Executive Education

The School of Public Policy, through the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and the Office of Executive Programs, enjoys a proven record of success in the development and management of executive education, and therefore, has the necessary resources in place to work with your agency or organization to develop and deliver leadership and intelligence-related programs of the highest quality and greatest value. The School will work with you to tailor existing executive development programs or degree and certificate options or will develop, in collaboration, additional courses to effectively address the needs of your agency or organization. Finally, all programs can be offered on-site at client facilities or on the College Park campus.

As mentioned, the School has partnered with several federal agencies within the IC to offer executive education in the following areas of specialization:

I. Leadership Development
• The Executive Leadership Program for the IC
• The Leadership Certificate for the Intelligence Community
• Leadership Workshops

II. Intelligence and Security Policy Studies
• Seminar Series in Intelligence Analysis

I. Leadership Development
Currently, the School offers the following three, non-academic credit, program options:

1) The Executive Leadership Program for the Intelligence Community (ELP)
The ELP is designed to enhance the performance of IC senior officials in four leadership competencies described by the Office of Personnel Management. These competencies include: Technical Leadership, Strategic and Tactical Awareness and Planning, Oversight and Risk Management, and Effective Change Management. The ELP allows senior managers to meet academics and practitioners who have been recognized for making significant contributions to the art of management and who are sensitive to the constraints the IC and its constituency face.

Program Content
This four-day program utilizes leading experts in the field and individuals who have had a mix of business and public sector experience. In addition, session leaders possess a technical background that allows for successful interaction and response to the highly technical needs of program participants.

Competencies are addressed through both traditional academic presentations scheduled for the morning of each session day and are further reinforced by more individualized skill development sessions and interactive, small group exercises scheduled for the afternoon of each session day. The curriculum is designed to allow participants time to examine their own leadership, management and negotiation styles. Skill sessions go beyond an abstract discussion of the four competencies and create situations in which participants gain invaluable insights into the effects of their personal interactions.

Program sessions focus on the following four competencies:
Technical Leadership includes those skills necessary for managers to lead technical staffs. Skill sets include, but are not limited to, writing, communicating, persuasion and motivating people to perform.

Strategic and Tactical Awareness and Planning involves knowing where one wants to go and making strategic shifts when needed. Skill sets include strategic thinking, visioning, creativity/innovation, collaborating, and maintaining flexibility to adjust to changing circumstances.

Oversight and Risk Management involves having frameworks for analyzing and undertaking risks to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Skill sets include resources management, financial management, monitoring and evaluation, financial management, and accountability.

Effective Change Management empowers individuals to make timely shifts within personal and organizational contexts in response to changing external forces. Skill sets includes elements of continual learning, external awareness, flexibility, resilience, integrity/honesty, partnering and political savvy.

2) The Leadership Certificate for the Intelligence Community
This non-academic credit Certificate Program is designed to provide the IC with a cost effective and integrated training for technical professional and managerial staff.

A Certificate is earned when students complete a series of ten, two-day leadership workshops. Focusing on developing the competencies of Technical Leadership, Strategic and Tactical Awareness and Planning, Oversight and Risk Management, and Effective Change Management, the ten workshops include:

• Leadership and the Power of Story
• The Dynamics of Groups: A Leadership Challenge
• Impact of Organizational Culture on Change
• Results-Oriented Leadership and Performance Accountability
• Leadership Communications
• Leading for Creative Results
• The Power of Dialogue
• The Psychology of Decision-Making
• Making Strategic Choices, the Art of Smart Negotiation
• Building Emotional Intelligence

3) Leadership Workshops
Several of the two-day seminars listed above have been formatted for delivery via distance learning technologies. Currently, the following three, two-day seminars can be offered via video-teleconference:

• The Power of Dialogue
• The Psychology of Decision-Making
• Building Emotional Intelligence

II. Intelligence and Security Policy Studies
The School currently offers the following Seminar Series as a non-credit option for training in intelligence and security policy. The School would be happy to work with agencies to modify the exisiting curricula of the Series to more approproately meet the needs of participants. For additional programming in intelligence and security policy, please reference the certificate and degree pages which offer options for graduate credit courses.

Seminar Series in Intelligence Analysis
The Seminar Series in Intelligence Analysis aims to expand the skills of intelligence analysts in the areas of written and oral briefing and analytic and strategic thinking. In addition, seminars will offer a multi-disciplinary perspective of the environment in which intelligence analysts and law enforcement personnel operate. The Series will seek to provide participants with a deeper understanding of the challenges facing the intelligence community at-large, and knowledge of the global influences shaping homeland security issues.

The Seminar Series is comprised of seven, two-day seminars. Each seminar is led by one of the Unniversity's nationally renowned, resident practitioner-scholars who is preeminent in the field of intelligence studies and security policy. The seminars will also include federal, state, and local law enforcement leaders and practitioners where appropriate, to enrich seminar curricula by providing a "front-lines" perspective of the challenges of delivering reliable and efficient intelligence information and products.

The Series is comprised of the following seven, two-day seminars:

• Understanding the Intelligence Community: Keys to Successful Information Sharing, Analytic Support, and Effective Response
• Written and Oral Briefing Skills for Analysts
• Analytic Tradecraft: The Do's and Don'ts
• Collaborative Skills for Improving Knowledge Sharing for Analysis
• Gaining a Global Perspective: Foreign Policy in the Middle East
• Understanding Terrorism
• Critical and Strategic Thinking for Analysts

Please contact Tom Kennedy, Director of the School's Office of Executive Programs and Director of the Center for Leadership and Organizational Excellence at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, at 301-405-6752 for additional information on executive educational opportunities in leadership and intelligence-related scholarship.