COURSE DURATION 5 DAYS
Date: 1st to 5th June 2026
Effective public sector leadership requires a blend of traditional management and public-specific skills, focusing on strategic vision, transparency, accountability, and ethical conduct, alongside strong communication, relationship-building, and execution (follow-through) to implement policies, manage diverse teams, and drive public value within legal and resource constraints.
Objectives:
The main objectives of this training course are to enable participants to be able to:
- Learn how to improve their confidence and skills
- Devoted to planning, attaining efficiencies, and effectiveness as direct results of understanding better managerial methods
- Have improved motivation
- Understand the key elements of authentic leadership
- Learn how to be more productive in leading others
- Bring improved methods, skills, and techniques to their workplace
- Develop endurance when dealing with difficult humans and employees
- Make an action plan
- Gain varied leadership and managerial skills
- Understand how to use personal development
- Learn the differences between being a leader and a manager
- Understand the benefits of personal interactions
Who should Attend?
This ALARDI AFRICA Leadership Skills in Public Organisations training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals in public organizations and private entities of all diversified lines of business who occupy a leadership or management role, including:
- High Potential and Future Leaders
- Heads of Commissions
- Undersecretaries & Directors
- Existing Leaders and Managers seeking to rejuvenate their practice
- Management Professional seeking Leadership Roles
- Team Leaders – New or Experienced
- Supervisors
- Leaders and Managers implementing change programmes
- Technical Professionals Undertaking Managerial / Leadership Positions
Training Methodology
This Leadership Skills in Public Organisations training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes a combination of presentations, group exercises, videos and class discussions in order to examine in an in-depth fashion all the elements of the course content. The emphasis will be on creating an in-depth appreciation and understanding of the art of leadership. Activities, hands-on interactions, group participation, role-playing and case studies are used to highlight concepts taught and allow participants to practice the material.
Course Outline
Day One: Leadership in a Dynamic Global Environment
- Perceptions and definitions of the global environment
- Positioning yourself as an effective leader
- How to recognize and overcome challenges
- Understanding the organisational barriers for growth and sustainable development
- Understanding and implementing the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) model
- Leadership in strategic global value chains
Day Two: Public Leadership and Management in an Age of Uncertainty
- The leadership and management role across the public and the private sector
- How to build an understanding of the new normal
- Adaptive leadership strategies
- “Managerial leadership”, embracing wider responsibilities for ethics and performance
- Changing paradigms and perceptions of the Global South, North, and the Far East
- Transformational leadership for sustainable development
Day Three: Managerial Leadership for High-Performing Teams
- Building team culture across knowledge and culture boundaries
- Overcoming dysfunctions in teams: raising performance through trust
- Self-assessment and action in team development
- Understanding the team’s contribution to the organisation’s growth
- Creative thinking and harnessing the collective wisdom of the team
- Creating alignment and functional commitment through empowerment
- Communication and coaching for personal growth and team development
Day Four: Communicating, Decision Making and Problem Solving in Public Sector Organisations
- Managing crisis: problem solving, resilience, prioritization, delegation and empowerment
- Brainstorming and thinking out-of-the box
- Leadership, innovation and decision making: taking responsibilities
- Harnessing digital transformations and business model regeneration
- Communicating with Intention – Understanding the communication process
- Building rapport by using active listening techniques
Day Five: Leadership for Organisational Excellence
- Organisational excellence: managing by values and cultures
- Mapping and developing your leadership style
- Implementing a culture of hard work with ethics and integrity
- How to combine global sustainability goals with organisational excellence
- Encouraging consistency and commitment
- Building trust and relying on others
- Action planning and leading for sustained improvement
- Training Evaluation and Course Closure
Venue:
Zambia-Lusaka – Cost USD 2200
Date: 1st to 5th June 2026
