Program Highlights

The Federal Executive Institute's Center for Executive Leadership serves senior government leaders, especially alumni of the Leadership for a Democratic Society program, and their agencies. CEL provides custom and consulting services at FEI and at agency sites. It also offers a series of open enrollment programs at FEI's Charlottesville, Virginia campus.

Executive Coaching is a key focus of our Custom and Consulting services for FY 2003. As a federal executives today, you face unprecedented challenges in leading your organization effectively in an environment of escalating change and complexity. Executive Coaching is a valuable tool, increasingly relied on by private sector organizations, to support you and your team and enhance your current and future effectiveness in their organizations.

Our executive coaches work in partnership with you or your senior team for a sustained period of time. They help identify your developmental goals and pursue a plan for achieving those goals. They support teams by helping members focus on group processes and functions as well as individual issues. Executive Coaching is voluntary, confidential, and tailored to the expectations and schedules of individual executives and teams.

FEI offers a choice of executive coaches who have the range of experience, personal qualities, and organizational knowledge to help you meet your developmental goals. You can learn how to apply these techniques yourself in our Coaching Skills for Federal Executives program.

Four of our new open enrollment offerings for FY 2003 focus on improving your effectiveness by helping you understand the linkages and boundaries defining your organizations. These programs help you make the most of your ability to work together in the new configurations demanded by the people you serve. Leading in the Virtual Work Environment and Collaborating Across Organizational Boundaries focus on situations in which team members work in different locations or for different organizations. Territorial Games: Understanding and Ending Turf Wars at Work and The Power of Knowledge Management: Sharing Information to Improve Performance help you look beyond traditional boundaries and approaches to information and find ways to improve the ways you do business.

CEL programs are designed to help you by developing a continuous learning relationship that will improve your organization's success and enhance your personal leadership skills. Contact Donna Sweeney, our Registrar (434/980-6200, cel@opm.gov).

	360 Degree Leadership
	Building High-Performance Organizations for the 21st Century
	Building a Great Place for People to Work
	Coaching Skills for Federal Executives
	Collaborating Across Organizational Boundaries
	Executive Coaching
	Executive Communication Skills:Leading the Process of Change
	Innovation in Government Lab
	Leaders Growing Leaders
	Leaders as Catalysts for Organizational Success
	Leadership Competencies: Enhancing Group Commitment
	Leading Organizational Change
	Leading in Turbulent Times
	Leading in a Virtual Work Environment
	Power Thinking for Leaders
	Strategic Management for Executives
	Territorial Games: Understanding and Ending Turf Wars at Work
	The Aspen Institute Executive Seminar
	The Aspen Institute Leading Change in Government Seminar
	The Power of Knowledge Management: Sharing Information to Improve Performance

A Message from the
Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management

The events of September 11th have dramatically reshaped our world. They have refocused priorities and created a new sense of urgency for insuring we are getting results from government. We are fighting a war against terrorism against a global terrorist network. The front is not only overseas but right here at home. Everything we do as public servants has taken on added meaning and added significance.

Meeting these challenges means reshaping government. The President has provided aggressive leadership to transform the federal government. He has put forth his vision of government reform, guided by three principles: Government should be citizen-centered (customer-focused), results-oriented, and market-based. The programs and seminars offered at the Federal Executive Institute and the Management Development Centers support this vision. Our Core Leadership Curriculum and the other programs depicted in The Leadership Journey are specifically designed around the competencies research has shown to be most needed to effectively serve the President, the Presidency, and the American people.

I am very pleased to announce OPM is also offering an integrated curriculum to support the President's Management Agenda and its five cross-cutting governmentwide initiatives:

• Strategic Management of Human Capital
  
• Competitive Sourcing
  
• Improved Financial Performance
  
• Expanded Electronic Government (e-Government)
  
• Budget and Performance Integration

I believe it is no accident that strategic management of human capital is first on the management agenda. There is really only one way to transform government and that is through people. You, the current and potential leaders of your agency, are the people responsible for the day to day actions needed to create a citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-based government. Without you, we will not be able to deliver the results the President has promised the American people, the results we need to keep our nation safe and prosperous in the 21st Century. Meeting these objectives will require teamwork in every agency and department. To be successful, career executives and political appointees must be working together toward this common goal. One team, one fight, one victory!

The seminars and programs described in this FY 2003 catalog are designed to provide you with the best practices and essential tools to help your agency get the results necessary to achieve our vision and "get to green" on the five initiatives in the President's Management Agenda.

President Bush said in introducing his management agenda, "good beginnings are not the measure of success. What matters in the end is completion. Performance. Results."

I encourage you to come to the Federal Executive Institute and the Management Development Centers. By taking back what you learn to your agencies and applying it to producing real results for the American people we will fulfill our promise, "Great Leaders for Great Government".

Kay Coles James
Director, United States Office of Personnel Management