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Educational Excellence

• attending the forums (Canadian, European, Latin American, US) at international conventions and
conferences;
• using the forum resources found on the DKG website;
• attending the DKG National Legislative Seminar in Washington, DC.

Leadership

Per the DKG Strategic Plan, one of the focus areas of EEC is to empower members to take leadership
roles. Often, members fail to see the leadership potential within them. All members should be encouraged
to step up as leaders at the chapter, state organization, and international levels. The DKG website offers a
vast resource of ideas including a Leadership Discovery Centre that can be utilized by leaders at all levels.
To support leadership development, chapters and state organizations have many options:
1. Include breakout sessions on leadership at state conventions.
2. Provide training biennially for incoming chapter officers (and allow each chapter to send one
member who is not an officer).
3. Encourage state organization officers to communicate regularly with their respective officers at the
chapter level.
4. Have officers at the chapter and state organization levels provide mentorship to their incoming
counterparts.
5. Use offerings related to state organization conventions:
• offer incentives for chapters to attend;
• use funds (from endowments, grants, etc.) that have been earmarked to pay registration fees;
• recognize first-time attendees by hosting a social time or meal just for them or by providing
prizes and raffles;
• open local homes to host a member or two to save on hotel fees;
• solicit business sponsors to help defray costs.
6. Hold monthly leadership-network Zoom meetings on specific topics of interest.
7. Have a member volunteer to share information at meetings on current articles, blogs, podcasts,
webinars, and books pertinent to leadership development.
8. Develop newsletters that recommend current articles, blogs, podcasts, webinars, and books
pertinent to leadership development.

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