HOBY Texas Gulf Coast
2024 Leadership Seminar
Dates: June 7 - June 9, 2024
Format: In Person
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Our purpose is to teach you how to think, not what to think.
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Leadership seminars are designed to prepare our country’s high school sophomores to become effective, ethical leaders in their homes, schools, workplaces and communities.
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Each year, selected high school students from across the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Korea, Taiwan, Israel, Iraq, Turkey and other nations around the world attend local seminars.
POSITIVE OUTCOMES
Improve Critical Thinking Skills
By presenting multiple viewpoints on important issues, HOBY encourages the HOBY ambassador to evaluate all issues from a critical perspective.
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Enhanced Leadership Skills
HOBY’s question-and-answer format, small group discussions, hands-on service learning experiences, and assumption of leadership roles will enable HOBY ambassadors to better understand leadership and begin to identify their own particular leadership strengths. Sessions with specific leadership themes, keynote speakers, and leadership simulation games and exercises provide introspective opportunities for our ambassadors to think about themselves as leaders.
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Better Understanding of the Democratic Process
Discussions on democracy, free enterprise, volunteerism, and community service are facilitated during the HOBY seminar.
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Developing Goal-Setting Skills
All aspects of the HOBY leadership seminar are geared towards encouraging each ambassador to see leadership, community involvement and volunteerism as life long goals worth pursuing. During the seminar, we provide them the tools they need create actionable steps to help ensure they know how to actually plan out and achieve a goal successfully. At the conclusion of the HOBY seminar, ambassadors are encouraged to identify personal goals and make a commitment to achieve at least one within the six months that follow.
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Realizing the Importance of Leadership
As part of our commitment to the President's Summit For America’s Future, HOBY ambassadors are challenged to complete a minimum of 100 hours of volunteer service annually. HOBY’s Leadership For Service program encourages young adults to give back through community service.
FUN ACTIVITIES
Although most of the weekend will consist of seminar sessions, there will also be an opportunity to socialize and meet new people.
SEMINAR THEMES
The future poses numerous circumstances for which strong, ethical leadership will be essential. Therefore, during the seminar, HOBY requires that all U.S. leadership seminars present the following five specific themes:
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Democratic System and Entrepreneurship​
A basic understanding of profit, competition, and the democratic process that provides citizens with incentives — economic and otherwise.
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Education
Education is indispensable to the quality of our society. It is basic to our country’s infrastructure and to the ability of many communities to attract business and industry. Education will dictate how well we shall compete globally in the future.
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Leadership for Service
Volunteerism has always been a part of the HOBY experience. Service to others is essential in becoming an effective leader. It promotes community involvement and provides a better understanding of the communities around us.
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Media/Communications
Modern media undeniably impacts our daily lives, be it at home, work, or in the economy. Recent advances in the way people communicate represent nothing less than a technological revolution.
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Future of our Society
This topic covers questions and answers that will impact the lives of HOBY ambassadors, as well as those of family, business communities, and the country. This session focuses on issues which could be major contributors to the future success of our society.
LIFE WITH HOBY SESSION
You will learn about HOBY alumni clubs and chapters. There are various opportunities for volunteering in the community as well as continuing education opportunities available to HOBY participants.
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HOBY is proudly endorsed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
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For more information on receiving leadership seminar registration materials, please contact us.