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Leadership

Leadership Potential Seminar

Developing Future Leaders

Overview

Are you transitioning into the supervisory/management pipeline? Are you a high achiever outside a traditional position of authority? This seminar will help you cultivate the skills you need to realize your leadership potential and assist your agency in its leadership succession planning.

Set in the context of peer-to-peer leadership, this dynamic seminar will help you find and define your own mandate for leadership. Through assessment, reflection, discussions, and demanding application, you will discover and practice the skills that foster effective and legitimate leadership: self-awareness, continual learning, building and sustaining relationships, and creative problem solving. You will acquire the tools necessary to outline and implement a strategic action plan that will enhance your potential for leadership and link personal strengths, talents, and objectives to the Government’s mission of service.

How Will You Benefit
  • Discover your mandate to lead
  • Develop increased awareness of self and others
  • Develop effective communication and feedback skills
  • Enhance your sense of personal authority and develop traits needed for long-term leadership growth
  • Learn to lead others without relying on traditional authority
  • Understand the President’s Management Agenda as an opportunity for individual leadership
  • Learn and practice strategic leadership skills: influencing, negotiating, goal setting, and problem solving
Who Should Attend

High-performing technical specialists, project managers, and professionals

Presidential Management Fellows

Schedule
  • Dec 1 - 12, ‘08 @ EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $5,000.00
    Starts 10:00 am on first day and 4:00 pm on last day
  • Jan 26 - Feb 6, ‘09 @ EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $5,000.00
    Starts 10:00 am on first day and 4:00 pm on last day
  • Mar 2 - 13, ‘09 @ EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $5,000.00
    Starts 10:00 am on first day and 4:00 pm on last day
  • Apr 20 - May 1, ‘09 @ EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $5,000.00
    Starts 10:00 am on first day and 4:00 pm on last day
  • May 4 - 14, ‘09 @ WMDC - Aurora, CO Register
    $5,000.00
    Starts 8:30 am on 1st day ends Noon on last day
  • Jun 1 - 12, ‘09 @ EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $5,000.00
    Starts 10:00 am on first day and 4:00 pm on last day
  • Jul 20 - 30, ‘09 @ WMDC - Aurora, CO Register
    $5,000.00
    Global Session open to International Students. Starts 8:30 am 1st day & ends at Noon last day
  • Aug 24 - Sep 3, ‘09 @ WMDC - Aurora, CO Register
    $5,000.00
    Starts @ 8:30 AM ends @ Noon on last day
Note
Tuition includes materials, meals and lodging
Competencies Emphasized
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Oral Communication
  • Public Service Motivation
  • Team Building
Length

2 weeks.

Locations
  • EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV,
  • WMDC - Aurora, CO,
College Credits

3 Hours/Graduate