U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce

This seminar prepares you for a central task and test of leadership: growing other leaders. Developing new, imaginative approaches to managing succession is critical to successful human capital management, which is drawing increasing Presidential and congressional focus, and is included in the General Accounting Office’s high-risk list of Federal activities. The impending retirement of a large component of senior executives over the next few years is intensifying this interest.

Leaders Growing Leaders is designed to help you understand the leadership gap and to develop innovative approaches to improve the situation in your organization. It draws on years of research that clearly demonstrate that leaders are primarily grown, formally and informally, through challenging job-based experiences and interaction with senior leaders.

• Understand the difference between leaders and managers
• Learn the best ways to help leaders develop on the job
• Discover and demonstrate the essential skills for developing leaders
• Learn how to frame your life and work experiences as stories to help others learn leadership lessons
• Build and implement an effective succession management plan and initiate other leadership development programs for your organization
• Gain experience practicing informal roles as exemplar, mentor, coach, and teacher to help grow the next generation of leaders

SES members, GS-15s, and their equivalents

• Conflict Management
• Human Capital Management
• Leveraging Diversity
• Team Building
• Vision