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PSESD launches Leadership Academy
This year, PSESD launched the Leadership Academy to support leadership development of our internal staff through a systemic and structured approach. The academy provided members, who included all staff that work in a supervisory role plus “aspiring leaders,” with the opportunity to explore broad topics and important issues in leadership, and enhance their leadership skills in a collaborative environment.
Several large group trainings were held throughout the year. Smaller "cohort groups" of staff with similar levels of responsibility were formed to further explore leadership topics. The cohort groups worked to enhance their knowledge and skills in creating and implementing a vision, leading change, building relationships and teams, and effectively supervising projects and people. Facilitated by Cabinet members, the cohorts sought to explore and resolve real-life situations in participants’ day-to-day leadership experience and offered mentoring and coaching from experienced leaders. The cohort of aspiring leaders, who were selected for the group through an application process, worked on defining their leadership philosophy, style, and skills with an emphasis on collaboration.
The Academy will continue to explore leadership topics next year to prepare our staff for larger leadership roles within the agency and region.
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