Leadership And Management Skills For Political Leaders Training Course

Course Overview

This training triggers, the participants to assess their current leadership styles and critically analyses what works and what doesn’t. It further gives the participants skills and know-how to expertly handle challenges and implement their visions for success. It covers a wide scope of leadership and management skills; leading change, building an agile and resilient mindset, setting direction through strategic leadership among other leadership aspects that are of great value in leadership.

Course Duration

4 days

Course Objectives

At the end of this training, the participants will be able to:

1. Build respected leadership qualities and refine your authentic leadership voice 
2. Inspire engagement and commitment that fuel excellence
3. Become a leading agent of transformative change
4. Take the courageous path to create a vision and direction for others to pursue
5. Develop agility and resilience to evolve and thrive
6. Propel your people toward greater passion, performance and profit
7. Build a culture of respect, trust and high performance that inspires excellence at all levels
8. Identify techniques for building consensus in anticipation of resistance

Topics to be Covered

DAY 1: Building an Agile and Resilient Mindset

• Contrast agile and resilient organizations with traditional organizations
• Improve agility and resilience in your organization
• Motivate others toward agile and resilient mindsets and behaviors
• Further develop your personal agility and resilience

DAY 2: Leading Change

• Identify techniques for building consensus in anticipation of resistance
• Describe how to secure commitment and cooperation through change initiatives
• Good governance and value based leadership in county assemblies
• Effective use of parliamentary procedures as a leader
• Leading effective assembly meetings (plenary and committee meetings)
• Tools of parliamentary diplomacy

DAY 3: Building Engagement and Commitment

• Identify the Most Effective Leadership Style and Conversation Goal for Conducting Team Interaction
• Build a team culture around trust
• Motivate and engage
• Coach to drive performance
• Identify areas of development for individuals and teams to improve performance
• Distinguishing the four team types
• Exploring the principles that make teams work
• Diagnosing work-teams: a work-team simulation

• Foundations of transformational leadership

DAY 4: Setting Direction Through Strategic Leadership

• Setting Direction Through Strategic Leadership
• Understand strategic thinking for leaders
• Understanding leadership style and the situation
• Emphasizing the importance of vision in aligning team performance
• Integrating your leadership and managerial roles by applying insights gained from your current leadership position
• Communicate strategic direction with stakeholders

DAY 5: Navigating Organizational Politics

• Building power and influence
• Describing and applying nine different influence strategies
• Differentiating between good politics and bad politics
• why leaders must understand and participate in organizational politics
• Describe how leaders develop and advance their leadership agenda
• Explain strategies for getting others to support your agenda
• Cope with and survive the agendas of adversaries

General Notes

·         All our courses can be Tailor-made to participants needs

·         The participant must be conversant with English

·          Presentations are well guided, practical exercises, web-based tutorials, and group work. Our facilitators are experts with more than 10years of experience

·          Upon completion of training, the participant will be issued with a Global King Project Management certificate

·         Training will be done at the Global King Project Management Centers (Nairobi Kenya, Mombasa Kenya, Kigali Rwanda, Dubai ,Lagos  Nigeria and More others).

·         A discount of 20% will be given to more than 4 participants from same organization.

·         Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.      

·         Payment should be done before commencement of the training, to the Global King Project Management account, so as to enable us to prepare better for you.

·         For any inquiry to:  [email protected] or +254 114 830 889

·         Website: www.globalkingprojectmanagement.org

·         Tablet and Laptops are provided to participants on request as an add-on cost to the training fee

·          The course fee for onsite training includes facilitation training materials, 2 coffee breaks, a buffet lunch, and a Certificate of successful completion of Training. Participants will be responsible for their own travel expenses and arrangements, airport transfers, visa application dinners, health/accident insurance, and other personal expenses.