An adapted version of the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute’s Leadership Academy for Child Welfare Leaders (Academy) is available through the Butler Institute. The Leadership Academy is relevant for leaders across different content areas, including early childhood, education, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, behavioral health, and more, as this training builds essential skills for managing change, leading people, leading for results, building strong collaboratives by leading in context and developing organizational cultures of racial equity, safety and learning. Butler certified coaches provide individualized and peer-group coaching for leaders in the program, and we offer evaluation support to ensure competency gains and transfer of learning.
Butler typically offers the Leadership Academy over nine to 12 months. The Academy's five learning modules include:
- Fundamentals of Leadership
- Leading Change
- Leading in Context
- Leading for Results
- Leading People
Each module includes an asynchronous online learning component and a synchronous experiential learning session that can be delivered in person or virtually. Participants engage in online pre-learning instruction, optional assessments and individual one-on-one leadership coaching from certified Butler coaches. The Leadership Academy also includes 360 feedback assessments aligned with the Leadership Competency Framework. This framework was informed by best-practice leadership literature across public and private sectors. We can customize the Leadership Academy to meet your agency’s needs and interests for format, duration, content and more. Data indicates the Leadership Academy successfully advances leadership competencies of participants by increasing their knowledge, skills and ability to develop and implement a meaningful change project aligned with agency workforce efforts.