Creating the Next Generation of
Leaders:
Professional Development Approaches
Karen Flippo
Sheila Fesko
Institute for Community Inclusion
Agenda
• Approaches to professional
development
– Mentoring
– Performance evaluations/professional
development
– Training
• Innovative approaches
• Just in time options
• Leadership certificate program
Mentoring
• Does your organization create a
culture that encourages learning
and mentorship?
• Does your organization have a
formal process for career
development?
Performance Evaluation
Performance Evaluation
• Consistently done?
• Addressing goals and development
opportunities?
• Discussing demonstration
leadership?
– Not just review of job functions
SMART Goals
Training approaches
• Interactive Learning
experiences
• Simulation
Simulation Person Centered
Planning
Just in time learning
CES video
Leadership Certificate Program
• Executive and Mid-Level
Leadership Development
Leadership Succession
• Developing a new generation
of leadership for disability
services
• Massachusetts based
• Adapted from established
leadership and management
certificate programs
Leadership and Management
• Tailored for IDD executive and
mid level leadership
• Designed with input from MA
provider community
Course Topics
• Overview of disability services
(history, values, systems,
origins, laws, DD competency)
• Mission based decision making
• Legal and ethical issues
• Project management
Course Topics
• Self understanding: self
assessment
• Develop clarity of personal
values, purpose and vision
• Develop and execute a
personal strategy
Course Topics
• Change Management
• Working with Others:
Interpersonal and Relationship
Skills
• Understand and appreciate
diversity of perspective and
style
Course Topics
• Team development
• Communication Skills
• Risk Management
• Collaborative Relationships
• Coaching and Motivating
• Customer Relations
Course Topics
• Setting and monitoring
performance standards
• Working with others: Strategic
business acumen
• Systems thinking approaches
Course Topics
• General business acumen:
strategic planning, finance,
marketing, program
development
• Setting, communicating, and
monitoring milestones and
objectives
Course Topics
• Prioritizing and allocating
resources
Course Topics
• Creating and Actualizing Vision
• Managing your own transition
and transformation, managing
an external change initiative,
(coaching others through
transition)