Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
OPM-0001
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
2 weeks (75 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate 3 Leadership or Management
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to enable managers who have recently been promoted to second-line supervision and experienced first-line supervisors to update their management skills and knowledge.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Describe strength theory and compare and contrast their own strengths with those of others
  • Articulate the power of engaged employees and the connection to strengths
  • Analyze behaviors of leaders effectively embracing diversity
  • Apply key principles for recruiting and retaining employees based on their generation
  • Differentiate between roles of followers and leaders
  • Recognize their individual strengths and their application to their own workplace 'fit'
  • Understand and manage resistance to change
  • Resolve conflict at the lowest possible level
  • Demonstrate strategies for leading those in generations other than their own
  • Understand personal styles of followership
  • Explain the checks and balances that each branch of government has on other branches

General Topics:

  • The thinking leader
  • Understanding change
  • Understanding strengths
  • Managing strengths
  • Conflict management: surfing the swamp
  • Leveraging diversity
  • Generational diversity
  • The courageous follower
  • Constitutional values and the Federal manager
  • Experiential application of seminar lessons
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Case Studies
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Case Studies
  • Presentations
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials