# Executive Leadership Excellence Course (Self-Paced)

Canonical URL: <https://www.graduateschool.edu/courses/executive-leadership-excellence-course-self-paced>

## Overview

Executive Leadership Excellence is designed for federal employees who want to elevate their leadership impact beyond positional authority or technical expertise. The course focuses on what distinguishes executive leadership excellence—building credibility and trust, applying sound judgment, and using consistent, observable behaviors that help people and organizations perform at their best, especially in high-pressure, high-scrutiny environments.

You will strengthen leadership foundations through trust and integrity, apply core leadership principles (such as consistency, accountability, transparency, and respect), and avoid common pitfalls that undermine credibility and performance. The course also develops practical behaviors for setting expectations and accountability without micromanagement, using coaching to build future leaders and succession readiness, leading through change and uncertainty with clarity and composure, and creating conditions for high-performing teams through collaboration, trust, and shared accountability.

## What you'll learn

- Reexamine what distinguishes executive leadership excellence from positional authority or technical expertise.
- Strengthen trust and integrity as essential drivers of organizational performance.
- Apply core leadership principles while avoiding common pitfalls that undermine credibility.
- Practice key leadership behaviors that improve expectations, accountability, and empowerment.
- Maximize expectations and accountability while avoiding micromanagement.
- Use coaching intentionally to develop future leaders and strengthen succession readiness.
- Prepare teams for change and uncertainty with clarity, composure, and confidence.
- Create the conditions for strong team performance through collaboration, trust, and shared accountability.

## Curriculum

#### Module 1: Overview of Leadership Excellence

- Define executive leadership excellence and distinguish it from positional authority or technical expertise.
- Describe the core elements of effective executive leadership including leadership foundations, leadership principles, and leadership behaviors.
- Reflect on your own leadership impact.

#### Module 2: Trust and Integrity as Leadership Foundations

- Explain how trust and integrity directly impact organizational performance.
- Explain how trust and integrity directly impact employee engagement.
- Identify how to determine a leader's level of trust and integrity.

#### Module 3: Leadership Principles and Pitfalls

- Apply core leadership principles that support consistency, accountability, and credibility.
- Identify common leadership pitfalls that undermine trust and performance.
- Develop strategies to strengthen core leadership principles and avoid leadership pitfalls.

#### Module 4: Key Leadership Behaviors

- Define key leadership behaviors for leadership excellence.
- Identify how key leadership behaviors drive engagement.
- Connect how key leadership behaviors drive performance.

#### Module 5: Maximizing Expectations and Accountability

- Define and communicate clear expectations.
- Understand the connection between expectations and accountability and micromanagement.
- Connect these activities to key leadership behaviors.

#### Module 6: Coaching and Succession Readiness

- Use coaching intentionally to develop future leaders.
- Strengthen succession readiness by identifying and developing leadership capabilities.
- Connect these activities to key leadership behaviors.

#### Module 7: Anticipating and Preparing for Change

- Identify the early indicators of change and assess their potential impact.
- Apply leadership strategies to prepare others for uncertainty and disruption.
- Connect these activities to key leadership behaviors.

#### Module 8: Strengthening Team Performance

- Identify the leadership conditions and practices that enable strong team performance.
- Apply strategies to improve collaboration, trust, and shared accountability within teams.
- Connect these activities to the key leadership behaviors.

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $1049