Chamber Leadership Program

What is Chamber Leadership?

 Hickman County Chamber of Commerce seeks to build a strong foundation for cultivating and growing inspired youth leaders. The Chamber Leadership program identifies young people each year who demonstrate leadership qualities and further develops their leadership potential. Our mission is to create experiences for students to see their capacity for influencing community change and develop a sense of community involvement and commitment to their community as productive citizens and current/future leaders.   

Program…

 Group Dynamics include:

 The Group must choose one of the seven problems to address.  Groups will be awarded topics on a first-come, first-served basis. The group must complete the group assignments,  the timeline, the outline, and the group project package.  The Project Package includes Presentation,  PowerPoint - Visual Media,  and Media Story. This includes 4 work days.

 Theme Days include

• Tourism & Cultural Heritage

• Community Resources

• Government, Law & Justice

• Business & Commerce

• Agriculture

• Graduation- Project Finale

Project Goals:

Goal 1:      Provide opportunity for high school students to learn and practice:

                        (1) personal and team leadership skills;

                        (2) personal perspective and life mapping skills (timelines, career goals, networking, lifelong education);

                        (3) interaction with community dynamics; and

                        (4) individual and community problem solving skills.

Goal 2:   Provide a real-world problem for the leadership class to tackle in such a manner as to benefit the individual for learning leadership and problem-solving skills, while providing the community the benefit of having local youth generate new ideas for solving local problems.

Goal 3:    Provide opportunity for Leadership Class to engage as a civic group in an ongoing process for a community vision program.