This year’s Executive Forum offers you an excellent opportunity to build camaraderie and strengthen your team. As an executive, manager, supervisor, or project leader, you have a group of employees who report to you and support you. Frequently, you hold meetings with these staff members to develop your operating plans, allocate resources, and listen to the demands and challenges these individuals confront in carrying out your office’s mission. 

In planning your upcoming meetings, consider including the 2019 Executive Forum. This year’s theme, “The 2020 Executive Leader: Innovate. Integrate, and Motivate with Purpose and Integrity,” presents a perfect team-building opportunity. Have your team attend as a group that sits together. The next day, hold your traditional business meeting to go over the essentials but also discuss what you learned as a group at the Executive Forum the day before. By holding the Executive Forum on Tuesday, May 21, you have Wednesday available as a meeting day. A group discount is available if you register five or more participants at the same time.

“Leading People” is one of the Senior Executive Service (SES) core qualifications. It encompasses the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission, and goals. Using this Executive Forum as a starting point to discuss leadership ideas for implementing agency programs will help inspire and foster team commitment; build esprit de corps, pride, and trust; facilitate cooperation/collaboration among team members; and motivate individuals to accomplish group goals. 

Moreover, by structuring your meeting this way, you leverage your travel funds by using the same dollars for a program planning meeting AND a leadership training session. Through utilizing this multipurpose approach, you demonstrate keen “Business Acumen,” which, by the way, is another SES executive core qualification. See you in May.