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Item Bridging Brown County: Captivating Social Capital as a Means to Community Change(University of Minnesota. Extension, 2011) Rasmussen, Catherine; Armstrong, Jessica; Chazdon, ScottAs our communities strive to support community change efforts for survival and vitality, the importance of social capital has become evident in leadership development. Many researchers and practitioners realize that tapping into the inherent power of relationships and social networks is crucial. This paper provides an overview of the design and evaluation of Bridging Brown County, a countywide community leadership development program that was explicitly designed to build social capital as well as human capital. By integrating social and human capital constructs into the program design, impacts have been measured in domains of other community capitals. The results of the impact study provide insight into developing and measuring the success of community leadership programs.Item Do U‐Lead Cohort Leadership Programs Improve Emotional Intelligence? Measuring Change in EQi Scores of MARL Program Participants(St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service, 2010) Liepold, Michael J.; Rasmussen, Catherine; Boyce, Kim; Trudeau‐Poskas, DeniseItem Economic Value of the McLeod for Tomorrow Leadership Program, 2017(2019) Tuck, Brigid; Chazdon, Scott; Bohn, Hannah; Rasmussen, CatherineItem Impacts of a Bridging Cohort Leadership Program: Network Brown County(St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service, 2011-10) Rasmussen, Catherine; Armstrong, Jessica; Chazdon, ScottNetwork Brown County is a leadership education program that brings together groups of 15-20 Brown County residents of diverse backgrounds for nine one-day sessions. Participants meet new people, discover new places in the county, broaden their knowledge of community resources, and increase understanding of issues facing the county. To date, six annual cohorts have completed the program. This study sought to determine participant-identified outcome success and impact of Network Brown County using the Community Capitals Framework, and to measure impacts using participants, as well as community stakeholders, as data sources.Item Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development Using the Community Capitals Framework(St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service, 2009-10) Rasmussen, Catherine; Armstrong, Jessica; Chazdon, ScottThis poster presents the methodology and findings from a recent impact study of the Network Brown County program. Network Brown County is a leadership education program that was initiated by Extension in 2002. The program brings together 15-20 Brown County residents from a variety of communities and backgrounds for nine one-day sessions. Participants gain personal and community leadership skills, build networks and broaden their awareness of issues facing the county. The study used a semi-structured interview protocol to measure the impact of the program participants on the human, social, political, cultural, economic, natural and built environment capacity of the county. Findings from program alumni were supplemented with interviews with community stakeholders who had not been participants in the program.Item Outside the Comfort Zone: Strategies for Developing Emotionally Intelligent Leaders(University of Minnesota. Extension, 2013) Liepold, Michael J.; Rasmussen, Catherine; Boyce, Kim; Trudeau-Poskas, DeniseA recent study of the Minnesota Agriculture and Rural Leadership (MARL) program set out to determine the relationship between andragogical program design and increased levels of emotional intelligence (EI). Members of two cohorts in the MARL leadership development program received different levels of focused effort, peer coaching, individual action plans, disorienting dilemmas, self-reflection, and training in the area of emotional intelligence. We examined four years of data, including participants’ results on the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) before and after undergoing leadership development training, as well as their individual reflections on the EI components of their training. The intention is that this research will encourage practices that seek to increase emotional intelligence in leaders.