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Senior Executive Services Leadership Horizons: The Constitution and Contemporary Public Sector Leadership

Overview

FEI’s Leadership Horizons series is specifically designed for experienced members of the Senior Executive Service, focusing on pressing issues of the day while drawing on the lessons of the past.  Like the citizens we serve, Leadership Horizons is founded on a strong and invigorating sense of the public service and core Constitutional values.  Within that key framework you will join with FEI faculty, distinguished guest speakers, and peers from across Government to expand your leadership horizon by exploring the latest thinking in the field of leadership and learning new ways of leading effectively in the challenging public environment that defines the SES.

 

Each day, senior Federal leaders struggle with leadership challenges with potentially profound implications for their organizations and American society.  Their leadership occurs  within a context perhaps more demanding than any other:  our Constitutional system and democratic society.  As leadership researcher and writer Jim Collins noted, “Social sector leaders are not less decisive than business leaders as a general rule; they only appear that way to those who fail to grasp the complex governance and diffuse power structures common to social sectors.”

 

This seminar in the new Horizons series, The Constitution and Contemporary Public Sector Leadership will provide you with an unrivaled opportunity to step back from day-to-day demands, to explore and better understand the unique, demanding, and ultimately rewarding milieu in which you operate and seek to excel.  Splitting time between FEI’s Charlottesville campus and Montpelier, the home of President James Madison, father of the Constitution, seminar participants will heighten their understanding of the relationship between historical antecedents to their contemporary leadership, and discover new perspectives and approaches to apply in their organizations.

How Will You Benefit
  • Reconnect with the Constitution, concepts of public service and “trusteeship”, and work with key values and issues underlying public sector leadership.
  • Strengthen key leadership skills required for success in leading employees and navigating the career/political interface.
  • Deepen your cross-agency SES network and your “corporate” sense of the Federal sector.
  • Enhance your personal “constitution” with new strategies for wellness and resilience.
Who Should Attend

The Leadership Horizons Series is designed for Federal leaders with a minimum of two years experience at the SES level, senior military officers, and state/local/international counterparts.  Because of FEI's emphasis on interageny networks and building a vibrant learning community, participants will be selected to represent the fullest range of the Federal sector possible.

Schedule
  • Mar 9 - 13, ‘09 @ Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, VA Cancelled
    $3,795.00
     
  • Jun 29 - Jul 1, ‘09 @ Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, VA Register
    $3,495.00
     Starts 9 a.m. on 1st day and ends 4:30 p.m. on last day
  • Aug 26 - 28, ‘09 @ Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, VA Register
    $3,495.00
     Starts 9 a.m. on 1st day and ends 4:30 p.m. on last day
Competencies Emphasized
  • Building Coalitions
  • Leading Change
  • Leading People
  • Political Savvy
Length

1 week.

Locations
  • Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, VA
College Credits

N/A

 
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