Public Sector Leadership Certificate Program

The PSLC is designed to increase understanding of your strengths and create professional development opportunities to build a successful culture, achieve organizational goals, and strengthen communities. This cohort style program provides a platform for peer-to-peer learning. The core curriculum enhances your leadership effectiveness through development of authentic and sustainable leadership, the ability to influence others, a public sector focused business acumen tool kit, and effective coaching and mentoring to develop others.

PRE-PROGRAM: Everything DiSC Work of Leaders.
This assessment will be sent prior to the program. It provides a picture of your current management and leadership strengths while providing insight to opportunity areas for growth and development.

Modules 1 & 2: Developing Your Personal Leadership Style
These modules will enable you to:

• Better understand the competencies necessary for leading within the public sector
• Connect with the mission centered aspect of public sector leadership
• Create a deeper relationship with your unique strengths through exploring the DiSC assessment profile
• Develop opportunities to achieve your vision, mission and goals for
• Explore the relationship and importance of ethics and ethical decision making within the public sector

With this understanding and insight, you will begin to develop your personal leadership plan and set objectives to make an immediate impact on your organization and the community.

Modules 3 & 4: Leading Others
These modules  develop skills and provide tools to lead others in your organization. The focus areas for these modules include:

• Understanding and utilizing emotional intelligence
• Influencing within and across organizations and departments
• Exploring the meaning and importance of resilience
• Performance management skills and tools
• Your role in recruiting, retaining, motivating, and recognizing people
• Holding yourself and others accountable
• Leading through coaching and mentoring

Modules 5 & 6: Public Sector Business Essentials
These modules will give you the essential business tools needed to effectively lead in a Public Sector organization. Including:

• Skills for proving excellent customer service
• The landscape of public sector finance
• The role of data in the public sector, and communicating for maximum impact

Module 7 & 8: The Path Forward; Change Leadership and Developing Your Sustainable Leadership Project Plan
In this session, you will explore change leadership skills and capture the skills, insights, and transformations made throughout the program. This facilitator led exercise enables you to build a project plan to make a change or innovation in your individual work, your department, or within the organization.

Digital Badge:
Xavier Leadership Center is proud to offer each participant a digital badge in Public Sector Leadership once you have met program completion criteria. Digital badges include a direct link to view program credentials and can be utilized by participants on social media and digital resumes.

Identified current or future leaders within an organization. Not fitting for new employees or those with less than 5 years’ work experience.

Program Journey:

• • Develop a deeper understanding of “who” you are, “how” you show up, and determine your true leadership persona
  • Understand ethical leadership and your own personal ethics and values
  • Become a more effective leader, capable of inspiring, engaging and empowering others to achieve organizational goals and objectives
  • Implement the essential business acumen to lead an organization day-today and with a vision into the future
  • Create an immediate impact within your organization