KU’s Public Management Center is pleased to announce an
Emerging Leaders Academy
The KU Public Management Center’s new Emerging Leaders Academy (ELA) provides public agencies with a powerful new succession planning tool. Using self-discovery tools and interactive learning approaches, ELA develops individuals new to public service to put them on the fast-track for successful public sector careers. ELA learners gain knowledge and skills in leadership, governmental processes, ethics, and career planning. To achieve their professional goals as public servants, learners evaluate the positions they are preparing to move into and develop strategies for accomplishing them.
Who Will Benefit from Attending
Public servants who with fewer than three years experience who want to:
- Prepare themselves to compete for and accept promotional opportunities
- Better understand how their workstyles, personality styles, and values systems affect their careers in public service
- Participate in a support network with other new public servants
- Deepen their knowledge of how the public sector operates
- Learn in an application-oriented environment that is balanced with concepts
- Meet and learn from experienced practitioners
- Broaden their scope of understanding of critical elements of public service, including budgets and strategic planning
- Identify fresh, new ideas they can implement to improve their workplaces
- Develop skills in rapidly assimilating into and participating on a team
- Professionalize themselves through improved communications, business etiquette, and the like
Benefits for Learners
Developed by practitioners for practitioners, ELA is more than simply 12 eight-hour classes. Each class is led by experienced public servants who share their experiences with the learners. Grounded in real-world activities, each class contains valuable takeaways focused on practical use. They read texts that have influenced some of the most successful public figures in Kansas, and discuss those writings with those figures in a series of sections called "Great Texts, Great Teachers."
- Improved ability to work well with others
- Increased awareness of their own personal styles and values
- Increased responsibilities and decision-making opportunities
- Greater motivation to strive for and accomplish more at work
- Cross-application of their learning to other aspects of their lives
- Improved understanding of the "big picture" of public sector work
- Greater willingness to take risks—and accept the rewards that come with them
Benefits for Agencies
- Preparing the "next generation" of public servants for their careers
- Increased engagement of promising talent
- Employees with greater understanding of the breadth and scope of public service
- Individuals with increased skills and knowledge of how public service occurs
- ELA is an effective succession preparation tool
Key Content
- Understanding yourself
- Teamwork in organizations
- Constitutional government
- Budgeting and strategic planning
- Legislative and regulatory processes
- Decision-making and conflict management
- Written and oral communications
- Ethics
Visit this link to see curriculum topics
Applications are due August 8, 2008.
Early applicants will have the best chance of being assigned to their preferred location.
Enrollment Cost
The cost for enrolling in the Emerging Leaders Academy is $1000, which covers 12 8-hour sessions and related materials.
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