The Emerging Managers stream of the Leadership Development Program is specifically designed to meet the needs of current front-line supervisors. As well as staff who are expected to lead projects and teams or are preparing for future growth opportunities in management within the GNWT. Each module deals with management issues and challenges and provides an open environment in which participants may discuss changes, concerns and ideas relevant to northern public service.
This stream has 4 modules and will help participants view their workplace, and those with whom they work, with sharper focus and clarity. Participants gain an understanding of why they behave in a certain way and why others may behave differently in the same situation. This stream also helps participants understand the options available to them as they perform their daily tasks and interact with others.
Emerging Managers are provided with a leadership tool kit to support them throughout their leadership journey.
The modules are intended to facilitate personal development in relation to the six GNWT behavioural competencies:
The program has been designed for:
Departments will select successful candidates based on the Affirmative Action Policy. Participants must declare their status when submitting their application.
This module assists front-line leaders to develop abilities in communication, raising self-awareness, building effective teams, and understanding the impact of others.
Participants examine their personal leadership values related to the GNWT’s public service values, mission, ethics and goals.Through coaching and impactful conversations, participants begin to understand reasons for motivation, which helps create stronger leaders in the GNWT.
This module addresses relationship building, trust, valuing diversity, and the art of management up – all of which result in being a productive GNWT leader/manager and building high performance and dynamic teams.Participants learn how to lead through strengths and inspiring their teams, as well as engaging internal and external stakeholders.An introduction to the Action Learning Project also takes place.
The Action Learning Project is intended to address an existing workplace challenge, and in doing so, benefits participants and their work unit.The program supports participants throughout their project development by providing frameworks from which they can build project plans, receive coaching from instructors and peer mentor groups. The project is introduced in this Module, and between Modules 2 and 3, participants are expected to meet with their supervisor, develop the project and get feedback from instructors.
This module requires participants to come prepared with a finalized idea for discussion in their peer mentor groups.Presentations take place on the last day of the program in Module 4.These projects are not intended to increase the workload of the participants. Rather, they are projects that the participants are planning on implementing as part of their role.This gives an opportunity to apply what has been learned in the program in a real life scenario.
This module will provide the opportunity for participants to spend time understanding their own reaction to change in a complex environment as well as effective resource management. They also learn how to build strategic relationships and focus to achieve results. Finally, the Action Learning Projects are presented to the class.
