Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
OPM-0080
Organization:
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
2 weeks (89.5 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate 3 Leadership or Management
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to offer students a multi-faceted overview of organizational systems and best practices, and a useful framework for leading organizations into the future. Experienced mid-level managers can assess and improve their organizations' overall effectiveness by learning how to help guide the organization during times of unprecedented change, challenge, and uncertainty. Participants learn that effective organizational leadership entails both a thorough understanding of the organization, and an understanding of the knowledge, skills, and abilities that they bring to that leadership role. Through presentations, small-group work, and practice participants learn how to engage workers and foster innovative thinking and action.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Apply enhanced leadership ability to evaluate their organization comprehensively and multi-dimensionally
  • Use productive negotiation techniques to defuse wasteful, unproductive conflict
  • Practice management flexibility within their organization in order to view opportunities and events from multiple perspectives
  • Demonstrate new approaches to managing that can lead to greater organizational efficiency
  • Practice collaborative management of work team cultures
  • Create and construct a powerful vision for the organization and set strategies for moving towards realization

General Topics:

  • An overview of management theories and exploring personal theories
  • Overview of reframing organizations through four frames
  • Understanding the OPM leadership 360 assessment
  • Structural frame
  • Managing organizational performance
  • The political frame: government context for leadership and organizational savvy
  • The symbolic frame
  • The human resource frame
  • Managing organizational conflict
  • Negotiation
  • Vision
  • Finding true north
  • Management consulting team presentations
  • Passion and dreams
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