09/26/2024

Strengthen Your Component Leadership Training

Here’s how one organization revamped its leadership training

When Brannan Meyers, CAE, started at the Council for Exceptional Children as director of component relations (divisions, units, chapters), CEC was considering whether it should scrap its chapter leadership training program.

"People weren't seeing the value in the program," Meyers said. "But Chad Rummel had just started as our executive director. He recognized the importance of leadership training and wanted to determine what needed to change to increase engagement."

Soon after Meyers came on board, she and her team got to work revisioning the training with a renewed focus on boosting member value. The goal was to provide members with meaningful, in-person content and experiences that they wouldn’t be able to get through virtual training or via email.

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