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Leadership And Workshop Development Committee

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Both seasoned and new Nupes often find themselves asking the question, “Why did I join Kappa?”, for days, months or even decades after their initiation. While most go on to answer that question in their head, their responses are seldom shared with the policy makers of our fraternity. How else, one must wonder, will the experiences of future Kappamen benefit from the lessons learned by the present day membership? For this reason, there is the need for some mechanism to capture these fleeting ideas and deliver a curriculum that seeks to correct missed opportunities of training for leadership.

In 2015, the Eastern Province of Kappa Alpha Psi sought to provide such a vessel to its membership through the Leadership and Workshop …show more content…

Rodger Wilson Leadership Conference (CRWLC) that meets its original purpose for ALL members. In its most fundamental description, the conference is supposed to prepare and incite in our brothers varying aspects of achievement, whether that is in the fraternity, job, or community. The 1957 approach to sharing and instilling knowledge was most effective in the traditional lecture style workshop where a subject matter expert taught his brothers the history of the fraternity or the different goals and themes of Leadership development. While this traditional approach to education and development worked for decades to prepare some of the most amazing young men in America and throughout the world for leadership, modernity offers an opportunity to drastically enhance the outcomes of our flagship leadership development event.

This year, with the support of the Province Polemarch and Board of Directors, the committee hoped to provide a leadership conference grounded with in a lens of collaboration and innovation. This approach would provide the type of training that would engage members in outcome driven innovation; we called this enhanced conference CRWLCX. Much like how the TEDX events that have revolutionized the way people exchange information that supports leadership development, The 2015 CRWLCX used modern instructional and technological techniques to train our members for leadership in a changing world. The CRWLCx program

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