It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
- Lewis H. Lapham

E pluribus unum.
(Out of many, one.)

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
- Margaret Wheatly
Leadership and the New Science

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
- Karen Kaiser Clark

The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.
- Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers
Improving Leadership

Leading Edge Youth Leadership Weekend
March 26th - 28th, 2010
Camp Shaw-Waw-Nas-See, Manteno, IL

This event provides an opportunity for youth in Illinois and Wisconsin to explore what it means to be a leader. Many of us believe that the leader is the captain of the team, the President of the organization, the person who planned the activity and brought everyone together. This often makes for few leaders and in reality misses out on the fact that every person has the potential that through whatever role they play they can lead their community to success.

Through a series of workshops and team challenge experiences each participant in this weekend has the opportunity to get to know your inner leader and what you need to do to train and grow this important part of yourself.