“The Professional Development Academy is having a profound impact on the business communication skills and leadership capabilities of those participating – must for anyone looking to maximize their potential and effectiveness as a leader in their organization.”
Dave Kotch, CIO, FMC
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PPA & RFxPremier High Performance Leadership Academy
The High Performance Leadership Academy includes innovative, completely online programs created to equip frontline professionals with practical leadership skills to deliver results for their organizations and communities.
The Academy is built around interactivity and community, while retaining the convenience of self-paced learning. The programs are guided by expert moderators to help keep participants on track, and a world-class faculty of prominent public, private, and academic sector leadership deliver engaging and thought-provoking sessions.
A Leadership Development
Program designed to:
Strengthen your leadership skills.
Strengthen your results.
A mentorship based program with content provided by industry leading executives. This program provides best practices in leadership, organizational development and change management, negotiation and collaboration, effective business communication, and delivering value within high performance management.
Course 1: Leadership Mindset & Positive Engagement
This course provides insights from members of the program’s National Leadership Board on the ways leaders shift their mindset from being excellent individual contributors to becoming highly effective leaders. The course also focuses on increasing empowerment and engagement to achieve individual, team and enterprise success. The second half of this course demonstrates how leaders enable “positively deviant” performance and engender positive culture and communication.
Course 2: Leading Effective Change
The emphasis of this course is to prepare participants to engage in change initiated by others and to drive effective change as an active change agent. This course illustrates three facets of organizational change, including planning, executing and sustaining successful change. A balance of theoretical and pragmatic insights allows participants to understand the strategic, financial or market-based reasons for change and drive toward breakthrough results.
Course 3: Communication and Collaboration
Participants learn and practice the skills needed to improve the quality of interpersonal communication in a variety of contexts. Participants will learn how to effectively speak the language of business and convey information across diverse stakeholder groups, as well as break down silos between business divisions to drive better decision making. Each participant will understand effective communication as it relates to leading others, managing conflict, providing and receiving feedback, and negotiating with the Mutual Gains Approach.
COURSE 1
Module 1: Your Leadership Mindset
Module 2: Your Potential as a Positive Leader
Module 3: Positive Leadership and Your Team: Empowerment & Engagement
Module 4: Leadership Rules and Your Oath
COURSE 2
Module 1: The Process of Change: Planning
Module 2: The Process of Change: Executing
Module 3: The Process of Change: Sustaining
COURSE 3
Module 1: Speaking the Language of Business
Module 2: Mutual Gains Approach
Module 3: It’s All About People
Graduation
What to Expect
Unlike other distance learning programs that emphasize solo work, the GovExec Leadership Academy is built around interactivity and community. It’s intentionally flexible to accommodate busy work schedules with self-paced learning on a virtual platform accessible from anywhere.
Each course is broken into weekly modules that consist of independent activities, a 1 hour breakout group discussion, and a 30 minute live webinar event facilitated by a Ph.D. leadership coach. All webinars are recorded, so don’t worry if you miss one.
Testimonials
"I personally related with many of the lessons and 13 Rules of Leadership from General Powell. He is a no nonsense individual who applied what he teaches in the real world. Some of the business leaders who are with big corporations were so insightful and when they shared their experiences and what they had learned, it was just so powerful. I definitely could envision how fortunate some individuals are to have them as their leaders and mentors. I was fortunate to share this class with other leaders in my City and it has created a camaraderie that has already resulted in more effective and impactful cross departmental cooperation."
"This program was helpful in several ways. In some instances, it affirmed aspects of my leadership style and in other ways it provided me with new ideas and resources. The combination of both improved my confidence as a leader and has prepared me for the next phase of my career. This program has given me new perspectives and tools to help me build my capacity as a leader, while also reinforcing my sense of those elements of leadership that are the best components of that toolbox."
Meet The Academy Faculty
Learn from the most accomplished leaders. The curriculum content is proven know-how based on the experiences of our world-class faculty of prominent public, private and academic sector leaders, the most accomplished executives, coaches, and thought leaders. The result is relevant, relatable, and immediately actionable material that serves as a leadership field guide.