eleanor Roosevelt was a situational leader due to her husband’s disabilities. We have servant leaders who spend their time behind the scene and sweeping up afterward.

Some people are elected to be leaders and do not lead,” observed Bomhoff. “Other people become leaders but are never elected to that position. The bottom line is anybody can be a leader at any time.”

A quick look was taken at last year’s aspirations and concerns. Bomhoff asked, “How much progress was made? If progress was not made, why was that?”

To answer that question, Bomhoff likened progress to having one’s laptop computer fixed when it has problems. He asked, “What do we do in that situation?” Everyone agreed they would call the IT guy and he would fix it. Problem solved right away with no effort from us.

He said in community problems or concerns we often approach “fixing” them with the same mind set. Almost never can our community problems be fixed like a broken computer. These challenges are adaptive meaning the “fix” is a long way away. We must focus on making progress. All too often people look for the quick fix that does not exist and become discouraged when the fix is not quick and painless.

Summing up, Bomhoff asked the audience to ask, “What can I do?” He encouraged them to remember that solving community concerns is a process that starts slow with many people doing small things. As momentum is accelerated, bigger and bigger problems can be tackled by the entire community. By the yard, it is very hard. By the inch, it is a cinch.

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