- Type Learning
- Level Foundational
- Time Months
- Cost Free
Lenexa Leadership Foundations 2022
Issued by
Park University
Participants of this badge have completed the inaugural 6 courses in the Lenexa Leadership Foundations course. Participants were chosen by the Lenexa HR team along with department heads as the next up-and-coming leaders. By completing this course they have developed themselves into more equipped leaders for their department, coworkers, and the City of Lenexa.
- Type Learning
- Level Foundational
- Time Months
- Cost Free
Skills
- 360-degree Leadership
- Active Listening Skills
- Adapability
- Adaptive Leadership; Team Building; Change Management
- Analytical Skills / Critical Thinking
- Applying Emotional Intelligence
- Apply Prosci ADKAR Model
- Building Empathy
- Conflict Management Skills
- Creating Psychological Safety
- DEI
- Delegation
- Emotional Awareness Of Self And Others
- Followership
- Predictive Index Strengths
- Working Genius
Earning Criteria
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During the first course of Lenexa Leadership Foundations 2022, the participants spent time getting to know their own leadership styles. Each participant worked through their own Predictive index, the ebbs and flow of leadership and followership, and how to build psychological safety.
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Session two of the Lenexa Leadership Foundation Course focused deeper into the communication of leaders. Participants discussed emotional intelligence, how to manage conflict and have a crucial conversation, active listening skills, and finally the importance of delegation for a leader and trusting their team. In this session, the City of Lenexa also presented their policies for handling difficult conversations to give the participants an entire tool kit as a supervisor with adversity to manage.
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Topics in Session three of the LLF course discussed the importance of DEIB. Participants talked through blind spots, terms typically associated with DEI like bias and privilege. While participants discussed DEI they also focused on how we are alike with activities that highlight each of our desire to feel a sense of belonging. The City of Lenexa also helped to outline hiring practices for the group and discuss ways of fostering diversity in future hires.
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Session four of the course challenged participants to think about silos and how they affect the city. Participants discussed how silos could be broken down, even when departments are spread out across the city. Participants also discussed how the inclusion of citizens in their thought process continues to grow the organization. In the final hour of the session, students talked about how to develop their team members with the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership.
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Session five of the course allowed reflection time for the skills developed in previous classes. Students were given activities to deepen their understanding of each skill. Activities included: leadership philosophy, empathy vs sympathy and the communication feedback loop. Students also spent time as a group working through problem-solving and how to take each step. The final portion of this session included a leadership panel with City Management and time to discuss their upcoming project.
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In the final session of the program, City Management walked through the Lenexa Strategic Planning process for both Lenexa 2020 and Lenexa 2030. This primed participants for how they begin to be a leader through change. The group focused on the ADKAR model and the role of a leader during change management and adversity. Students also reviewed their leadership toolbox of all the skills they acquired from the course over the previous 6 months.
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The final activity for the participants of Lenexa Leadership Foundations will be presenting a project to the City that will demonstrate the leadership skills they developed during their course. Each member of the group will provide insightful feedback to the City about the bottlenecks and pain points they notice with their leadership skills more fully developed and how they can help to improve the City moving forward, both for the employees and the citizen who live, work and play there.