Leadership Blog

Happy New Year from all of us at Leadership Menomonee Falls.  We have an awesome session planned this month.  It is a joint meeting with the Germantown Leadership Program.  There will be over 40 amazing leaders coming together to learn more about our healthcare system and to network to serve others more effectively.

We will be meeting at Community Memorial Hospital – which is such a fitting location for our first meeting of the year.  A location that inspirational with the level of commitment to the service to others.

We will have the opportunity to meet physicians, nurses, department managers and administrators; to learn more about the workings of the hospital and the effect of healthcare on our community.
Our participants will also participate in networking and teamwork building.  We will be challenging our leaders from two communities to come together and work for a common goal. 

At Leadership Menomonee Falls we like to challenge our participants, by giving them opportunities to go outside their comfort zone.  We do that by group activities and great discussion.

My challenge to you this month is to find someone who could benefit from the Leadership Program and invite them to submit an application.  We start accepting applications as of the first of the year.  If you would like to meet with myself or a board member to discuss the program in more detail feel free to call Toni at the Chamber (262) 251-2430.

Have you ever done a really tough job, to the best of your ability, with all the best of intentions, taking all the factors you have into consideration and still- it was not enough?  After working so hard, other people have opinions of how you did, many negative.  This is often what happens to people who choose to live a life of service to others.  This could happen to the politician, the doctor, the nurse, the policeman, the volunteer baseball coach, the teacher, the co worker, the parent, the child, the neighbor, and often to those whose head is above the crowd.  So why do it?  Why even bother? 

The answer is Passion.

We all have a passion that drives us to be and do more then we think possible.  Great leaders are the people who can find that passion in themselves and bring it out in other people.  When you have that passion your desire to serve is greater than the negative.  You believe to the core that you must pursue your passion regardless of what others may say.

In the October Session of Leadership Menomonee Falls we will be focusing on Education.  We will have the opportunity to talk to both district and class room leaders.  We will discuss some of the successes as well as the challenges they face navigating education today.  Everyone you meet has an opinion of the school system.  It does not matter what community you live in.  The opinions are many.  However, during the 5 years I have been facilitator of Leadership Menomonee Falls the one thing that has rang true, in every session on education, is the level of passion of the people committed to our children.  It is a great example of people willing to follow their passion and serve others regardless of what others might say.

What are you that passionate about?