{"id":25790,"date":"2013-12-11T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=25790"},"modified":"2017-08-02T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T17:09:07","slug":"nextgen-program-graduates-24-future-municipal-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/12\/nextgen-program-graduates-24-future-municipal-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"NextGen program graduates 24 future municipal leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-four local municipal employees recently graduated from the Goodman School of Business’s NextGen Municipal Leadership Program.<\/p>\n

The employees were from nine Niagara municipalities, including St. Catharines, Fort Erie, Pelham and Lincoln. They learned about many topics, including managing in a union environment, leading in a political situation, and employee engagement and team-building strategies for the 21st century.<\/p>\n

“This is a good example of how the Goodman School of Business is committed to offering programs and seminars geared towards the Niagara Region,” said Don Cyr, Goodman Dean.<\/p>\n

NextGen is a staff development and training program for municipal employees in a supervisory role or who aspire to fill a management role in Niagara. It was developed by the Goodman School’s Centre for Innovation, Management and Enterprise Education (CIMEE) <\/a>in conjunction with Niagara’s 12 municipalities, and came to be as a result of concerns that local chief administrative officers (CAOs) and human resources specialists had about the impact of retirements and mobility issues on municipal staff.<\/p>\n

The program is a series of seminars led by leadership and human resources experts.<\/p>\n

Thorold CAO Frank Fabiano sat on the program’s founding advisory committee. He credited the vision of Niagara’s CAOs for making NextGen happen.<\/p>\n

“This will mushroom into something huge in Niagara: getting people to understand each other,” he said about the program’s potential.<\/p>\n

NextGen will run again in spring 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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