Collaboration Skills for Public Sector Leaders

This interactive, skill-building class teaches leaders the skills for effective collaboration – both within and across organizations.   These skills include the discussion of and practice in the use of emotional intelligence skills, improved listening and communications, shared goal-setting and collaborative decision-making and guidelines for sustaining collaboration. 

Time:  3 hours

Leslie Clarke, Ph.D. is Senior Associate at Harder + Company Community Research.   She has provided evaluation and performance improvement research and planning support to state and county government agencies, in areas of children’s services, health, human services and welfare.  She has created and directed welfare to work and public health programs, leading teams of staff, volunteers and community leaders to create successful programs.  She has published more than 50 articles and reports on the outcomes of community programs.  She has also provided executive coaching and organizational consulting to non-profits, foundations and for-profit agencies in the areas of improved employee, team and organizational performance.   Her passion is supporting high performance public sector leaders to create organizational success, through improved leadership, employee management and performance evaluation. 

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