I flew out Friday evening to get to Miami in time to make the early start Saturday morning of our second Leadership group meeting. The weekend meeting was scheduled in advance of ITE’s Technical Conference. Glen Tecker continued to lead the weekend activities. We continued with self-assessments or our leadership styles. Four competencies of leadership: management of attention, meaning, trust and self were discussed in depth. We then talked about four Portraits of Influential Leadership: Catalytic, Servant, Visionary, and Expert. The discussion then moved to conflict resolution with activities including role playing in which we practiced resolving conflicts in the workplace. Our final discussion topic was on Facilitation and working with groups to gain consensus.
Our groups also spent time working together on our selected topics. My group continued our discussion of the transportation engineer’s role in accommodating all users in our transportation system. Our topic was developed into a focus on Complete Streets and ITE’s role in developing and promoting the concept. This work led to a presentation during a session at the Technical conference. The presentations were as opportunity to update ITE on our work and to seek input on our topics.
On Sunday the candidates for ITE Vice President presented their campaign pitches to the Leadership group and held a question and answer session with us over lunch. The ITE Technical Conference started up Sunday evening and went through Wednesday. I was able to attend several technical sessions and committee meetings.
The Leadership program has also included webinars over the last several months on working with elected officials, communicating technical topics to non-technical audiences, and professional etiquette.
