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标题：Legacy Leadership Institutes: Strengthening Leadership for Community Involvement in 50+ Adults
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作者：Tracey T. Manning ; Laura Wilson ; Karen Harlow-Rosentraub 等
期刊名称：Journal of Leadership Education
电子版ISSN：1552-9045
出版年度：2006
卷号：5
期号：2
出版社：Association of Leadership Educators
摘要：Baby-boomers, the sizeable group of knowledgeable, competent, and motivated adults born between 1946 and 1964, view the increased flexibility in lifestyle of their later years as an opportunity to make a further contribution to society (Wilson & Simson, 2006). How can this potential be realized. Legacy Leadership Institutes, created by the University of Maryland's Center on Aging, are designed in collaboration with community agencies through a process of needs assessment and volunteer position development. They provide intense classroom instruction in specific role competencies and non-positional leadership development, followed by supervised field placements in those agencies. The outcome is higher volunteer competence and leadership role self-efficacy, increased civic engagement, challenging volunteer roles, and ultimate enhancement of community social capital