ADVANCED LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR PUBLIC SECTOR SUCCESS
Live-Online Training: N250,000.
Classroom Training: N350,000
3 - 4 participants: 5% discount
5 or more participants: 10% discount
(Available also for Customised Training by Duration, Venue & Fee)
Programme Description
Leadership challenges persist in Nigeria's Public Sector, spanning the Federal, State, and Local Government levels. The dynamic nature of leadership necessitates continual adaptation to new paradigms, emerging technologies, and team dynamics intricacies.
This specialised Advanced Leadership and Management Training initiative is designed explicitly for Senior Managers, Deputy Directors, and Directors.
The primary goal of this program is to empower these critical organisational figures with the knowledge, skills, and strategies required to navigate complexities, encourage innovation, and drive sustained success.
Course Objectives
1. Strategic Vision and Decision-Making: Enhance the formulation and implementation of strategic visions for directors and deputy directors, fostering agility and adaptability in decision-making processes.
2. Effective Team Leadership: Develop advanced leadership skills to construct and lead high-performance teams, emphasising collaboration, motivation, and talent development.
3. Change Management: Equip participants with strategies to effectively lead organisational change, manage resistance, and ensure a smooth transition for the team and the organisation.
4. Innovation and Creativity: Cultivate an organisational culture of innovation and creativity, empowering leaders to inspire and drive continuous improvement.
5. Effective Communication and Stakeholder Management: Enhance communication skills for successful interaction with internal and external stakeholders, promoting transparency and alignment with organisational goals.
6. Ethical Leadership: Instill a solid ethical foundation in leadership, emphasising integrity, accountability, and responsible decision-making.
Course Contents
DAY ONE
Your Strategic Vision as a Leader
· Enhancement of your Commercialization Talent as a Public Service Officer
· Your Principal Functions in Commercial Activities Controlled by Government
· Your Leadership Principles and Standards for Responsible Business Conduct
· Your Requirements for Appropriate Levels of Accountability
· Successful Handling of Law Makers’ Oversight Functions in Your Duties
· Your Propensity and Ability to Deliver Above Average Performances.
Leading People for Value-Added Accomplishments
· Pursuit of Quantifiable Outcomes for Your Services
· Making a Difference as a Leader within Your Existing Constraints
· Applicable Techniques to Motivate Staff for Peak Performance
· How to Build Your People’s Core Strengths
· Propagating the Need for Reliability in the People You Lead.
DAY TWO
Your Decision-Making and Problem-Solving Capabilities
· Your Strategic Thinking Within the Public Service Setting
ü How the concept of strategy in government has been changing
ü Current strategic issues in your business structure
ü Being strategic in the context of your service delivery
ü Leading your people within the current public policy processes
ü Exploring the plausible future state of affairs
ü Initiate new strategic initiatives.
· Your Leadership Roles in Shaping Policy Agenda
ü Mastering the relevant processes
ü Skills with problem identification
ü Alternative policy suggestions.
· Developing the skills needed for working in a political environment.
DAY THREE
Effective Team Leadership Proficiency
· The Hard Things About Your Leadership Accountability in the Public Service
ü Hard to measure success.
ü Hard to untangle individual contributions.
ü Hard-to-time effects of decisions
ü Hard to measure the effects of external factors.
ü Your focus on efficient and equitable staff contribution
· Setting targets for Deliverables within the Public Sector Setting
· Public Sector Leadership in Difficult Times
ü Leading teams through a period of limited resources
ü Signs of difficult economic times
ü Signs of difficult political times.
DAY FOUR
Your Leadership Role as a Driver of Change
· Major Changes in Nigeria’s Political, Social, and Economic Landscape
· Leading Service Transformation and Modernization
· Designing Your Service for a Digital World
· Making More Effective Use of Resources - human, financial and physical
· Responsiveness to the Growing Diversity & Inclusion Awareness
· Delivering on the Customer Promise.
Your Business and the Future with the Political Class
· Clear Definition of the Outcomes Politicians Seek
· Policy Development and Advice
· Structuring Policy to be Forward-Looking.
Innovation and Creativity
· Leading Innovations
ü Your appetite to take risks and innovate
ü Risk-taking in your public and commercial responsibilities
DAY FIVE
Leadership Communication and Ethics in the Public Service
· Policy Coordination and Harmonization
· Your Internal Communication Effectiveness:
ü Leadership competencies
ü Systems, processes and procedures management
ü Knowledge and skills management
· Managing Relationships and Partnerships
ü With the public
ü With the workforce
ü With the politicians
ü Among officials at the top of the executive government
· Cooperation and Coordination Across other MDAs
· Effective Communication under Crisis Situations
ü Under the glare of the media
ü Scrutiny of public analysts.
· Capturing Various Interest Groups, Influences and Agendas:
ü Pundits
ü The media
ü Other interest groups and actors.
Ethical Leadership
· Models of Values and Ethics
· Key Elements of Values and Ethics in Nigeria’s Public Service
· Current International Best Practice
· Re-assertion of Public Service Values
· Ethical Approach to Public Service Management
· Leading the Upgrade in Public Service Ethics and Values
· The Difficult Ethical Issues in Today's Public Service
· Pursuing Ethical Fitness Using Philosophical Principles
· Guidelines for Evolving Improved Ethical Culture of Government.