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Strategic Leadership
About the Course
The Strategic Leadership: Building Performance-Based Organizations and Developing a Performance-Based Culture course, conducted by the Office of Personnel Management's Management Development Center, provides the public sector executive and manager with a roadmap to build organizational systems that are dynamic, flexible, and outcome focused. In addition, they assess their current culture, understand the leader's role in the change process, and develop skills to lead their organization to high performance. The program strengthens the employee's competencies in the areas of vision, strategic thinking, financial management, continual learning, external awareness, entrepreneurship, influencing/negotiating, and accountability.
The training requires participants to be away from their position for 2 weeks.
Participant Objectives
- Link organizational core competencies to outcomes and results defined in the strategic plan.
- Define high performance for your agency, department or division using a model that will drive you toward alignment throughout your organization.
- Link individual competencies and performance with organizational needs.
- Explore performance based diagnostic models that will allow you to assess current performance.
- Know what type of team structure to use, where and when.
- Learn tools to create a learning organization that will design and redesign itself based on changing needs.
- Access cultural readiness for change.
- Learn effective ways to communicate your vision.
- Develop skills to create buy-in to the change process, overcome barriers, and decrease resistance.
- Identify territorial games most common in your organization and develop skills to decrease them.
- Develop skills to create an environment where innovation drives change.
- Develop an action plan to increase performance and/or implement change in your organization.
Eligibility
GS 14-15 to SES, and O6 managers
Timeframe
TBD (Arlington, VA) Application Deadline:
Application Procedures
To apply:
- Coordinate with your Training Officer or ESO to submit an Electronic Training Request (ETR) using Direct Access. Course code: 501374.
- Write a statement that describes: (a) Your
current leadership responsibilities, and
(b) a recent work experience that involved extensive collaboration.- E-mail the statement as an attachment to CG133TrainingCourses@uscg.mil.
- Include the course title and convening date within the subject line of the e-mail.
- Include your supervisor in the cc line of the e-mail.
Costs are paid by Coast Guard Headquarters (AFC 56 "C" school account).
Selection Procedures
Selected individuals will be notified by record message traffic of their selection. Alternates will be selected and will attend the program in the event a primary candidate cannot attend.
More Information
See OPM's Web site at http://www.leadership.opm.gov/Programs/Management-and-Supervisory-Skills/STL/Index.aspx.
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