Creating the Next Generation of Leaders:

Professional Development Approaches

Karen Flippo

Sheila Fesko

Institute for Community Inclusion

Agenda • Approaches to professional

development – Mentoring– Performance evaluations/professional

development – Training

• Innovative approaches• Just in time options• Leadership certificate program

Mentoring

• Does your organization create a culture that encourages learning and mentorship?

• Does your organization have a formal process for career development?

Performance Evaluation

Performance Evaluation

• Consistently done?• Addressing goals and development

opportunities?• Discussing demonstration

leadership? – Not just review of job functions

SMART Goals

Training approaches

• Interactive Learning experiences

• Simulation

Simulation Person Centered Planning

Just in time learning

CES video

Leadership Certificate Program

• Executive and Mid-Level Leadership Development

Leadership Succession

• Developing a new generation of leadership for disability services

• Massachusetts based• Adapted from established

leadership and management certificate programs

Leadership and Management

• Tailored for IDD executive and mid level leadership

• Designed with input from MA provider community

Course Topics

• Overview of disability services (history, values, systems, origins, laws, DD competency)

• Mission based decision making • Legal and ethical issues •  Project management

Course Topics

• Self understanding: self assessment

• Develop clarity of personal values, purpose and vision

• Develop and execute a personal strategy

   

Course Topics

• Change Management  • Working with Others:

Interpersonal and Relationship Skills

• Understand and appreciate diversity of perspective and style

    

Course Topics

• Team development• Communication Skills• Risk Management• Collaborative Relationships• Coaching and Motivating• Customer Relations

Course Topics

• Setting and monitoring performance standards

• Working with others: Strategic business acumen

• Systems thinking approaches

Course Topics

• General business acumen: strategic planning, finance, marketing, program development

• Setting, communicating, and monitoring milestones and objectives

Course Topics

• Prioritizing and allocating resources

Course Topics

• Creating and Actualizing Vision • Managing your own transition

and transformation, managing an external change initiative, (coaching others through transition)