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Adult Action-Oriented Learning Models
The Public Sector Consortium uses an adult action-oriented learning model in the design of our programs. The programs incorporate scenarios and examples that are relevant to public sector workplaces by including exercises that are comparable to those leaders would encounter in their work setting. The classroom experience provides the opportunity to practice and learn new behaviors. Participants experience the marriage of current management practices with a strong focus on the challenges and systems that are unique to public leadership. The programs are focused in part on the principles and disciplines of Organizational Learning but also include Facilitation Strategies for Leaders, Strategic Alignment, Performance Skills, and Negotiation Practices, among others.
Sustainable Leadership Practices
Given the leadership role of the United States in the world, our choices as public leaders often have an impact well beyond the American citizens that we serve. In this context we believe that public leaders must have the capacity to serve both their organizational missions as well as the larger mission we all share: sustaining resources (human, natural and economic) for future generations. Sustaining resources to serve the public good requires us to think differently about our role as leaders and to develop tools and competencies that support this new model.
The Public Sector Consortium is committed to reinventing the model of public sector leadership. We have identified several practices that we believe are essential to this new model and have incorporated them into our curriculum. We are currently focused on the need to provide leaders with advanced skills that will redefine high performance as both accomplishing their organizations’ missions and sustaining the resources necessary for future generations.
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COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
The Public Sector Consortium’s Community of Practice
The Public Sector Consortium encourages peer learning, where participants become their own best resource. To this end, the Public Sector Consortium extended the original Community of Practice which started in 1995 to a larger audience as an ongoing forum for public sector leaders to share their practical experiences and continue their learning after attending one of the formal learning programs.
The Community of Practice sponsors a monthly open forum (via conference call) for leaders in the public sector to focus on issues of public leadership. Participants share experience and knowledge as they introduce organizational learning disciplines and other new practices into their work place. Their fresh perspectives often yield valuable insight, advice and solutions to challenges that face public leaders everyday.
This community helps those who have participated in the formal programs to continue their learning, as they face the challenge of turning knowledge into practical day-to-day applications and improved performance.
We welcome new partners who wish to continuously develop themselves as public leaders and at the same time are willing to help others do the same.
For further information on the Public Sector Consortium’s Community of Practice, please feel free to contact:
Click here to download a listing of past Community of Practice Topics (PDF)
Click here to access Community of Practice Pre-Reading and Resources
Organizations Supported:
- Agency for International Development
- American Society for Training and Development
- Council for Excellence in Government
- Department of Education
- Department of State
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Fairfax, VA County Government
- Federal Training Officers Conference
- Food and Drug Administration
- Internal Revenue Service
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Association of Public Administration
- National Institute of Health
- National Partnership for Reinventing Government
- National Science Foundation
- National Security Agency
- President's Management Council
Awards, Recognition, and Publications
- National Academy for Public Administration, A Work Experience Second to None: Impelling the Best to Serve, Practice 11 - Becoming a Learning Organization at the Department of Education, Sept. 2001. (202) 347-3190
- Publication Grant, Price Waterhouse Cooper Endowment for the Business of Government, A Learning-Approach to Leading Change, Dec 2000
- Distinguished Service to the Federal HRD Community, Training Officer's Conference
- Hammer Award as part of the National Reinvention of Government effort