Leadership Development Branch (FC-LDR)

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Commandant (FC-LDR)
U.S. Coast Guard
2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE
Stop 7907
Washington, D.C. 20593-7907

Senior Enlisted Leadership Course (SELC) (501799)

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About the Course

The Senior Enlisted Leadership Course (SELC) is focused on creating a pool of highly trained and motivated senior enlisted leaders better prepared for assignment to a Master Chief or Senior Chief Petty Officer billet including select high-profile assignments, such as Command Master Chief and Rating Force Master Chief.

Using the U.S. Coast Guard’s Leadership Development Framework, SELC develops critical leadership skills required of Senior Enlisted Leadership positions by addressing human resource and organizational policies, professional communications, the relationships between workforce and senior leadership, and concepts of strategy and organizational change management.

Go here for Frequently Asked Questions about the Enlisted Leadership Development Continuum.


Location

Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut
Length: 6 weeks asynchronous online, 2 weeks resident 


Convening Dates

Class

Online Dates

 

Residency 

Graduation

114  20 OCT 2025 - 28 NOV 2025  01 DEC 2025   12 DEC 2025 
115  15 DEC 2025 - 23 JAN 2026  27 JAN 2026  06 FEB 2026 
116  12 JAN 2026 - 20 FEB 2026  23 FEB 2026  06 MAR 2026 
117  09 FEB 2026 - 20 MAR 2026  23 MAR 2026  03 APR 2026 
118  16 MAR 2026 - 24 APR 2026  26 APR 2026  08 MAY 2026 
119 03 AUG 2026 - 11 SEP 2026  14 SEP 2026  25 SEP 2026 

Prerequisites

Prospective students must be in pay grade E-8 or E-9. Students must have successfully completed the CPO Academy or DoD equivalent, comply with Coast Guard or parent service as applicable weight standards with a current entry in Direct Access within the 30-day period prior to executing their orders, and must be up to date with their Physical Health Assessment (PHA).

To graduate, students are required to participate in the six-week facilitated online learning portion prior to arrival for the two-week resident training at the Leadership Development Center. 

Students are also required to complete the following prior to attending the course:

  • A grammar skills diagnostic exercise
  • A leadership assessment (LPI 360) survey
  • Reading assignments

Leadership Development Requirements for Enlisted Advancement FAQs


Target Audience

Priority:

  • E-9 without SELC
  • E-8 above the cut for E-9
  • E-8

To Attend

Members interested in attending should put in an ETR to compete for a seat.


Orders cancellation and advancement waivers

Process for E-9 criteria waiver:

  1. Member is assigned orders to SELC and needs to cancel those orders.
  2. Reach out to ETQC course scheduler and the SELC Course Chief to be assigned another convening to attend.
  3. Member can request a waiver of the advancement policy to PPC (ADV) thru their first flag and FC-L. Find an example memo here >>  
  4. If the member’s name comes up on an EPAA and they do not have a waiver and have not graduated, advancement will be withheld until the 1st or 15th of the month following graduation from SELC or equivalent DoD course.

 


Contacts

Program Manager MCPO Joe Hoff, Joseph.R.Hoff@uscg.mil

For U.S. Navy attendance inquiries, contact SCPO Scott Ewart at Ward.S.Ewart@uscg.mil


More Information

For prerequisites, location, and application procedures please visit the appropriate TQC webpage. 

More information can also be found by visiting the Leadership Development Center's website at: http://www.cga.edu/subsites/ldccourses.aspx?id=2843

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