Emerging Leaders in Crisis (ELC)
Program Overview
Meta-Leadership for Emerging Leaders in Crisis provides the participant with the knowledge, skills, and tools to lead effectively in a crisis. Through lectures, group discussion, and team exercises participants will increase their understanding of how to strengthen their internal leadership capacities, inspire those around them to follow, enhance techniques to lead up, effectively engage with partners and key stakeholders, improve their crisis communication competencies, and drive their teams and organizations toward higher achievement. These new and improved skills will be tested in a dynamic group exercise at program conclusion to ensure they can be fully utilized when the learner returns to the workplace.
This curriculum will help participants to:
- Understand the fundamentals of Meta-Leadership and how to apply the dimensions
- Strengthen crisis communication skills by differentiating between non-crisis vs crisis situations in engaging all stakeholders
- Develop skills to assess, engage teams, create a plan of action, and measure success, in order to drive sustaining, high achievement in organizations
- Grow personal leadership style by learning how to cultivate relationships, resolve conflict, and develop others
- Gain practical application of skills taught by participation in dynamic learning sessions
- Utilizing mentoring as a tool to support lifelong learning
As a candidate for the ELC program and part of your application you will be required to individually choose a mentor. Your mentor should be someone in a SENIOR leadership position whether internal or external to your agency. Your mentor will be required to meet with you to discuss your leadership goals, work with you on setting up a system to measure your progress, provide guidance and share their own leadership lessons learned, meet with you regularly, and provide the program a brief at the end of the mentorship period. This is a mandatory component of the program so please prepare this information prior to starting your application.
Please make sure to have your financial sponsor information ready as you will be required to submit it as part of the application.
Who Should Attend?
Individuals in federal, state, and local government agencies, private and non-profit organizations charged with managing a team or group and include team leads, directors, mid-level managers, project/program managers, analysts. Ideally, these individuals are on a desired career track for a leadership role in crisis preparedness, response, recovery, mitigation, security and business continuity.
Specifically:
• U.S. government staff in their first 10 years of service: GS-12 to-GS-14, fellows, and other equivalent federal pay scales
• State and local government staff in their first 10 years of service who are being groomed for leadership positions within their organizations
• Private, non-profit, and international staff with at least 5 years of experience selected by their employer to participate
Program Content
DAY 1: UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF META-LEADERSHIP
Overview of the Meta-Leadership Model
Meta-Leadership in Action: Guest Speaker
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DAY 2: META-LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS
What’s different in a crisis?
Swarming
Crisis Communications
Power of Partnership
Class Exercise
Meta-Leadership in Action: Guest Speaker
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DAY 3: META-LEADERSHIP AND DRIVING A TRANSFORMATIVE PROCESS
Transformative Leadership Lifecycle
Meta-Leadership to Lead Transformation
Assessing, Engaging, Designing, Process Implementation, and Measuring Sustainable Achievement in an Organization
Class Exercise
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DAY 4: RELATIONSHIPS, RESOLVING CONFLICT, & DEVELOPING OTHERS
Influence versus Authority
Complex Problem Solving
Raising Leaders
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DAY 5: GROUP EXERCISE AND REPORT OUTS
Program Dates & Tuition
5 DAY PROGRAM I $8,500
DATES: In-person postponed until further notice, please visit our online programs page.
Application Information & Process
The program is a competitive selection process and limited to 60 seats. Please complete your application in full to be considered for the program. A panel will review your application and you will be notified within two weeks as to the status of your application.
As a candidate for the ELC program and part of your application you will be required to individually choose a mentor. Your mentor should be someone in a SENIOR leadership position whether internal or external to your agency. Your mentor will be required to meet with you to discuss your leadership goals, work with you on setting up a system to measure your progress, provide guidance and share their own leadership lessons learned, meet with you regularly, and provide the program a brief at the end of the mentorship period. This is a mandatory component of the program so please prepare this information prior to starting your application.
Please make sure to have your financial sponsor information ready as you will be required to submit it as part of the application.
NPLI Executive Education Program (EEP)
Program Overview
This executive leadership training program is designed to produce effective leadership across the public (federal, state, and local), private, and non-profit sectors. It includes instruction in a pragmatic, proven approach to leadership in high-stakes, high-pressure situations as well as interactive dialogues, case study discussions, and guest presentations by front line leaders from major events such as the H1N1 pandemic, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, super storm Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, and the Ebola outbreak.
Students of our residential Executive Education Program (EEP) are challenged to put the lessons they have learned during the program into practice through an action-learning project. They are required to develop their own project idea that encompasses a real world problem in need of a better solution. Collaborating in a team of 5-8 members, cross-sector and cross-agency, the team works together during the time between the opening and concluding program sessions to put forth a well-researched solution.
The program is comprised of a residential opening session and concluding session at Harvard and the action-learning project that is to be completed between the residential sessions; all are mandatory components of the program.
This curriculum will help participants to:
Be better prepared to cross geographic and organizational boundaries to deal with crises as well as day-to-day collaboration and problem-solving. They will be equipped to guide the design of comprehensive, multi-agency, multi-sector and multi-jurisdictional emergency response plans. Participants will become versed in the principles of meta-leadership in order to respond to significant adverse events whether natural or man-made.
The program consists of three parts:
- A week-long residential session in Cambridge, including a combination of case studies, faculty presentations, and interactive exercises.
- Implementation of a meta-leadership team project mentored by Harvard NPLI faculty.
- A two and one-half day concluding seminar at which results of the meta-leadership projects are presented in teams.
Certificate of Completion
In order to successfully complete this program and receive a certificate you must have:
- Attended and participated in both sessions; opening and concluding
- Participated in and completed a Meta-Leadership project with your team
- Presented a section of your project with your team at the concluding session
- Submitted your written two page personal report with approval
Program Objectives
• Recognize the hazards of decision-making under stress.
• Hone the personal skills and behaviors that drive effective leadership in the context of group dynamics and multiple stakeholder interests.
• Develop leadership acumen to mobilize greater capacity through connectivity across traditional public agency and private sector boundaries.
• Design strategies for communicating vital information to the public in a crisis.
• Explore how to mobilize and deploy large systems, using organizational design and systems management to enhance vertical and horizontal connectivity.
• Consider the moral and ethical dimensions of life and death decision-making.
• Review the science of surveillance, detection, and response.
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for senior policy makers and operational leaders in federal, state, and local governments, elected officials, non-profit organizations, and the private sector in fields of emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation roles as well as security, business continuity, and crisis management. These individuals must have strategic planning or operational leadership responsibility or be on a career track leading to such a position.
Specifically:
• U.S. government staff: GS-15 and above, and other equivalent federal pay scales
• State and local government staff in senior leadership positions within their organizations such as Chiefs, Superintendents, Directors, etc.
• Private, non-profit, and international staff with more than ten years of experience
Learned Knowledge and Skills
The leadership curriculum divides into three themes
1) Meta-leadership in preparedness and response
2) Inter- and intra-organizational problem solving and connectivity
3) Meta-leadership communication and conflict resolution
Each participant is individually mentored and evaluated, with instruction on how to improve leadership and problem-solving strategies and communication. The curriculum includes skill-building sessions, leadership self-awareness instruction, and interactive learning opportunities that build the capacity and competence of government officials identified for their growth potential for preparedness leadership. Participants will learn to lead and guide inter-organization connectivity in order to better coordinate “whole of community” operations. This is intensely important now, as organizations with distinctly different missions, cultures, and operational mandates quickly engage and coordinate activity to create a unity of effort in the face of new national imperatives. Instruction on communication will focus on the importance of building and maintaining credibility and stability in moments of crisis. The curriculum will profile the “new normal” meta-leader: a new breed of thinking and decisive action in a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and unpredictable. The NPLI has created a robust network of talented leaders, able to respond to the new and unprecedented challenges of large-scale terrorism, pandemic, natural disaster, cyber attack, or other significant threat.
Topics
• Meta-leadership, a holistic, three-dimensional framework and practice method developed at the NPLI
• Emotional intelligence and the neuroscience of leadership
• Complex, multi-stakeholder problem solving
• Ethical considerations in preparedness planning and response
• Decision-analysis and predictable surprises
• Change management
• Case studies and guest speaker presentations on major events such as the H1N1 pandemic, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, super storm Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, and the Ebola outbreak
Program Dates & Tuition
8 DAY PROGRAM l $10,300
DATES: In-person postponed until further notice, please visit our online programs page.
Tuition includes instruction, housing, curricular materials, and most meals for both the opening and concluding sessions. Payment is expected before the start of the program.
Application Information & Process
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Admission to this program is competitive and is based on professional achievement and organizational responsibility. There is no formal educational requirement, but fluency in written and spoken English is a necessity for the program.
Early application is encouraged. Qualified candidates are admitted on a rolling, space-available basis, and the program often fills to capacity. Because of the interactive nature of this program, the number of participants is limited. Applications received after the deadline will be placed on a waitlist and considered only if space remains in the class.
(( This paragraph should be moved to Who Should Attend if not already there)) The NPLI program is designed for senior policy makers and operational leaders in federal, sate, and local governments, elected officials, non-profit agencies, and the private sector that have emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation roles as well as those in homeland security roles and the intelligence community.
To be eligible for admission, the applicant must have strategic planning or operational leadership responsibility or be on a career track leading to such a position. Admission to the program will be made on a competitive basis and is based on professional achievement and organizational responsibility.
It is mandatory for applicants to be able to attend both the opening and concluding residential sessions.
APPLICATION PROCESS
The program is a competitive selection process and limited to 50 seats. Please complete your application in full to be considered for the program. A panel will review your application and you will be notified within two weeks via email as to the status of your application.
Read all about the impact our NPLI EEP students are having in leading positive change in today’s turbulent times through the team projects they taken on:
Team Lighthouse Gets Creative in Its Pursuit of Enhanced Collaboration with Elected Officials to Improve Emergency Preparedness Nationwide
Cohort XV Project Teams Tackle Tough Issues
Students Lead the Fight to Reduce Preventable Deaths from Opioid Overdose
Team “Airport Too-Point-Ohh!” spreads CALM across Airport Incident Management Systems
NPLI Master Symposium
Who should apply: This program is designed specifically for all NPLI Executive Education Program Alumni.
Tuition Fee: $2,250 (Note: travel and travel related costs not included in tuition fee.)
Target Audience: NPLI EEP Alumni (you must have attended and completed the NPLI Executive Education Program at Harvard University to be eligible to register.)
Program Dates: TBD
Location: Washington, D.C.
Program Learning Objectives:
- Increase your meta-leadership proficiency with new tools, recent lessons learned, and emerging best practices;
- Be better equipped to cope with the need for leadership and organizational adaptation and transformation;
- Improve your ability to lead and develop leaders in a multi-generational workforce;
- Hone your understanding of emerging threats and how to mitigate and respond to them.
Curriculum includes: Brain Science, Organizational Transformation, Principles of Swarm Leadership, Updates on Meta-Leadership, and networking opportunities across all cohorts.
⇒Your Brain: What’s New: Recent insights from neuroscience have greatly expanded the knowledge of how the brain works—and what it means for those who lead in high stakes, high pressure situations.
⇒The Situation: Beyond Situational Awareness: NPLI faculty have developed two new tools—the POP-DOC Loop and The Situation Map to help leaders better understand what they confront and maintain disciplined thinking as the decide what should be done.
⇒Connectivity: Swarm Leadership: Drawing on their research into the Boston Marathon bombing response, NPLI faculty will share a leadership behavior model designed to optimize multi-organizational performance within ICS/NIMS and other structured incident management systems.
⇒Agile Meta-Leadership: Adaptation & Transformation: Among the most vexing challenges facing leaders today for the components of their organizations to adapt swiftly, simultaneously, and synchronously to fast-evolving challenges. Invited speakers Peter Neffenger (former TSA Administrator) and Richard Serino (former FEMA Deputy Administrator) share practical meta-leadership experiences leading an interactive dialog.
⇒Next Gen: Developing Emerging Meta-Leaders: In effective organizations, leadership is cultivated in a development arc from top to bottom, novice to master, across a multi-generational workforce. NPLI faculty present their latest research and lead a discussion on changing expectations and opportunities.
