United States Institute of Leadership and Diplomacy
Shining Light in the Midst of Darkness
Outcome for Each Leadership Competencies Level Accomplished By Student.
A combination of core classes and electives is expected to put you squarely on the path to career development. You’ll focus on essential leadership competencies while personalizing your own growth journey to help fulfill your Individual Development Plan (IDP).
Gain fundamental skills to grow your confidence as a high-performing, rising leader.
Learn leadership strategies while refining skills for building, managing, and participating in teams and projects.
Build skills that emphasize exercising influence and authority, knowing when to lead and when to manage, and fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Acquire strategies to align operations with organizational priorities, mobilize employees, and create innovative solutions to complex challenges
Readiness assessment to be an executive or member of the Senior Executive Service of your Government. A step next in your career with a focused picture of your leadership strengths - Mastery of ECQs
Emerging and aspiring leaders in non-supervisory or non-managerial roles. Recommend for grades up to GS-9.
Individuals aspiring to be a team lead or currently leading teams or projects. Recommended for grades GS 11-13.
New federal supervisors, supervisors in their first year, or any supervisor wanting to excel. Recommended for grades GS 13-15.
Second-level leaders, supervisor of supervisors, and/or accountable for specific line or staff functions. Recommended for grades GS 14-15.
Experienced supervisors or managers, or any aspiring leader wanting to excel
The Usild Leadership Certificate Experience
In powerful, collaborative environments, learn and practice the skills you need to take on greater responsibilities and advance to the next level of leadership. All courses are taught by faculty with extensive government expertise who bring diverse ideas and techniques to this immersive learning environment.
Learn Alongside Your Peers Build a lasting professional network and grow with your peers in multi-agency courses that bring collective experiences to the learning environment.
Build to Your Strengths Identify and develop your personal strengths with electives and optional individualized coaching sessions.
Reinforce Learning Take courses at your own pace giving you time to digest, reflect, and plan how to transfer learning to on-the-job roles.
Demonstrate Mastery Validate your mastery with a capstone presentation that synthesizes your learning through reflection, planning, and action.
Bring Usild Leadership to Your Agency In addition to individual employees enrolling in the Usild Certificate program, ULCP can also be delivered in a cohort format for groups within your agency. By training tomorrow’s leaders today, the program provides clear progression to support succession management, bringing agencies measurable value through networking and sharing of best practices with the ease of business-to government agreements.
Contact our team to learn how the ULCP Certificate program can develop your organization’s leaders.