The United States Office of Personnel Management points out in its Classification and Qualification Guide that supervisors have a responsibility to not only be leaders, but to do so while exhibiting a myriad of adaptive leadership skills including: conflict management, continual learning, creativity and innovation, developing others, external awareness, human capital management, leveraging diversity, partnering, generating public service motivation, and teambuilding. This stands in stark contrast to the focus on technical expertise we so often see early in federal careers.

Participants in this program will be encouraged to explore themselves, adaptive thinking, how to create and communicate vision, and how they can engage with those they lead to create energized teams that exceed agency goals. They will also engage in experiential-based and self-directed learning activities as supported by their agency mission and work together in a cohort environment to build the inclusive skills needed to address the inevitable conflict that occurs in a fast-paced, diverse workplace.

Executive Coaching

The ESCI 360-degree evaluation tool is administered at the beginning of the Program to identify behaviors that contribute to emotionally and socially effective performance. The ESCI feedback report shows the coachee how others—manager(s), direct reports, peers, etc.—experience the coachee’s behavior in terms of the consistency with which the coachee demonstrates the emotional and social intelligence competencies.