Image above: Graduation from NCDIT's Leadership Development Program Supervisors Track on March 6, 2025.
NCDIT recently graduated 40 team members from the department’s Leadership Development Program, which cultivates leadership skills in both employees who aspire to leadership roles and those who have currently have supervisory responsibilities or manage programs.
Twenty-four team members graduated on Feb. 27 from NCDIT’s Future Leaders Track, while 16 graduated from the Supervisors Track on March 6. Over six months, the participants in both tracks learned about skills to bring out the best in their teams and their colleagues.
NCDIT Secretary Teena Piccione praised the graduates’ pursuit of better leadership as vital to bringing teams together to achieve the department’s goals.
“Leadership is the power of what we can do together,” Piccione said. “It’s the power of how together we can figure out how to move mountains, solve hard problems and then together figure out how to move forward.”
Karen Lee, workforce development manager, encouraged the graduates to lead by “listening, coaching, guiding, having difficult conversations and recognizing accomplishments.”
Human Resources Director Joey Harrison urged them to exercise their leadership skills to benefit their coworkers and the department’s mission, no matter whether they take on formal supervisory roles in the future.
“You were a leader before the cohort began. Think about how you can apply concepts you learned during this experience,” Harrison said.
More than 180 team members have graduated from NCDIT’s Leadership Development program, launched in September 2020 to help retain and grow the department’s workforce.
Graduation from the Future Leaders Track on Feb. 27, 2025.