Analytical Center for Leadership Research and Development offers a one year long program in leadership training:
- A series of 12 formal seminars offered both in conventional live settings (in auditorium) and online presentations by highly qualified speakers from the United States.
- Engagement in online discussions and learning activities in the online learning management system called Moodle
- Formal mentoring / support sessions during the implementation of the capstone project
- The final capstone project will include the creation of organizational change and development plans to improve performance and enhance service to the community at large
This training program will require six months, plus an additional six months for creating and implementing the capstone project.
Formal training will be conducted in two modalities: live in auditorium/classroom and online with both synchronous and asynchronous virtual sessions. The training will begin with a live, face-to-face component in order to foster comradery and a community of like-minded individuals.
Live seminars will be conducted once a month for a period of six months (six meetings total), with each seminar duration of approximately four hours. Live seminars will be taught by a combination of onsite and virtual instructors. The live classroom sessions will be supplemented by online virtual seminars. Therefore, live and online seminars will alternate every two weeks.
The seminar curriculum and key topics to be covered in this series include (odd numbers are for live sessions while even numbers are for online sessions):
- Why leadership? Why standing out is important: Cases in history
- Leadership vs management: some commonalities and important differences
- Personal leadership: how to lead oneself, emotional intelligence
- Critical thinking: the role of worldview, intellectual virtues, and wisdom in leading change processes.
- Creating and leading a team: what contributes to dysfunctions of a team, and what makes it successful.
- Followership: an important component of leadership. How to be a good follower and how to encourage good followership when you are a leader. Toxic leadership: what it is, why we may follow toxic leaders, and how to engage them to change the situation for the better.
- Designing and implementing change in organizations: Obstacles to be aware of and ways to overcome them. Leading change.
- Understanding how personality influences leader performance (MBTI assessment): a tool to understand differences and commonalities among organizational members. Learning to create synergy respecting differences and capitalizing on them.
- Cross-cultural leadership: leading in a multicultural VUCA world (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity)
- Ethical dimension of leadership: Developing solutions to real world ethical dilemmas based on ethical theories and practices.
- Technology and the future of leadership
- Capstone project
Live seminars will include role playing, debates, Socratic learning activities, and brainstorming. Online presentations will include practical skills and tools that leaders may use in their daily praxis. Online components also include engaging in forum discussions and collaborating on case studies in the learning management system.
The Capstone project provides participants the opportunity to apply what they have learned to the context of their work settings. During this stage of the program, the participants will receive formal mentoring support from volunteer ACLRD trainers. Most ACLRD trainers will hold graduate degrees in leadership and highly relevant work experience.