Effective Leadership In Action

Fall Series 3-2025

Are you ready to elevate your leadership skills?
Are you an employer looking to support your staff in their professional development?

This six-session leadership foundation class will feature relevant leadership topics in today’s workplace to help you maximize your
potential and advance your team to success. Develop your communication, collaboration and leadership
skills by learning from the experts and local leaders through interactive sessions and discussions.
Network and engage with other professionals. Successful completers will receive a certificate of completion
from Wor-Wic Community College.

Cost: $150* total for the 6-session series (includes lunch).

Registration is reserved only when payment is made.

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Session 1 & 2: Leaders Are Made - Not Born

Facilitated by: Jeffrey M. Fried, MHA, LFACHE, ACC; Executive Coach Certified by the International Coaching Federation.

Date & Time: Thursday, October 16 | 11 am – 1:30 pm (Note: Class meets ½ hour earlier on the first session of the series) & Tuesday, October 21; | 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. Location: Wor-Wic Community College, Room TBD; The Tuesday session will be held off-campus, TBD. Lunch will be provided. Explore leadership myths (what to avoid), key leadership traits and effective leadership strategies. Incorporating well-accepted theories and leadership practices, including Simon Sinek’s Purpose-Driven Leadership and The Power of Why, learn how to lead with a clear sense of purpose to inspire and align teams.  

Session 3 & 4: Feeding the Future: Strategy, Listening, and Leadership That Scales

Facilitated by: Kevin McAdams, CEO of Perdue Farms, Inc

Date & Time: Thursday, October 30 & Wednesday, November 5 | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Location: Wor-Wic Community College, Room TBD; The Wednesday session will be held off-campus, TBD. Lunch will be provided. Kevin McAdams, CEO of Perdue Farms, will share a grounded, real-world approach to leadership in times of transformation. With a focus on building trust, creating clarity, and aligning teams around a shared direction, he’ll explore what it takes to lead an organization where legacy meets innovation.  

Sessions 5 & 6: Behavioral Hiring Practices

Facilitated by: Kevin Hughes of Chesapeake Learning & Development

Date & Time: Thursday, November 13 & Tuesday, November 18 | 11:30 am-1:30 pm Location: Wor-Wic Community College, Room TBD; The Tuesday session will be held off-campus, TBD. Lunch will be provided. Behavioral interviewing is the world’s most widely used interviewing approach today. Find out why interviews are a wild card in the hiring process and realize that candidates are interviewing your organization, too. Nearly every business uses some form of interview process, but few get them right and often there is a lack of training. Explore how Behavioral Interviewing ensures evaluations that are fair, accurate and can provide great candidate experiences. There’s nothing worse than finding the right candidate, only to have them turn you down because of a poor interview experience or worse, hiring the wrong candidate for the job.

The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore offers a scholarship for non-profit organizations in Somerset,
Wicomico and Worcester counties. For Non-profit scholarships, apply at Nonprofit Scholarship Application | CFES