LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT COURSES
DURATION (4 DAYS LECTURE, 1 DAY EDUCATIONAL TOUR)
FEES: USD 2,400.00; LOCATION: USA
Target Audience
- Senior governmental officials ,
- Top executives (VPs, CEO, COO), Directors/Deputies
- General and Mid level Managers;
- Emerging leaders in corporate organizations and public institutions.
- Executive Directors in national and multinational organizations
- Understand leadership and followership roles in creating an empowering work environment and culture that influence and engage all stakeholders in system change.
KLI-LSC-2101a: INTEGRATIVE TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP:
This course is centered on value-based principles that transform and equip a leader and follower for effective service of good work. The course provides the pathways (personal, relational, empowerment, and service) through which a leader can be transformational to selflessly and intentionally motivate and intellectually stimulate followers’ capabilities to achieve great outcomes that grow organizations. Whether you’re serving your church, corporate business, institution, organization, or community, this course is designed to develop the understanding of the role of anybody that aspires to be an effective leader that impacts others and organization
- Understand the dimensions of Transformative Leadership for workforce and systemic growth
- Understand the Leadership Value System for Sustained Organizational growth
- Understand Leadership Character, Motivation, and Commitment to Service
- Understand the Foundation Leadership Attributes and Authenticity for Secured Change
- Practical Aspects of Transformative Leadership for effective governance and social change
KLI-SC-2102b: INNER STRENGTH LEADERSHIP FOR INTERNAL GROWTH:
- Understand your critical inner strength leadership
- Develop Leadership Adaptability from inner Strength Attribute
- Develop Leadership Courage Attributes for challenging times
- Develop Leadership Initiation Attributes that Lead to Desired Change
- Develop Leadership Listening-Communications for effective Relational Connections
- Develop Leadership Responsibility that maximizes Accountability and Governance
- Develop Leadership Vision, Missions, Values from the inside
KLI-SC-2103b: TRANSFORMATIVE OUTWARD LEADERSHIP
FOR EXTERNAL GROWTH:
This course is a continuation of KLI 2102, with a focus on developing the transformative outward leadership attributes. Self-centeredness, pride, lack of compassion, greed, etc., have been identified as common causes of corporate greed, ineffective governance, deepening divide between the haves and have-nots, gridlock in political systems, and marital conflicts. This course deals with the root of these causes and how a leader can develop effective leadership attributes that inspire others to selflessly follow in the growth plan of the organization. Those who aspire to lead must be inspired to selflessly serve others
- Develop Leadership Adaptability from inner Strength Attribute
- Develop Leadership Courage Attributes for challenging times
- Develop Leadership Initiation Attributes that Lead to Desired Change
- Develop Leadership Responsibility that maximizes
- Accountability and Governance
- Develop Leadership Vision, Missions, Values from the inside
KLI– LSC-2104B: TRANSFORMATIVE PERSONAL LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE
Transformative Personal Leadership training focuses on developing leaders to become forces for change, transformative agents for themselves, their followers, and their organizations. By taking a broad view of the understanding of what a leader can be, and should be, the course details a progression of self-study, and other-centered work and thought, which can be a valuable course of action for leadership within any organization, whether community-based, secular or non-secular, or within the business world. The course presents an integrative approach on the subject of transformative leadership, very different from any others on the subject.
- Understand the Framework of Transformative Personal Leadership
- Develop skills for Personal Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Self-Leadership, Self-branding
- Understand Transformative Leadership Character, Attributes, Commitments
- Know the Drivers of Personal and Outward Leadership from the inside
- Understand the Characteristics of Transformational Leader for Good Governance
KLI-LSC- 2105B: TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE MANAGEMENT:
change, such as implementing a strategic plan on “big ideas,” the change can be seen and experienced all around the system. This course is a continuation of Transformative Personal Leadership (KLI 2104) with a focus on managing organizational change. With our understanding of transformation as a process of a leader creating a desired change in himself and others or a leader leading through Relational Service Leadership process, this course presents some tools that a transformational leader can use to respond to, create or implement desired changes
- Understand strategic change management strategies that transform people, organization and performance
- Understand organizational culture, strategic planning and setting priorities
- Know the strategies to Manage Knowledge, Human Factors , and Performance Evaluation
- Effective Relational Communications and working with the Board
- Know the Essentials of Project Management, Proposals, and Report writing
- Understand Employee Motivation and Empowerment strategies
- Learn the Strategies for Coaching, Mentoring, Teamwork/Team Building
KLI-LSC-2106B: EMPOWERMENT LEADERSHIP:
LEADING AND EXECUTING CHANGE:
Leading the execution of change is more of the role of leadership than management. Even with a good plan and process for change management (discussed in KLI 2105), leading the execution of the plan is a complex multi-faceted endeavor, requiring careful understanding of the management plan, empowering of key people who the leader feels confident in regard to their abilities to handle the assigned roles, and influencing and providing them with specific power to act. This chapter presents the key elements of executing the plan for the desired change.
- Understand the elements of Change Empowerment Leadership, Setting Policies and Priorities
- Develop strategies for Effective Relational (internal and external) Communications
- Know how to create Leadership Vision, Mission, and Influence
- Understand membership Onboarding and how to foster internal and external collaborations
- Understand the Essential Functions of Board of Directors and how to inspire others to follow
KLI-LSC-2107B: COMPASSION LEADERSHIP FOR CAREGIVERS.
with care-giving or ministerial duties. It addresses ways you as a leader-servant can develop a heart of compassion and how you can develop self-awareness of state of sufferings, changes, and challenges in others’ lives. Compassion is presented in the context of your intentional service leadership toward others. It is about taking intentional action to make someone in a broken state of challenges complete or whole.
- Know the Elements and Nature of Wholeness Compassion
- Develop Strategies for Inward and Outward Compassion
- Know the strategies for Wholeness Communications
- Understanding the Pathways to Compassion
- Understanding empathy leadership in a high-performance culture
KLI-MSC-2204: Leanpad-Based Entrepreneurship (LSE).
The course focuses on use of a scientific method approach, such as the Steve Blank and others’ LeanPad Business Model Canvas to discover the value proposition for the business. The nine components of the Customer Discovery process are described. Participants will develop business plan based on Leanpad Business Model Canvas. The course will cover scientific method of system audit at the beginning of a business proposition as part of a baseline evaluation of the current situations and performance measurement system. The audit, through interviews and actual analyses of current culture, may use a scientific method approach, such as the Steve Blank and others.
- Knowledge of the Essentials of Entrepreneurship
- Understanding of how to start, finance, and grow your business
- Understanding the elements of LeanPad Business Model
- Understanding of scalable strategies for great business
- Planning and executing a Customer Discovery process
- Develop the attributes of good value proposition
- Positioning your business for an emerging market and social innovations
KLI-LSC 2108. Executive Transformational Leadership,
Change Process and Accountability
- Understand the several philosophical frameworks in a very practical way when confronted with ethical choices and dilemmas.
- Learn and be able to use apply good practices in managing change process at various life cycle of an organization.
- Explore challenges of accountability to various stakeholders and constituents.
- Learn innovative approaches to address leadership challenges
KLI-LSC 2109: Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship
The intent of this course is to introduce students to the dynamics of the field of Social Entrepreneurship. This course provides the background of how the field has emerged into its current national and global existence. Social Entrepreneurship utilizes business entrepreneurial skills to foster and create significant social benefit or change that has tremendous impact on people and the world. We will clarify the differences between business entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs.
- Make distinctions between social entrepreneurs and business enterprises, nonprofits, philanthropic organizations and social enterprises.
- Learn about and be exposed to the major players in the field of Social Entrepreneurship and hear the stories that are changing people's lives and impacting the world.
- Investigate several global initiatives and discuss their backgrounds
KLI-LSC 2110: Strategic Leadership
Organizational leaders want to have maximum impact using the limited talents, resources, and opportunities they have. The challenge for leaders is to leverage core organizational competencies to gain strategic advantage in an uncertain and ever-changing environment. The principles of strategic leadership involve nontraditional but highly effective approaches to decision making, transparency, and innovation. It also involves unconventional ways of thinking about assessment, hiring, and training, and can be aimed at the potential strategic leaders themselves. This course explores strategic thinking and planning as key leader skills. Students will also learn how organizations can cultivate leadership at multiple levels and become more effective in generating and executing strategy.
- Distribute responsibility to harness the wisdom of those outside the traditional decision-making hierarchy.
- Be honest and open about information sharing to find and create new opportunities for growth.
- Create multiple paths for raising and testing ideas through a variety of channels for innovative thinking.
- Develop principles for unconventional ways of thinking about assessment, hiring, and training.
- Provide access to other strategists to meet with their peers across the organization.
- Develop opportunities for experience-based learning.
- Bring your whole self to work by drawing on everything they have learned in their lives.
- Find time to reflect to help you learn from your mistakes, figure out the value of your aspirations, chance to spot great ideas
- Be humble to recognize leadership development as an ongoing practice
KLI-LSC 2111: Managing Conflicts in Organizations
Building on knowledge and personal, this course considers conflict from an organizational perspective. Questions addressed include: What are the costs to employers of failing to address workplace conflict? What are ethical and legal frameworks within which conflict must be handled? And, what ways have organizations found effective for systematically resolving and preventing conflict? Other advanced topics in conflict resolution may include: violence in the workplace; inter-departmental, intergenerational, and inter-ethnic conflicts; ethical considerations in resolving conflict; and the growing practice of alternate dispute resolution (ADR).
- Understand what conflict and conflict resolution mean
- Understand all six phases of the conflict resolution process
- Understand the five main styles of conflict resolution
- Be able to adapt the process for all types of conflicts
- Be able to break out parts of the process and use those tools to prevent conflict
- Be able to use basic communication tools, such as the agreement frame and open questions
- Be able to use basic anger and stress management techniques
KLI-LSC 2112: Leadership for Innovation
Highly innovative leaders are effective excel at something. What makes them effective is how exactly they do what they do. The ability to innovate and adapt in a world of constant change is key to any nation’s thriving and competitive advantage in the twenty-first century global marketplace. Moreover, innovation is essential in all sectors: private, public, nonprofit, education, and military. Evidence suggests that leadership is a key factor in enabling people to innovate. This course deepens student understanding of how both effective leadership and management are required to conceive and realize innovations of many types, including new products, work processes, technologies, and social relationships.
- Display excellent strategic vision for the future.
- Have a strong customer focus.
- Create a climate of reciprocal trust often requiring some level of risk.
- Display fearless loyalty to doing what’s right for the organization and customer.
- Be persuasive to present ideas with enthusiasm and conviction for the team follow
- Stretch goals to go far beyond just working harder.
- Accept uncertainty, risks and failures,
- Exhibit a high degree of passion for you mission and for innovation,
- Be willing to proactively search for and try external technologies and ideas.
- Be courageous to stop projects and make effective use of company’s resources.
KLI-LSC 2113: Framing Global Issues
The Framing the Global aims develop innovative approaches that will generate new knowledge, explain global phenomena. It is about applying global understanding lived, political, cultural, public, private, and academic contexts. This course is designed to provide a population-based context for the topics to follow, helping students to understand the systems nature of globalization and population dynamics, and the role that organizations and their policies and decisions play in the overall global system. Students will discuss and develop the characteristics of a “global mindset”. They will also examine the global reach of public, private and NGO/non-profit organizations, and their potentially far-reaching positive and negative impacts on human populations across the globe.
- Understand the nature of globalization and population dynamics,
- Understand the role that organizations and their policies and decisions play in the overall global system
- Identify, explore, and integrate new interdisciplinary perspectives for global issues
- Promote and advance research on globalization, global studies, and transnational phenomena
- Generate and apply new integrative approaches to framing Global issues
- Frame global Issues as a leadership issue in an emerging economy
KLI-LSC 2114: Leading Diverse Teams
This course focuses on the understanding the characteristics, structures, culture and dynamics of diverse teams, the challenges involved in leading diverse teams that may be comprised of individuals from different countries and cultures. A major focus will be on the formation and development of teams, and on leadership processes that enable high performing teams. A core feature of this course is experiential learning.
- Strategies for leading geographically-dispersed, ¿virtual¿ teams, including networks and parallel teams,
- Strategies for maximizing the strengths that each team member for high team performance, ,
- Strategies for managing diversity in the teams for maximum engagement
- Role and function of individuals on a team, as well as the contribution teams make in the larger organizational context.
KLI-LSC 2115: Leading Across Culture Communication
This course is designed to develop cross-cultural awareness and multi-cultural competency and cultural context for the global challenges and the nature of globalization. Using theoretical frameworks, students will examine their own cultures, comparing and contrasting them with the cultures from their fellow students in other nations. The importance of effective communication is examined, focusing on the manner in which cultural style may impact the exchange of ideas, perception, and work performance. Emphasis will be on developing intercultural understanding, negotiation, collaboration and problem-solving skills. At macro level, examine how culture drives global mindset and how the global reach of public, private and NGO/non-profit organizations, impacts on human populations across the globe.
- Awareness of one’s own culture, values and mode of culture-based communications
- Learn how compare and contrast the cultures different cultures and how those culture define the behavior of people
- Understand how cultural style may impact the exchange of ideas, perception, and work
- Understand the role that organizations and their policies and decisions play in the overall global system.
- Develop the characteristics of a "global mindset" and it can be driven my culture
- Impact of public, private and NGO/non-profit global research organizations, impacts on human populations across the globe.
KLI-LSC 2117: Leading Change in Global Settings
Change impacts development and global leadership at the individual, organization, nation-state, regional and global levels. This course begins with identifying blockades to change and then moves to understanding the processes, which facilitate or impede change. This course explores how to manage, facilitate and develop positive change strategies in global context. Students will discuss the impact that national culture can have upon an organizations internal culture, values and practices, and will learn about strategies for adjusting their own leadership style and for modifying the operational approach of their own organization when interacting with individuals and units from organizations abroad. Our case examples will come from Asia, The Middle East and North Africa to examine the “Arab Spring”, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa and Central and South America.
- Develop understanding of change processes.
- Understand how change can be channeled toward positive ends rather than result in negative outcomes.
- Understand how to bridge the gap between change management models, methods, tools and techniques
- Be able to apply these to specific examples in development and developed countries
- Be a global leader and able to facilitate and support change which leads to positive outcomes.
- How to identify and manage road blocks for global interaction for change
- How to manage, facilitate and develop positive change strategies in global context.
KLI-LSC 2117: Leading Change in Global Settings
Change impacts development and global leadership at the individual, organization, nation-state, regional and global levels. This course begins with identifying blockades to change and then moves to understanding the processes, which facilitate or impede change. This course explores how to manage, facilitate and develop positive change strategies in global context. Students will discuss the impact that national culture can have upon an organizations internal culture, values and practices, and will learn about strategies for adjusting their own leadership style and for modifying the operational approach of their own organization when interacting with individuals and units from organizations abroad. Our case examples will come from Asia, The Middle East and North Africa to examine the “Arab Spring”, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa and Central and South America.
- Develop understanding of change processes.
- Understand how change can be channeled toward positive ends rather than result in negative outcomes.
- Understand how to bridge the gap between change management models, methods, tools and techniques
- Be able to apply these to specific examples in development and developed countries
- Be a global leader and able to facilitate and support change which leads to positive outcomes.
- How to identify and manage road blocks for global interaction for change
- How to manage, facilitate and develop positive change strategies in global context.
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT COURSES
DURATION (4 DAYS LECTURE, 1 DAY FIELD TOUR)
FEES: USD2.400; LOCATION: USA
KLI-MSC-2401: PUBLIC AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC POLICY MANAGEMENT
This is an intensive one week (32 hours) seminar that examines the economic, political, social, cultural, and legal factors that affect the development and implementation of strategies for decentralizing local government functions. The workshop introduces a set of conceptual, analytical, and technical skills applicable to administrative and policy reform and change management in each of several core areas, including economic, education, technology and political, social, and legal factors that affect the growth of oil and non-oil based economy, and analysis problems of promoting private sector business and government reform to promote the economy.
- Competencies in policy analysis, accountability and politics,
- Pitfalls of corruption and barriers in policy transformation;
- Socio-economic transformation in a new political system.
- Conduct Policy Analysis in the context of political change
- Unlock the Potentials of non-oil business Poverty Reduction:
- Micro business models and Invest. Climate in Capital Market
- Understand how to manage the Challenges for Growth.
- Complete a case study in Nigeria or South Africa
KLI-MSC-2403 Performance and Change Management (PCM)
Performance and Change Management ensures that the employee, manager and the organization are focused on the same priorities. Effective performance management plan improves production and reduces waste in time and resources by helping the employee or manager set and meet their goals and improve the employee-manager relationship. This workshop will address the key strategies for developing performance plan that improves communication and interactions between the managers and employee and closes any gaps that exist in an employee’s skill-set to increase their performance through coaching and mentoring.
- Performance management plan
- Supervising Others for high performance
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Motivate and Inspire others for performance
- Performance evaluation plan
- Learn the three phases of project management
- Learn how to give feedback on performance management
KLI-MSC-2404 Global Leadership Program (GLP)
Global Leadership Program (GLP) is designed to facilitate education and training of corporate personnel to gain global communication competency in the context of leading diverse team for global innovation and integration. The training begins by first measuring participants Global Sensitive Index (GSI) to understand the most likely cultural orientation of the group. A global diversity model of empowering individuals for maximum performance in a global world is presented.
- Understand the dimensions of Global Innovations.
- Understanding and planning for Emerging Market Index
- Behaviour in cross-cultural interaction
- Understand Global competitiveness that gets you ahead.
- Behavioural transformation for Intercultural Competence
- Self-cultural awareness, inter-cultural barriers, social identity
- Develop skills in managing diversity
KLI-WS-2205 Accountability, Trust-Credibility, and Governance
Good relational connections that empower growth in followers and organizations are based on true trust on several different levels. The foundation of such trust is credibility. This workshop sets the context for framing the principle of leadership trust-credibility and how true trust produces confidence, accountability, and readiness to follow or be followed. Transformational leadership trust attribute is framed as the combined acts of positive display of character, competence, credibility, and shared relational connections that produce assured mutual trust-confidence
- Characteristics Leadership Trust Attribute
- Developing the Acts of Trust-Character
- Building the Quality of Trust-Competence
- Ensuring Trust-Integrity in Governance
- Displaying the Quality of Trust-Credibility
- Transformative Principles of Credibility
- Examine challenges of building trust in power-based centralized government
KL1-LSM2201 Organizational Administration & Management (OAM):
The effective administration or management of an office is critical in the operation of any organization, where people, meeting times, deadlines, procedures, issues, reports, etc , have to be coordinated and managed the workshop provides skills in managing these are essential for office staff to ensure that the work environment runs smoothly and communications are improved to help eliminate common errors.
- Basic knowledge of Budgets and Financial Reports
- Communications and basic computer Skills
- Organizational Skills; Communication Strategies
- Elements of organizational management behavior
- Navigation Mapping and Negotiation Skills
- Personal Identity and Branding
KLI LSM 2202 Environmental Impact Assessments
This session will focus on the principles, procedures and methods used for international environmental impact assessments. A detailed background discussion and measurement matrix will be provided for water, soils, air, socio-economic, landscape, visual and quality of life impacts as they relate to the environmental impact assessment process
KLI LSM 2203 Sustainability and Resilience in Infrastructure Design
This workshop will focus the attendees on the basic concepts of sustainability and resilience and how those concepts are incorporated into the engineering decision making process. The goal of this workshop will be to use these concepts of sustainability and resiliency of physical infrastructure across the full spectrum of sustainability to facilitate an improvement in infrastructure performance.
KLI LSM 2204 Business of Social and Environmental Innovation: New Frontiers in Africa
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| KLI-LSC-2101a: INTEGRATIVE TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP: | REGISTER |
| KLI-SC-2102b: INNER STRENGTH LEADERSHIP FOR INTERNAL GROWTH: | REGISTER |
| KLI-SC-2103b: TRANSFORMATIVE OUTWARD LEADERSHIP FOR EXTERNAL GROWTH: | REGISTER |
| KLI- LSC-2104B: TRANSFORMATIVE PERSONAL LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE | REGISTER |
| KLI–LSC–2105B: TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE MANAGEMENT: | REGISTER |
| KLI–LSC–2106B: EMPOWERMENT LEADERSHIP: LEADING AND EXECUTING CHANGE: | REGISTER |
| KLI–LSC–2107B: COMPASSION LEADERSHIP FOR CAREGIVERS. | REGISTER |
| KLI–MSC–2204: Leanpad-Based Entrepreneurship (LSE). | REGISTER |
| KLI–LSC 2108. Executive Transformational Leadership, Change Process and Accountability |
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| KLI–LSC 2109: Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship | REGISTER |
| KLI–LSC 2110: Strategic Leadership | REGISTER |
| KLI–LSC 2111: Managing Conflicts in Organizations | REGISTER |
| KLI–LSC 2112: Leadership for Innovation | REGISTER |
| KLI–LSC 2113: Framing Global Issue | REGISTER |
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KLI–LSC 2114: Leading Diverse Teams Role and function of individuals on a team, as well as the contribution teams make in the larger organizational context. |
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| KLI–LSC 2115: Leading Across Culture Communication | REGISTER |
| KLI–LSC 2117: Leading Change in Global Settings | REGISTER |
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DURATION (4 DAYS LECTURE, 1 DAY FIELD TOUR) FEES: USD2.400; LOCATION: USA |
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| KLI-MSC-2401: PUBLIC AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC POLICY MANAGEMENT | REGISTER |
| KLI-MSC-2403 Performance and Change Management (PCM) | REGISTER |
| KLI-MSC-2404 Global Leadership Program (GLP) | REGISTER |
| KLI-WS-2205 Accountability, Trust-Credibility, and Governance | REGISTER |
| KL1-LSM2201 Organizational Administration & Management (OAM):: | REGISTER |
| KLI–LSC–2106B: EMPOWERMENT LEADERSHIP: LEADING AND EXECUTING CHANGE: | REGISTER |
| KLI LSM 2012 environmental Impact Assessments | REGISTER |
| KLI LSM 2203. Sustainability and Resilience in Infrastructure Design | REGISTER |
| KLI LSM 2204 Business of Social and Environmental Innovation: New Frontiers in Africa | REGISTER |