Leading, Innovating & Negotiating: Critical Strategies for Public Sector Executives
A Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Program
31 May 2010 - 3 June 2010
Athens, Greece
Leading, Innovating and Negotiating: Critical Strategies for Public Sector Executives offers participants analytical and problem-solving tools critical for advancing individual and organizational goals that are vital for generating, managing and leveraging innovation in an era of growing global complexity. This program is designed for senior professionals in the public and nonprofit sectors in Southeast and East-Central Europe. Applicants should have a minimum of 10 years of professional experience and a demonstrated commitment to public service.
Instruction will focus on three main areas, led by Harvard faculty who are experts in these fields:
Negotiation and conflict management, Professor Brian Mandell: This module provides a toolkit of strategic and analytical skills and conceptual frameworks that enable participants to accurately diagnose, shape and direct negotiations within and across organizations and sectors; design consensus-building procedures and build winning coalitions; examine cross-cultural differences and ethical dilemmas; sustain cooperative relationships; and manage complex, competitive environments.
Innovation, Professor Elaine Kamarck: This module aims to address the growing inability of governments and organizations to deal with public problems through old methods and traditional practices. It aims to assist participants in devising novel institutional arrangements to meet contemporary challenges, and teaches new managerial practices that enable participants to implement and sustain such new arrangements. It also offers insights on how to build comprehensive plans for executing change and seeks to provide participants with knowledge and strategies on how to influence an organization' s culture and alter the ways organizations and institutions respond to the challenge of innovation.
Leadership, Professor Roderick Kramer: This component focuses on effective leadership practices for managing group-level problem solving in organizations. Many important decisions are made in group contexts, and finding the right solution to the right problem is a key part of effective group decision making. Accordingly, this module presents a framework for thinking about how leaders can organize and manage problem solving teams. We also discuss ways in which leaders build trust and communicate effectively within the context of small groups.
Application Deadline: 26 April 2010
Program Fee: $5,250 (full tuition scholarships available for most accepted applicants)
Further Information and Application: http://ksgexecprogram.harvard.edu/Programs/cge/overview.aspx
The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
tel: +1 (617) 496-0175 n fax: +1 (617) 496-5700
kokkalis_program@hks.harvard.edu
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis
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