Abstract The Municipal Forestry Institute (MFI) is a continuing education course created by the Society of Municipal Arborists and designed to train leaders in the urban forestry field. Organizations sent almost 500 participants to this annual course during its first ten years of existence. This study documents the outcomes and impacts of employee attendance on participating organizations and examines if there were differences in outcomes based on years of professional work experience or gender. A mixed methods approach with a focus group, interviews and online survey was used to analyze what employees did with the knowledge gained at MFI and how it benefited the sending organization. Substantial advances in enhancing organizational leadership capacity, program innovation and expansion, and changes in organizational function were reported after employee attendance at MFI. The MFI program successfully impacts leadership skills of employees across all work experience ranges with minimal gender differences.

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员工参加市林业学院领导力课程的组织成果和影响

摘要 市林业学院（MFI）是市树艺师协会创办的一门继续教育课程，旨在培养城市林业领域的领导者。在这个年度课程存在的头十年里，组织派出了近 500 名参与者参加。本研究记录了员工出勤对参与组织的结果和影响，并根据多年的专业工作经验或性别检查结果是否存在差异。使用焦点小组、访谈和在线调查的混合方法来分析员工利用在 MFI 获得的知识做了什么以及它如何使派遣组织受益。在提高组织领导能力、项目创新和扩展方面取得重大进展，员工参加 MFI 后报告了组织功能的变化。MFI 计划成功地影响了所有工作经验范围内员工的领导技能，性别差异极小。