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<br />Inside <br />WCA <br />update .. ....... p. 3 <br />Convention <br />wrap-up .:....... p.2/3 <br />Leadership- training <br />makes. a difference <br />World leaders make decisions <br />affecting millions of people. <br />Company leaders make <br />exorbitant amounts of money. <br />Media leaders influence <br />public opinion. <br />Everyone agrees that strong <br />leadership is a necessary <br />component of a successful <br />organization. But what makes <br />a leader? And how do you <br />teach a person to become one? <br />Those questions and others <br />were the .focus of the recent <br />two-ye,ar.leadership training <br />course offered by the Minne- <br />sota Association of Soil and <br />Water Conservation Districts <br />(MASWCD). Why would the <br />MASWCD encourage 28 . <br />course participants to sacrifice <br />time at work and home and <br />spend hours wrangling with <br />thorny issues that often had no <br />real possible resolution--all at <br />a cost of $1,600 per person? <br />"We looked. at it as an invest- <br />ment in the organization," said <br />LeAnn-Buck, assistant direc- <br />for for the MASWCD. "If you <br />never focus resources on the , <br />stronger districts, then your <br />leadership stagnates...we <br />wanted to focus on our emerg- <br />leadership continued on p. 4 <br />Congratulations to Mabel/ <br />Canton igh School on its <br />winning nvirothon team! <br />Look for a special Envirothon issue of <br />the Mentor in August! <br /> <br />