Leadership Foundations
Developing Leadership Values
Define your guiding principles and turn them into visible behaviors that show integrity and accountability.
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Through relevant workplace examples, this course develops skills in values-led leadership decisions. Participants learn to define guiding principles and translate them into visible behaviors, with a focus on practical follow-through.
What you'll learn
- Identify and embrace core leadership values
- Utilize ethical standards to lead with integrity and accountability
- Foster inclusive and courageous leadership
- Use course methods to define guiding principles and translate them into visible behaviors in a workplace scenario.
- Develop a leadership values statement and behavior plan aligned to a relevant work need.
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a workplace need connected to values-led leadership decisions.
- Select an appropriate way to define guiding principles and translate them into visible behaviors.
- Explain the reasoning behind that choice and identify its limitations.
- Produce a leadership values statement and behavior plan that addresses a relevant work need.
- Set review points for a leadership values statement and behavior plan and identify one adjustment.
Federal leaders are entrusted with public resources and responsibility, and their values shape every decision they make. This course helps supervisors and managers define their guiding principles and translate them into visible, consistent behaviors. It supports OPM's updated Executive Core Qualifications, including commitment to the rule of law and service to the public.
What you'll learn
- Identify core leadership values and their connection to public service.
- Apply ethical standards to lead with integrity and accountability.
- Translate values into observable leadership behaviors.
- Recognize situations that test leadership values.
- Develop a personal leadership values statement.
What you'll be able to do
- Lead with integrity and consistency.
- Make decisions that reflect public service values.
- Model the behaviors they expect from others.
- Handle values-based dilemmas with confidence.
- Build trust through visible, values-driven leadership.