Leaving a legacy of excellence.(Facing Local Community Leaders: A University Experience Leadership Training seminar)

Nation's Cities Weekly, May, 2007 by Gerard, Catherine

This is the third in a series of articles on the topics and issues that will be presented at the Finding Solutions to Issues Facing Local Community Leaders: A University Experience Leadership Training Institute Seminar scheduled for June 7-9 at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in Syracuse, N. Y.

Leaving a strong legacy requires leaders to focus on ensuring that their performance standards are continued once they have left office. Previously mentoring was seen as a role that only top leaders would take on to ensure that the "best and the brightest" would move quickly through the organizational hierarchy thereby occupying key roles among the elite while granting credit and praise to the one offering the mentoring.

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