2012 LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Overview

This course empowers participants to become effective leaders and managers in the international development context. International development work involves multi-stakeholder cooperation and delivery in challenging environments. We designed this course to target governments from developing countries as well as practitioners in the international development community. The course tailors leadership and management training as it pertains to the public service sector and public sector reform. The skill set that needs to be developed includes leadership and decision-making, organizational management, human capital development, accountability and reporting standards, negotiations, navigating through political waters, and effective communications.

Course Outline

Leading Teams and Organizations

• Developing personal leadership competencies: self awareness; courage; vision; strategic and analytical thinking; learning agility; decisiveness; energy; results driven; credibility; influence; communication
• Planning for and achieving team and organizational results
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Recognizing human potential and delegating appropriately
• Building diversity
• Fostering innovation
• Handling risks, changes, complications and conflicts
• Coaching and appraisal
• Commitment to continuous improvement
• Cultural adaptation

General team and organizational management skills: change management; communication management; conflict management; constraint management; crisis management; decision management; financial management; human resource management; information management; operations management; perception management; performance management; process management; project and program management; quality management; resource management; risk management; skills management; strategic management

Leadership and Management in the International Development Work

• Meeting donor and other key stakeholder requirements
• Building strong relationships with strategic partners
• Executing in challenging political environments
• Working with limited resources
• Institutionalizing open and participatory communication channels
• Negotiations

Course Advisors

Kim Phan is the Executive Director of the International Law Institute; she oversees the operations and management of the Institute as well as its practice areas. In addition to being Executive Director, Ms. Phan is also the Director of Business Development, in that capacity she serves as the Project Director for all of ILI's projects with various donors, countries, and partners. Prior to joining ILI, she worked under the U.S. Mission at the Asian Development Bank as the U.S. – Asia Environmental Partnership representative. Ms. Phan has a Masters in the Study of Law from Northwestern University School of Law and a B.A. from Allegheny College with a focus in Nuclear Warfare Strategy.

Gerhard Botha is the Director of Programs at the International Law Institute and has more than 25 years of legal and international development experience. Prior to ILI, he was at the World Bank, serving for eight years as a senior sector specialist in legal and judicial reform and private and financial sector development, in several countries. Mr. Botha has also worked in labor/employment law and relations, conflict resolution and negotiations, in private practice and within a large corporate environment in Southern Africa. Mr. Botha holds B.A. and LL.B degrees from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, an LL.M degree in labor law from the University of South Africa and an LL.M focusing on labor/ employment law and alternate dispute resolution, from The George Washington University Law School in Washington DC.