Strategies for Creating Tomorrow’s Planning Leaders
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Learning Outcomes
- Understand the traits and characteristics needed to move into planning leadership and advance one's career.
- Identify the benefits of leadership training for organizations, APA, and individuals.
- Learn about low-cost internal leadership programs that can be tailored to local governments or APA chapters.
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Planners preparing to assume leadership positions must learn a range of new skills to succeed. Becoming a leader requires enhancing traits like emotional intelligence, decision making, communication, and executive presence.
Just as many Baby Boomer leaders are retiring, budgets for training programs remain limited. This means local governments and APA chapters must develop creative ways to prepare the next generation of planning leadership.
This course is aimed at planning directors seeking to develop staff, planners interested in furthering their own leadership skills, and APA chapters that may wish to initiate local programs. It outlines:
- skill sets needed for success in planning leadership
- the tangible benefits of mentoring and training programs
- best practices for creating a leadership program on a limited budget
Speakers also cover why leadership development and succession planning are important, how these initiatives can increase staff morale and strengthen APA's presence in the local planning community, and successful case studies from three states.
Leaders provide perspectives on programs they initiated. Mid-career program particpants offer insights, and the course includes feedback on training experiences and lessons learned that are applicable to other programs.