Events

Advanced Leadership Corps

ALC is a six-day residential program built to enable you to become an extraordinary and inspiring leader in your community, region, and state. Applications are due by May 31.

Basic Economic Development

This introductory course is designed for economic development professionals employed by public, nonprofit, and private organizations and individuals new to the field.

Essentials for Social Services Governing Boards Webinar

This five-hour program is spread over two days and will serve as an orientation for social services governing boards. Topics to be covered include: Where social services governing boards fit into the human services framework in North Carolina; partners at the state level; legal powers and duties of the social services governing board; liabilities of board members; the business of working as a board; how your board can best support your agency and community; and the professional associations, state agencies, and networks that work with county agencies.

Top 10 Primer on Employment Law for Local Elected Officials

As an elected official, you do not need to be experts in these areas but you need to be sufficiently aware of the applicable laws to know how to ask the right questions of the right people at the right time. In this class, you will gain a basic understanding of the employment laws that apply to local governments.

NCACC 114th Annual Conference

County leaders have been put to the test during the pandemic and events of the past year. As if carried by a river reaching flood crest, our counties and communities have been altered by forces out of our control. County leaders are navigating a current that remains challenging but is turning toward a new horizon – one that offers a fresh perspective and provides great opportunity. This August, county leaders reunite off the banks of the mighty Cape Fear River, and off the starboard quarter of the iconic Battleship North Carolina in New Hanover County. This 114^th offering of the Annual Conference presents the opportunity to reconnect, recharge, and recommission to chart our future course on a voyage that can lift all boats.

Leading the Way to Board Excellence

Leading the Way to Board Excellence is designed to help you better understand yourself as a leader and provide you with tools to work more effectively with others towards a common goal. This unique four-part course is open to county commissioners, municipal elected officials, school board members and tribal council elected officials. The course begins Aug. 19-20 and continues on Sept. 23-24, Oct. 21-22, and Nov. 18-19.

Strategic Planning: Linking Strategies to Results

In this class you will learn the principles and processes involved in strategic planning. You will learn how to use your local government budget as a planning tool to execute your vision over a multi-year period, and you will explore the leadership behaviors that are important elements of success.

Leading the Way to Board Excellence

Leading the Way to Board Excellence is designed to help you better understand yourself as a leader and provide you with tools to work more effectively with others towards a common goal. This unique four-part course is open to county commissioners, municipal elected officials, school board members and tribal council elected officials. The course begins Aug. 19-20 and continues on Sept. 23-24, Oct. 21-22, and Nov. 18-19.

NCACC Risk Management Board of Trustees Annual Retreat and Meeting

Rumor Control and Controversy: Effective Communications in Troubled Times

This session will cover creative ways to get the facts out there (including but not limited to the media), identifying key audiences and effectively messaging to them, ensuring that you control the narrative, and finding the best tone for a constructive discourse in the midst of a controversy and over the long term.