From KReedT@aol.com Tue Nov 30 09:29:55 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:14:02 EST
From: KReedT@aol.com
To: r3-excom1999@ieee.org
Subject: Report: Leadership Development Committee


Report to Region 3 Executive Committee by the Leadership Development Committee

The Leadership Development Committee conducted a Section Officers
workshop during SoutheastCon '99 in Lexington, KY in April with good
attendance and results and participated in the North Carolina expanded
workshop for Area 2 (NC Council) Section Officers at Asheville in
November.  A third workshop was conducted for Area 5 (Tennessee
Council) Section Officers at Nashville, TN just prior to the Executive
Committee Caucus in December.

A presentation of the Region 3 training plan and techniques was the
subject of one of the workshops at the Sections' Congress '99 in
Minneapolis, MN in October.  At the Sections' Congress the Chair also
attended workshops about training in other Regions and gathered ideas
to improve the training program in Region 3.

Chip Dawson, Central North Carolina Section, has volunteered to
develop web pages representing the Region 3 training program that will
be available through the IEEE entity web hosting site.  This
development is just beginning but, at completion, the material will be
available to all Region volunteers as a reference or as a self study
asset as well as a vehicle for presenting the material in person to
groups of Section Officers.

Now that most Region 3 Sections have converted to the calendar year
for their fiscal year, it no longer appears desirable to present the
Region 3 training program at SoutheastCon because that is too late in
the Section Officers' terms.  In the future we will concentrate on
conducting workshops in the individual Areas just prior to or just
after the Section fiscal year begins.  The NC and TN workshops
mentioned above fit this time plan.  Another has been requested for
the Florida Council early next year.

To facilitate the new time plan for workshop presentations, we desire
to have a training coordinator in every Area/Council who can present
the training workshops.  Members of the LDC committee currently
include representatives of Area 1 (Virginia Council), Area 2
(NC Council), Area 3 (Georgia), Area 4 (Florida Council), Area 7
(SC Council).  The Chairs of Area 5 (TN Council), Area 6 (Alabama,
Mississippi), Area 8 (Kentucky) and Area 9 (Jamaica) are requested to
nominate training coordinators for their Areas.

Committee members are:
Area 1, Dan Jackson, d.jackson@ieee.org
Area 2, Chip Dawson, chip_dawson@gilbarco.com
Area 3, Vernon Powers, v.powers@ieee.org
Area 4, Jim Beall, j.beall@ieee.org
Area 7, Reed Thompson, Chair, r.thompson@ieee.org