These programs offer participants interactive learning, superlative instructors, networking with colleagues, and engaging discussions of key management and leadership issues. Participants will enhance their leadership and management skills while forming a collegial learning community with their peers. Enrollment in these programs is limited to provide a small group learning community of future leaders.
A highly competitive career-development opportunity, the LGMF program is for recent MPA/MPP graduates looking for their first job in local government management. Fellows are selected through a competitive process and placed in one- and two-year full-time management-track local government positions, shaped by direct mentorship under senior government leaders and rotational assignments. Positions are limited annually based on the number of host governments available to fund positions. This is an annual fellowship program with a fall application process for spring/summer placement.
Two-year Emerging Leaders Development Program featuring completion of the ICMA Essential Management Skills Certificate, a credentialed manager to serve as a career coach for two years, and Management Application Project participants design to demonstrate what they have learned.
Leadership ICMA is an intensive two-year program designed for members who have at least three years of management experience in local government or a related field to cultivate key leadership competencies needed for success at all levels of local government management. Year two culminates in the completion of a peer assistance project designed to apply what has been learned in the program.
The ICMA Voluntary Credentialing Program is a means of defining and recognizing an individual ICMA member who is a professional local government manager qualified by a combination of education and experience, adherence to high standards of integrity, and an assessed commitment to lifelong learning and professional development. Managers are recognized by ICMA through a peer review credentialing process, and this self-directed program offers an opportunity for interested ICMA members to quantify the unique expertise they bring to their communities.
The Legacy Leaders program honors credentialed managers who coach the next generation and support their professional development and membership in ICMA.
Additional Development Programs, Credentialed Manager-preferred:
May 16-18, 2012
Gettysburg Hotel & Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The sixth annual, highly-rated ICMA Gettysburg Leadership Institute will be held in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, starting with dinner on Wednesday night and ending on Friday evening. Participants will stay at the historic Gettysburg Hotel. The program is limited to 30 senior executives, with special consideration given to ICMA Credentialed Managers. This small group will meet to study the leadership lessons of Gettysburg, and join colleagues in an exploration of personal leadership, organizational effectiveness, disaster management, and the lessons of history. Much of the program takes place on the battlefield itself.
For Credentialed Managers and other senior executives:
May 5-12, 2012
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
The sixth annual ICMA SEI Leadership Institute will be held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The program is limited to 21 senior executives, with special consideration given to ICMA Credentialed Managers. This institute offers 7 days of intensive, interactive learning alongside 15 members of the "next-gen" Leadership ICMA class. The curriculum, designed by the faculty at UVA's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service and Felicia Logan, ICMA's Director of Leadership Development, is varied. The faculty is well grounded in the needs and concerns of the top local government executive. You will have ample opportunity to hone skills and test strategies that can help you build a high performance organization. This special Senior Executive Institute "super session" is a unique opportunity for you to experience the core of the regular two week SEI program packed into 7 days.
This program has helped me develop an invaluable network of friends and colleagues who share my passion for local government management, and also has provided me with leading-edge philosophies and tools for managing communities.
Mark Israelson, director of Customer & Utility Services, city of Plano, TX
The Leadership ICMA program is built on a foundation of focused academic study of the latest and most relevant management theory, highlighted with the capstone of applying those lessons through real-world consulting experience at the highest levels in local government management. It is at once pragmatic and inspiring. Beyond the valuable content and the exceptional project work, the truly priceless element of the program is the team building. Professional networking at conferences gets you introductory contacts, but this program transformed talented, insightful peers into trusted, precious friends I will call on for personal and professional advice for a lifetime. I can't imagine a more powerful ROI than that.
Michelle Poché, organizational development administrator, city of Rockville, MD