Leadership Competencies
These sessions concentrate on receiving and using leadership competency feedback. Effective leaders understand their strengths and weaknesses and their impact on others. To achieve personal and professional goals, a leader must be able to capitalize on his or her strengths and know how to ameliorate his or her weaknesses. Most career derailment and stagnation is a result of interpersonal, not technical shortcomings. Equipped with this leadership competency feedback, participants consider their personal missions and goals, and integrate those into their careers and the missions and goals of their agencies or organizations.
Performance Leadership - David Harrison
In these sessions participants learn skills required to run high-performance organizations that require an integrated approach to human relations. In order to achieve this, the sessions examine process improvement, creating a climate for motivation and employee recognition, performance measurement, and related issues of leadership, mission, vision, and strategy. The purpose is to give practice with analytic frameworks that can help sort out complicated problems where policy, politics and management intersect. Performance leadership skills also help participants consider how to develop an agency strategy under their leadership.
Values and Integrity in Public Service - Bill Grace
This session gives managers a chance to learn about current issues regarding values-based leadership and to consider their own role in promoting strong ethics in public and nonprofit service. Participants explore the basis of leading with values and ask themselves how they can be persuasive and influential to others while at the same time maintaining personal integrity. This is a session based on inner reflection. Pre-session questions orientate participants before attending. During class, participants formulate a plan and practice for implementing their own values as well as those of their agency or organization in their daily lives.
Executive Leadership - Dorothy Bullitt
How do you define leadership? Contemplate who has impressed you as an especially effective or ineffective leader and why. What particular skills and behaviors did he or she demonstrate? This individual should be someone you observed closely: a colleague, a teacher, a relative, a team mate, a coach, etc. Executive Leadership will help students cultivate the practical skills required to lead within various operational contexts. Managerial strategies for addressing problems across all public service capacities will be examined through case studies, general readings, and in-class exercises
Other 2010 Executive Management Program Session Topics
For more information about how to apply to the Executive Management Program, contact us at cascade@u.washington.edu or 206.685.0523.