LeadVR 2024 National Training Academy Cohort 2
November 14, 2024March 12, 2025
Event Information
Registration Status: OPEN
Registration Ends: Friday, November 1, 2024
Session 1: Introduction to Supervisory Leadership (Virtual) (November 14, 11 am – 3 pm CST)
- In this 4-hour virtual session, LeadVR participants introduce themselves and share their greatest accomplishments, meet LeadVR faculty, get an overview of LeadVR curriculum, project work, and expectations, and discuss their greatest challenges in streamlining VR processes, recruitment, and retention, and increasing public awareness of VR services. Participants share solutions and offer their input on what they want to gain from participating in LeadVR and discuss their behavioral assessment findings.
Session 2: In-Person Training (In Person) (November 19-21, Houston, TX)
- During this in-person three-day face-to-face intensive session (location Hyatt Place Galleria, Houston), participants increase their understanding of how supervisory performance impacts the VR agency, field unit, and individual staff, increase their understanding of fiscal and policy decision making, build a support network for frontline agency leadership, apply tools for increased accountability, and establish professional development plans to apply learning in an agency setting.
Session 3: Small Group Coaching and Accountability Group Meetings (Virtual)
- Held over the course of several weeks, Small Group Coaching focuses participants on creating personal leadership development action plans based on feedback from their 360 Assessment. (Coaching dates: December 5, 11, 19, 2024 @ 11 am CST each day). Each coaching session is one hour.
Session 4: Overview of Projects – January 9, 2025 @ 11 am CST (Virtual)
- Participants review guidelines for creating a project proposal.
Session 5: Group Project Work Sessions and Accountability Meetings (Virtual)
- Participants work with faculty to identify strategies for long-term organizational change based on critical issues identified in the three-day face-to-face intensive session. (January 29, February 12, February 25, 2025 @ 11 am CST each day)
Session 6: Graduation and Presentation (March 12, 2025, virtual @ 11 am CST)
- Participants present their strategic findings for organizational change in a graduation recognition.
Registration:
Cohorts are designed to foster cross-agency collaboration. Organizational specific cohorts may also be requested.
The cost is $2,600 per person. Participants will be responsible for travel costs associated with the face-to-face sessions.
Accommodations: The deadline for requesting accommodations is November 1, 2024.
Registration deadline: November 1, 2024
Hotel:
Hyatt Place Houston Galleria
522 W Alabama Street, Houston, TX
Room Rate: $149 per night
Reservation Deadline: November 1, 2024
Faculty:
John Connelly, CSAVR
Dr. Robin Freeman, UA CURRENTS
Veronica Jackson, UA CURRENTS
David Leon, Virginia DARS
Sherrina Sewell, Virginia DARS