Senior Executive Skills Development Program

Among the challenges facing executives in ministries, departments, agencies and business organisations are:

• The ability to assess how effective the organisation is.
• instituting and implementing the organisation’s strategic plans, policies, procedures, rules and regulations, the ability to manage the complex tasks and managing diversity.

To handle these challenges effectively requires, among others, the skills of decision-making, administration and understanding of financial statements. This course is designed to assist participants in acquiring the necessary skills to effectively handle the challenges that confront them as executive officers of their organisations.

For Whom:

Senior and Middle level officers in the Federal, State Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Local Government Councils, and Senior and Middle level executives in the organised private sector, who need to improve the performance and productivity of their units, departments and organisations

Learning objectives:

At the end of this program, Participants will be able to:

• demonstrate improved awareness of the importance of inter-functional and inter-personal relations for organisational effectiveness.
• discuss the need to integrate individual and organisational objectives for organisational growth.
• recognises major organisational problems, classifies them and prioritises them for solution.
• discuss methods of effective decision-making under various circumstances; and
• identify structures and systems required for effective organisational performance.

Course outline:

Day 1: Understanding organisational Goals & Objectives:

• Ministries, Departments, Agencies and Business Organizations: Nature and Purpose
• Operational to Strategic Leadership / Management: moving up the ladder
• Clarity of Goals for Personal Development
  • The Power of Personal Goals and Vision
• Leadership: Zone of Empowerment
  • Eliciting and Clarifying Personal Values
• How to 'be' as a senior executive: handling yourself in the role
  • Using your influence at work
• Strategic Priority Setting:
  • Low- and High-Level Goals
• Leveraging delegation for responsive deliveries
• Understanding Economics of Time
  • A Crucial Leadership Skill

Day 2: Strategic Leadership & Management

• Mission and Vision
• Objectives and Strategies
• Leadership approach
  • Visionary and Transformational Leadership Approach
• Power and authority: differences and similarities
• How power works in organisations
• Leading and managing people for organisational productivity

Day 3: The organisation, its culture and its impact on your leadership approach

• Understanding your organisation and its internal politics
  • Managing difficult conversations and meetings
  • Managing upwards and sideways
• Developing and Managing High Performance Team
  • Team building for success
  • Your team leadership style
• Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
• Developing Effective Organisational Communication
  • The leader as communicator
  • Using Emotional Intelligence

Day 4: Understanding Financial Management

• Analysis and Interpretation of Financial Statements
• Balance Sheet
• Cash Flow
• Ratio Analysis
• Income Statement Analysis

Day 5: Motivating, Rewarding and Leading Teams for Productivity Improvement

• Why Do People Behave as They Do?
• Powerful Keys to Motivation
• Understanding Passion,
• Rapport Mastery
• Deep Needs & Fears,
  • The Dynamics of Balance
• Inspiring Enthusiasm,
• Managing & Leading – Style Flexibility
• Impression management: your personal PR

This course package includes Course material in soft copy, Tea break, Lunch, City tour, and certificate of attendance.

A Core 1.5 laptop with the soft copy of the course material pre-loaded, along with a carrying bag, will be presented to the participants at the end of the course.

Note: Payment is either USD or the prevailing parallel market rate.

Training Methodology

• Methodology: Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, and audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods

Course Booking

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