Intensive Training Seminar. Trainees attend a five-day lecture program conducted by local and international experts. The lectures range from theoretical concepts to functional skills, exercises and case studies, whereby the participants are continuously encouraged to apply what they have learned to the institutions with which they are involved. The intensive seminar is followed by two workshop days, concentrating on skill enhancement. The major goal is to link and apply the skills learned to actual issues of concern in the participants working environment.
Participants prepare for the workshops by completing practice-oriented writing assignments.
On the organizational level, the employees must be convinced that what they are doing is worthwhile and that the overall goal is valid in order for there to be motivation, devotion and sustainability. The management of others requires many different skills on which personal success and that of the organization depend to a large extent. Only effective leaders can build positive, committed, goal-oriented employees, able to bring tasks into focus and handle stressful and changing environments. The main objective of the training course on Leadership Skills has been to impart strong functional skills in supervision and to address the behavioral side of management in order to build leadership capacity and contribute to a more effective organizational management. The publication presented here contains Mr. Roberts instructions as well as the training materials used by him and is hoped to become a useful handbook.