Capacity Building

Lead with Your Talents Spring 2023

Application Deadline: May 2, 2023. 
Cost: $45.

Course Description:

As we navigate our professional lives, we soon realize that there are certain tasks that feel like a really “good fit.”  These tasks come easily to us – we are good at these tasks and we enjoy doing them as well.  As we take notice of these tasks more and more, the process provides an invitation for us to be present, observe ourselves, make conscious choices and lead with our talents.

Lead with Your Talents© is a unique leadership development program targeting emerging leaders in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg nonprofit arts and culture community.  This program, designed and facilitated by Angelina Corbet, Founder of The Mobius Company, and Bill Southerland of Anchors Consulting makes use of the Highlands Ability Battery.  The program provides opportunities for participants to enhance their leadership style by increasing self-awareness and understanding of their ideal work environment, personal style, decision-making and problem-solving processes, communication and learning styles.

Participants will:

• Complete the Highlands Ability Battery. The Battery is administered online and takes about 2 ½ hours to complete.  However, it does not have to be completed in one sitting.  It is comprised of 19 timed tasks, called work samples.  Each work sample is designed to measure a distinct ability.
• Receive an individualized Highlands Leader Report. After completion of the Highlands Ability Battery, participants will have access to 40+ pages of individualized reports.  Participants will print a copy of their Leadership report and bring it with them to the group feedback session and the one additional session.
• Attend and participate in a group feedback session where the various abilities measured by the Highlands Ability Battery will be defined and the implication of the results for the participant will be explained.  Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about their particular scores on the various work samples.
• Attend and participate in one collective learning session designed to increase self-awareness and understanding of their leadership style through the use of the Highlands Ability Battery.  Participants will gain an understanding of how the Battery can be used as a tool to look at themselves by engaging in several reflective and hands-on exercises designed to provide opportunity for them to experience their Personal Style, Driving Abilities, and Specialized Abilities as well as the Four Dimensions of Work Environment, Problem-Solving, Communication and Learning Styles.

About the Facilitators:

Angelina Corbet, Founder of The Mobius Company serves as facilitator, teacher, storyteller and scribe in service to individuals, partners and groups who want to live intentional lives. Angelina earned an MS in Business Policy from Columbia University as well as an MS and BS in Education. She is a Hurley/Donson Certified Enneagram Teacher© and a Hurley/Donson Advanced Enneagram Teacher©. Angelina has worked with ASC on a number of programs in the past and designed the Lead with Your Talents© Program at the request of the organization.

Bill Southerland, an affiliate of the Highlands Company and a certified feedback provider and group leader, founded Anchors Consulting in 1995 to focus on assisting individuals and corporate clients in the areas of personal and professional development, leadership development and succession planning.  He has worked in both the not-for-profit and the for-profit arenas to develop high performing individuals which translate into high performing teams. Bill attended UNC-CH and John F. Kennedy College and holds a BA in Sociology.

Participant Criteria:

Lead with Your Talents© has been designed and is being offered for emerging leaders in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg nonprofit arts and culture community. The program is limited to 24 participants and will be filled on a first come-first served basis.  Participants should:

• Be employed by a Mecklenburg County based nonprofit arts and culture organization, and
• Be 35 years of age or younger OR
• Have worked in the field for 5 years or less.

Additionally, participants must have the support of their supervisor for attendance at each of the two required program sessions. 

Time Commitment & Program Timeline:

Lead with Intention© is an 8.5-hour program that includes: (1) 2.5-hour individually led online assessment, one (1) 3-hour group feedback session and one (1) 3-hour collective learning sessions.  Participants must have the support of their supervisor for attendance at each of the two required program sessions.

Program Fees:

ASC is underwriting the majority of program costs as a capacity-building service for cultural organizations. Retail value for this program, as designed, would be approximately $1,220 per participant.

The training is offered to you for $45 per participant. If the cost to participate is a barrier to participation, please contact Adam Santalla Pierce at adam.santalla@artsandsicence.org.

The program is limited to 24 participants and will be filled on a first come-first served basis.