Leadership Academy Programme (LAP)
Pre-training survey
Syllabus
Guide for trainers
1.1 STAGE 1 – LEADERSHIP FOR ORGANISATIONS
1.1.1 Module 1 – Good Local Governance
- To gather an in-depth understanding of the 12 Principles for Good Democratic Governance and their relevance for their organisations’ activity.
- To gather an understanding of the competences needed for local government leadership.
1.1.2 Module 2 – Understanding Leadership
- To acquire knowledge on ’leadership’ – as it is envisaged within the LAP.
- To understand the added value of a situational approach to leadership (there is no “one size fits all” solution).
1.1.3 Module 3 – Leadership Benchmark
- To train participants in a benchmarking tool that can be used to raise the standards of performance of a municipality.
1.1.4 Module 4 – Leadership Values
- To identify the role of values in shaping attitudes and behaviours.
- To identify the individual values stimulating leadership and, in turn, good governance.
1.1.5 Module 5 - Self-Awareness and Group Empowerment
- To learn the meaning of self-mastery and that the journey towards it never ends.
- To learn the meaning and implications of “natural” leadership preferences.
1.1.6 Module 6 – Leadership Mind-Sets for Team Working
- To understand the kind of mind-set that is better aligned with good performance within a performance-oriented organisation.
- To understand the importance of emotional intelligence (EQ) and its essential role in effective team working.
- To recognise the importance of facilitation for effective team working, that in turn leads to improve public services performance.
1.1.7 Module 7 - Identifying Personal Leadership Styles
- To develop an accurate understanding of different leadership styles.
- To match own strengths and weaknesses to choose the appropriate leadership styles for different situations.
1.1.8 Module 8 – Group Communication Skills
- To understand the drivers of effective communication.
- To experience the importance of the group as a ‘multiplier’ of ideas and prospectives.
- To learn and experience tools for different group interaction methods.
1.1.9 Module 9 - Developing Leadership in a Landscapes Perspective
- To appreciate the long-term process of developing leadership at the organisational level;
- To apply the leadership landscape approach (i.e. integrative thinking approach) for local governance to ‘problem-solving’ at the organisational level;
- To understand the importance of continuous self-assessment for sustainable organisational leadership.
1.2 STAGE 2 – LEADERSHIP FOR STRATEGY
1.2.1 Module 10 – Organisation Culture
- To learn how good leadership can change the organisation culture to deliver better performance.
1.2.2 Module 11 – Scenario Planning
- To introduce the method for developing dynamic scenarios and initiating inclusive strategic dialogues for strategic planning and problem solving.
1.2.3 Module 12 – Strategic Management
- To present the 3 core domains of strategic management from a leadership perspectives and suggest instruments for establishing high level performance.
1.2.4 Module 13 – Learning Organisation
- To present the concept of a ‘learning organisation’ and give ideas for participants how to encourage learning in their own organizations.
1.2.5 Module 14 – Complexity of Organisational Change
- To understand that local government needs to be responsive and dynamic to change and issues need to be tackled in an integrated manner.
1.2.6 Module 15 – Organisational Communication
- To learn tools to develop the highest standards of internal and external communications.
1.2.7 Module 16 – Effective Staff Management
- To support leaders to apply leadership to staff management.
1.2.8 Module 17 – Expectation Management
- To reveal conflicting points in mutual expectations between staff and leaders and formulate a more coherent set of expectations.
1.2.9 Module 18 – Performance Management
- To deepen the understanding of performance management and how it can be used to more effectively deliver outcomes by the organisation.
1.3 STAGE 3 – LEADERSHIP FOR CAPACITY BUILDING
1.3.1 Module 19 – Building Ethics and Integrity
- To strengthen participants’ capacity to ethical reflection and reasoning and make them reflect on the integrity of their organization.
1.3.2 Module 19 – Ethics Management (Advanced)
- To strengthen participants capacity to ethical reflection and reasoning and offer methods to develop ethics and integrity of their organization.
1.3.3 Module 20 – Civil Participation in Decision Making
- To increase awareness on the role of civil participation for efficient and effective local governance.
- To improve understanding of the requirements, benefits and relations intrinsic to civil participation.
- To acquire knowledge on different civil participation approaches and to choose the best for a given situation.
1.3.4 Module 21 – Inter-Municipal Cooperation (IMC)
- To understand the relevance of Inter-Municipal Cooperation for a better service delivery and thus for the overall delivery of good local governance. (General)
- To gain an-in-depth understanding of the key-elements, mechanisms, success factors at the core of IMC. (Advanced)
1.3.5 Module 22 – Cross Border Cooperation (CBC)
- To understand the relevance of Cross-Border Cooperation for a better service delivery, that ensures the improvement of the overall delivery of good local governance in a border area.
- To gain an-in-depth understanding of the key-elements, mechanisms, success factors at the basis of CBC.
1.3.6 Module 23 – City-to-City Cooperation (C2C)
- To understand the relevance of City-to-City Cooperation to promote local development opportunities, in turn ensuring the improvement of the overall delivery of good local governance.
- To gain an-in-depth understanding of the key-elements, mechanisms, success factors of C2C.
1.3.7 Module 24 – Equal Opportunities and Gender Balance
- To know the tools and legal frameworks available for ensuring equal access to opportunities to all.
- To become aware of gender perspectives as key factors determining eventually good governance at local level.
- To understand the role of leadership in ensuring equal opportunities and representativeness to all, at local level.
1.3.8 Module 25 - Accountability
- To strengthen participants’ understanding of and commitment to accountable local leadership.
- To discuss some of the usual misconceptions about leader’s accountability.
1.3.9 Module 26 - COE Tools for good democratic governance
- To enable understanding and practical use of the Council of Europe toolkits for Good Democratic Governance
- To identify priority tools and to learn how to engage in cooperation with the Council of Europe
1.3.10 Module 27 - Storytelling for Leaders
- To understand the role of narratives in leadership communication and the purposes of storytelling
- To learn to construct effective narratives for specific leadership challenges
1.3.11 Module 28 - Leadership in time of crisis
- To prepare local authorities to effectively respond to crisis situations
- To develop skills for communicating and cooperating with stakeholders in crisis situations