XCOA-927 - Public Sector Leadership in Challenging Times

Course Description

It is a challenging time to be a leader in the public sector. Public confidence and employee morale ebb and flow while public servants are expected to deliver more with fewer resources and staff.

This one-day workshop recognizes the predicament of public servants, and offers a day to regroup and re-center around an empowering mindset, model, and set of tools to guide leaders in some of the most challenging years of our democracy.

Designed For

Mid-level and senior managers in leadership positions or preparing for a leadership position.

Course Objectives

During this course, students will:

• Explore the essential roles of public service in democratic society
• Learn and experiment with several powerful mental models (e.g. Cura Personalis) and tools to sharpen leadership acumen, group intelligence, resilience and sustainability
• Imagine, envision, and strengthen relationships based on dignity, reciprocity, mutual respect, and mutual accountability
• Recognize from personal experience the ways leaders awaken the minds and interests of others and how those same capacities can be silenced or muted

Notes

Faculty: Lloyd Raines

Lloyd Raines is a seasoned executive Master Certified Coach (ICF), consultant, and educator with over 25 years experience in leadership development. He is principal of Integral Focus, a coaching and consulting practice dedicated to enhancing leadership performance from a holistic, whole systems framework. Lloyd coaches leaders at the United Nations, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations, helping them to strengthen leadership core competencies in service to wise stewardship of vital resources.

Lloyd previously directed a non-profit organization (working with juvenile offenders) in Washington, DC, directed and taught a justice-focused honors program at American University, was a founding faculty mentor in the Federal Judicial Center Leadership Program, and a founding faculty member of Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching Certificate Program. He also taught business and professional ethics at the University of Maryland University College. He brings to coaching an applied awareness of adult development, systemic and cultural forces, the power of conversations, current research and global best practices, and the praxis of leadership.

Lloyd is a member of the International Coach Federation, International Consortium of Coaching in Organizations, and The Mankind Project. He is certified in Leadership Agility’s stage development assessment tools, Center for Creative Leadership’s suite of leadership assessment tools (including Benchmarks and 360 By Design), The Leadership Circle, Cultural Transformation Tools, DISC, Firo-B, PeopleScan (Spiral Dynamics), The Art of Convening, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and Syntax Communication Modeling (NLP). He has presented workshops at international ICF and ICCO conferences on leadership, stewardship, and sustainability.

Lloyd earned an MA in Justice from American University and a BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Furloughed Employees Professional Development Program

This course is part of the Furloughed Employees Professional Development Program at Georgetown University. Please visit our website for more information.