Overview
Move beyond management and learn how to lead. This foundational course will help you build self-awareness, leadership presence, and the ability to read your organizational environment as you explore the skills needed to understand and influence others. Members of the Senior Executive Service, inspirational public figures, and people-management experts will share success stories to help you develop a deeper understanding of what great leaders can achieve, encouraging you to explore your own true leadership potential.
This course is required for the Certificate in Public Leadership.
Featured Sessions Include:
- Leadership Presence - An opportunity to give voice to the values that inform your personal leadership style, learning from the highly interactive approach of the Ariel Group
- Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration - Author and psychologist Keith Sawyer shares new ideas on team dynamics
- Public Leadership for the 21st Century - Former U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker challenges today’s high potential government executives
Program Benefits
- Enhanced ability to win followers and lead action
- Practical tools to help you succeed at work
- Greater understanding of your personal leadership style and how to play to your strengths
Competencies
- Team building
- Problem-solving
- Partnering
- Political savvy
- Public service motivation
Praise for this Program
"If you aspire to become an effective leader in the constantly changing workplace, this course will provide you with the competencies of strategic management, effective methods of communicative persuasion and pressure, and a better understanding of who you are. Also, you will learn how to transform yourself to be a successful leader.”
-- Norwood Johnson, Social Security Administration, 2007
"The Leadership Lab is an excellent blend of substance and stylistic approaches to the daily activities in the workplace as well as to the major traumatic changes facing our workforce today."
-- John J. Donahue, National Park Service, 2007