Public Leadership Executive Program

The complexity of public challenges is driving the need for public international leaders to gain a greater insight into their own leadership styles and habits, and how these shape decisions and outcomes. In this module, participants will learn to:

• Understand their leadership style and build consistency in their positive behaviors.
• Adopt tools to envision, empower, and lead a group towards a desired outcome.
• Focus on new mindsets and creating new habits.

Public sector leaders have limited capacity to build their teams and provide them with performance incentives. Moreover, group dynamics are highly affected by intercultural and intergenerational differences. Participants will learn tools to:

• Build a psychologically safe environment and create a values-based culture within their workforce.
• Understand their team members’ motivations and competencies and provide constructive feedback.
• Trust and empower their teams through different leadership styles.

Public leaders play a crucial role in delivering public value, by translating a political vision into policies and programs that enhance citizens' quality of life. Yet, internal dynamics and bureaucratic processes may divert senior management from their mission or hinder collaborative efforts within the organization. This module is designed for leaders who want to:

• Foster a working culture dedicated to the delivery of public value at all times.
• Nurture strategic thinking, choose the right priorities and focus on them.
• Implement strategies to improve cross-sector collaboration and coordination.

Public leaders often have to negotiate and achieve consensus with multiple stakeholders with competing interests. Networked collaboration becomes essential, in particular developing robust diplomatic, negotiation and communication skills while keeping public integrity at the core.  This module will allow participants to:

• Develop political sensibility and intercultural dialogue skills to improve communication and foster relationships with tact across various cultures and customs.
• Adopt negotiation strategies to build consensus and negotiate with diverse stakeholders, especially in international contexts.