HomeMy WebLinkAboutVIII-04 Pre-approval High Performance Leadership Class
City Council Memorandum
To: Mayor Fasbender & City Councilmembers
From: City Administrator Dan Wietecha
Date: December 3, 2021
Item: High Performance Leadership Academy
Recommendation:
Approve High Performance Leadership Class.
Background:
When we met on October 4, the City Council indicated its interest in supporting my professional
development as a leader.
I propose taking the ICMA High Performance Leadership Academy, an online program created
to equip local government professionals with leadership skills in organizational development and
change management, negotiation and collaboration, effective communication, and how to deliver
increased value from high performance management.
I’m particularly impressed with its reference to “the ways leaders shift their mindset from being
excellent individual contributors to becoming highly effective leaders” and its focus on
“effective communication as it relates to leading others.”
The next cohort begins in January and runs for 12 weeks, with daily commitments of 30-60
minutes. See the attached High Performance Leadership curriculum overview.
With a scholarship through ICMA, the cost for the course is $2K. This can be covered with the
existing 2021 budget for training “carried over” since the class occurs in 2022.
Attachments:
• High Performance Leadership (January 2022)
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January 2022
HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP
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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 4: Leading High Performance Teams
This closing course focuses on measures, metrics, and practices
used across the enterprise to achieve high performance. Participants
learn that business results – values and benefits – may differ from
one company to the next and even from department to department
within a single company, but the consistent variable is It’s All About
People.
COURSE 1: Jan. 10th – Feb. 4th
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
Break Week: Feb. 7th – Feb. 11th
COURSE 2: Feb. 14th – March 11th
Module 1: The Process of Change: Planning
Module 2: The Process of Change: Executing
Module 3: The Process of Change: Sustaining
Module 4: Leadership Rules and Your Oath
Break Week: March 14th – March 18th
COURSE 3: March 21st – April 8th
Module1: Speaking the Language of Business
Module 2: Positive Communications
Module 3: Mutual Gains Approach
COURSE 4: April 11th – April 15th
Module 1: It’s All About People
Graduation: April 15th
“Government workers need better training and
stronger cybersecurity policies to protect against
attacks. This leadership development program is that
training and prepares existing and emerging leaders to
better defend their most critical assets.”
—Marc Ott, Executive Director, ICMA
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