Overview
OEP designed the Executive Leadership Program for the Intelligence Community (IC) to enhance the performance of IC senior officials in four leadership competencies described by the Office of Personnel Management. These competencies include: Technical Leadership, Strategic and Tactical Awareness and Planning, Oversight and Risk Management, and Effective Change Management. The Program allows senior managers to meet academics and practitioners who have been recognized for making significant contributions to the art of management and who are sensitive to the constraints the IC and its constituency face.

Program Content
This four-day program utilizes leading experts in the field and individuals who have had a mix of business and public sector experience. In addition, session leaders possess a technical background that allows for successful interaction and response to the highly technical needs of program participants. Program sessions focus on the following four competencies:

1. Technical Leadership includes those skills necessary for managers to lead technical staffs. Skill sets include, but are not limited to, writing, communicating, persuasion and motivating people to perform.
2. Strategic and Tactical Awareness and Planning involves knowing where one wants to go and making strategic shifts when needed. Skill sets include strategic thinking, visioning, creativity/innovation, collaborating, and maintaining flexibility to adjust to changing circumstances.
3. Oversight and Risk Management involves having frameworks for analyzing and undertaking risks to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Skill sets include resources management, financial management, monitoring and evaluation, financial management, and accountability.

4. Effective Change Management empowers individuals to make timely shifts within personal and organizational contexts in response to changing external forces. Skill sets includes elements of continual learning, external awareness, flexibility, resilience, integrity/honesty, partnering and political savvy.

These competencies are addressed through both traditional academic presentations scheduled for the morning of each session day and are further reinforced by more individualized skill development sessions and interactive, small group exercises scheduled for the afternoon of each session day. The curriculum is designed to allow participants time to examine their own leadership, management and negotiation styles. Skill sessions go beyond an abstract discussion of the four competencies and create situations in which participants gain invaluable insights into the effects of their personal interactions.