Alaska Municipality League

High Performance Leadership Academy

NACo High Performance Leadership Academy

The NACo High Performance Leadership Academy is a virtual 10-week program with proven outcomes equipping frontline county professionals with practical leadership skills. The NACo HPLA training, led by our partners at the Professional Development Academy, prepares county leaders for success.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Leadership Academy

6 Week Program: Starting January, April, August, or November
Cost: 1st participant – $1000 each | 2 or more participants – $750 each 

Request Info: https://www.naco.org/page/naco-artificial-intelligence-ai-leadership-academy
Demystify AI with practical, relevant, and immediately actionable tools and use case examples. The program explores strategies for mitigating risks, addressing ethical challenges, and maximizing the positive impact of AI on governments and the communities they serve.

HLPA Graduates can earn continuing education credits eligible for the following institutions:

  • (45) Society for Human Resource Management
  • (24) International Association of Assessing Officers
  • (48) International City/County Management Association
  • International Institute of Municipal Clerks
    • (8) Certified Municipal Clerk Experience
    • (8) Master Municipal Clerk Advanced Education, or
    • (8) Master Municipal Clerk Professional Contribution

For HPLA enrollees’ managers
Managers will receive regular dashboard reports outlining the progress of their staff. Managers are encouraged to advise and support participants with content as it relates to individual development plans.

When is the next cohort?
NACo is continually enrolling participants. Email, JJ Wooten to learn about the next program start.

What is the cost?
Alaska Municipal League Members can enroll staff at a discounted rate of $1,995.

  • First-time Enrolling County/Borough: first participant can enroll for $1,000 rather than $1,995.
  • Volume Discounts for Alaska’s Municipalities:
    • 1st participant – $1995 each
    • 2-4th participants – $1500 each
       
    • 5+ participants – $1000 each

Testimonials from Alaskans

Haines Borough, Fire Chief: “I did not know how desperately I was treading water as a department head until this course. I was so busy trying to keep everything afloat that I could not see the gage was bouncing on empty. This Academy has been a Godsend! I am soaking everything in and am eager to advance on a new vector, raise the bar and aim for excellence.”

Petersburg Borough, Parks & Recreation Director: “For me, this was affirmation as to how I lead – plus a lot more!! It was also helpful in so many ways (networking, new ideas, hearing others with the same issues), and every course was completely relevant to current happenings – it could be used all the time, anytime.”

Saint Paul, City Manager: “I think the most valuable aspect of the program was the focus on ‘it’s all about people’. Sometimes we get wrapped up in reports, data, and other aspects of our jobs and forget to connect with our people. This program reminded me to take the time to focus on working with my team.”

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The Professional Development Academy has had a positive impact for me personally and to my career. It stressed the importance of building an atmosphere of trust within the organization; to empower employees so they feel engaged and productive; to renew focus of the Borough’s mission and to revisit and reestablish the Borough’s core values and most importantly the need to stay positive.

Anne Bailey, Administrator, Aleutians East Borough

 

The primary area that I have incorporated this material into would absolutely be change management. Although I have a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and have taken several Project Management courses, the information presented on this topic was refreshing and helpful. I now take a slower approach to change management and spend more meaningful time and energy on communicating the WHY in any change implementation. I have already started to see the benefits on this approach in many of the projects I am working on here in Seward.

Stephen Sowell, Assistant City Manager, City of Seward