TenStone Leadership Connection Challenge

The TenStone Leadership Connection Challenge will help you grow your leadership presence while strengthening your knowledge and connections to your local community.

What is the TenStone Leadership Challenge?

The TenStone Leadership Connection Challenge (TLCC) is for those who want to serve their communities through knowledge, connection and support. 

If you are:

• A business leader looking to connect with other leaders.
• New to your community and want to learn about your new surroundings.
• Looking to learn more about other jobs/professions to help you build your network.
• A lifelong learner wanting to grow through learning and building relationships.
  
  The TenStone Leadership Connection Challenge is for you.

What are the Benefits?

• Individual
  • Connect and engage with others who represent a cross-section of business, non-profit, education, health care, government, and as well as other sectors of the community.
  • Learn about resources and people strengthening the community
  • Gain more Self-Awareness and self-confidence while building out a strong network of people.
  • Grow a concentric network of contacts, colleagues, and stakeholders authentically, learning about community members’ needs and interests with no underlying sales or engagement agenda.
    
• Organizational
  • Develop employees with increased leadership, organizational and problem-solving skills
  • Provides organizations new access to a network of community leaders and resources
  • Strengthens the organization’s connection and participation with other organizations in the community.
    
• Community
  • Develops a stronger appreciation for the strengths and challenges that people and organizations are encountering
  • Enables and encourages collaborative partnership initiatives among different sectors.
  • Growth in community involvement by the participants

What People are saying:

The Leadership Connection Challenge was an amazing experience of growth, camaraderie, and community. I expected to challenge myself in reaching out to other leaders in my community and forming new connections. What I didn’t expect at the outset was how much I would learn about myself. In the course of our weekly discussions and outreach, I gained insight into my own values, experience, barriers, and beliefs, and how to manifest or shift those to build a better community.Under the guidance of Layne Mielke, all of us in the program learned from one another in meaningful ways. I appreciated that there was a clear and thoughtful structure, combined with fluid discussions that kept me thinking long after our sessions. Layne brings out the best in people and is an expert facilitator and leader. I highly recommend her unique program!

Laura Dayal, Business Owner

The TenStone Leadership Connection Challenge has had an enormous way I connect with other leaders in my community. It helped to push me outside my comfort zone and authenically connect with various people I was interested in meeting, and the practices I developed in the program have become a key part of how I navigate my professional and personal life.

Layne’s ability to cultivate a sense of connection and genuine goodness among people is incomparable. She was a partner to everyone throughout the program, sharing tools and resources, asking powerful questions and propelling us forward in the most humble of ways.

I went into the Leadership Challenge with the goal of learning and forging stronger connections with local leaders, and while I achieved that, I also found real transformation from exploring how I can impact my community basked on my unique gifts.”

Lauren Perdue, Business Owner

Become An Intentional Leader
A Connector to your Community

There is so much content out there helping leaders learn from reading or watching about others’ experiences. The TLCC is different. It accelerates your learning by challenging you to go out and try, practice, engage, and explore with leaders in your community, then reflect on what you learned from others and about yourself.

The TLCC propels you to take action and connect with your community. It helps you grow the leadership skills that will serve you personally and professionally. It holds you accountable for being a leader in your own life. The TenStone Leadership Connection Challenge helps our communities grow stronger and be better connected by challenging you to go and intentionally meet leaders who work in different sectors that help a community thrive.

When you join the TLCC you will be welcomed into a league of people building strong communities and wanting to increase their leadership skills. It is for people who do not want to watch life go by but would rather live the life they want and build the community they desire. This challenge is for those who want to experience different people, develop new connections and strengthen their community. What could happen if you could have more connections in your community?

Members have started creating stronger connections and communities in Alaska, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island. Will you be next? Will you take the challenge to strengthen your community?

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A 10-Week Challenge to help you learn about yourself and your community

Everyone participating in the 10-week TenStone Leadership Challenge will receive a free membership to the distinguished TenStone Leadership Community. You will intentionally develop a stronger understanding and connection with the people who are improving your community. You will grow in your leadership skills, your self-awareness, and, of course, your connections. Members will also receive an exclusive TenStone Leadership Connector Pin and, upon completion, a TenStone Leadership Certificate.

Will you accept the challenge?
Will you make a difference in your community and in your own life?

Why do this now? People have become more isolated and lonely; we have more thought silos and a deep desire to connect with people meaningfully. We need to build our community support system. This fast-paced 10-week challenge will allow us to learn, practice and improve our leadership skills and expand our ideas, all while building community connections. Weekly virtual Peer Mentor Group meetings will allow all the participants to build rapport and have the support of the other virtual TenStone Community Members.

*The TenStone Leadership Challenge is anchored in the prominent research of adult education based on the research of Malcolm Knowles’ concept of Andragogy as well as David Kolb’s Experiential Learning theory.

Are you ready to accept the challenge?

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