Leadership Development
Leadership Development
We offer three packages targeting your Leadership Development needs. These packages focus on a diverse skill set, all deeply rooted in concepts of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and other principles of organizational psychology. The first three leadership programs apply for organizations in various sectors including public, private, and nonprofit organizations. The fourth package is tailored for academic and research institutions, a pioneering program based on the experiences and case study research by our founding team.
Needs Assessment: we rely on a variety of data collection tools to help us collect data from different organizational stakeholders to identify the specific gap in your organization that the program needs to target.
Program Design: we analyze all the data collected from your organization and create modules that tackle the gap identified.
Program Delivery: The modules are usually delivered once a month over two days, allowing time for busy managers to take time away from work to engage in the learning. Some of the material is delivered face to face and the rest online
Program objective: By the end of the program, participants will have the capacity to champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and promote social sustainability, fostering a more inclusive and equitable environment in their organizations and communities.
Face to face modules: Participants meet with expert facilitators once a month for 2 half days.
Online modules: Participants have material to cover between visits, all available online and involves a variety of materials such as videos, animated lectures, case study, and executive articles.
Leadership Essentials: Building the Foundations
Effective Communication for Leadership Success
Responsible Leadership in a Changing World
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Leadership and Team Dynamics: Unlocking Peak Performance
Leadership in Crisis Management and Resilience
Women in Leadership: Navigating the Upward Trajectory
The fourth Leadership Development offering is specifically designed for academic and research institutions:
REsearch-MAP (REMAP) Program is a capacity building program for researchers (in the fields of management, organization studies, and social sciences) eager to widen their scholarly impact beyond the confines of the traditional academe. REMAP aims to empower scholars and researchers with the tools and strategies needed to connect their work to broader social, economic, and political structures. REMAP is aimed at a generation of scholars who want to rethink, revamp, and remap the way they perceive research ideas and academic projects. We empower and equip academicians and researchers to identify ways of complementing traditional publications with more outputs to widen your societal impact by Rethinking, Revamping, and Remapping their research.
Joining remap as a participant and a member in the network allows you to:
- Define and articulate ‘societal impact’ through your research trajectory;
- Develop a strategy for engaging with stakeholders and issues outside of the academe;
- Conduct an analysis of targeted audiences and groups related to your research;
- Connect with like-minded scholars with an interest for societal impact;
- Develop creative communication and outreach tools for key stakeholders;
- Identify a community of practice that can inform and be influenced by your research expertise;
- Plan a sustainable trajectory of research projects embedded in a wider societal context.
Following the foundational introductory module in Academic Societal Impact, Universities and research institutions can choose from a menu of courses designed around three themes as per the figure below, and the description that follows.
FOUNDATIONAL COURSE – Strategizing for Academic Societal Impact: This is a 2-day course that introduces researchers to the multiple ways in which research can have a wider societal impact. During the course, participants will be introduced to several case studies showcasing academic projects with societal impact. The lead trainers and academic experts facilitating this course will draw on their own experiences in defining and implementing projects geared towards societal impact across the MENA, specifically in areas around gender inclusion, healthcare management, youth civic engagement, and education transformation. These areas of expertise were guided and informed by strategies of co-creation with multiple stakeholders, applying evidence-based approaches to decision-making, and impacting communities and business in contexts of uncertainty, disasters, and limited resources.
Topics include:
- Defining societal impact: a synthesis of literature and evidence of a long tradition in academia of using knowledge to inform and mobilize for inclusive policies and solidarity, across borders.
- Mapping the conceptual terrain: a presentation of various contexts around academia, scholarship, impact, activism, and social change, with a focus on experiences from across MENA.
- Rethinking research within a strategy of social impact: mapping potential stakeholders, identifying shared problems, and revamping research questions and methodologies towards more social embeddedness.
One (or more) of the themed Module bundles
designed to provide in depth knowledge and skills in communicating research to wider audiences including: writing practitioner articles and op-eds, attracting media attention, and creating video abstracts. This bundle is targeted towards researchers who may already have academic research content produced and published; and who want to communicate their research to a wider audience and with social impact as an end goal. If you feel that your article or book has implications, recommendations, and relevance to a targeted audience, this bundle will help you develop communication skills and strategies to communicate your research beyond the confines of academic outlets.
Module 1.1 – Writing practitioner papers.
Module 1.2 – Creating video abstracts.
Module 1.3 – Writing and teaching case studies.
Module 1.4 – Writing op-eds
Module 1.5 – Attracting attention from the media
This bundle comprises of three 2-day modules designed to provide in-depth knowledge and skills in translating research to programs and initiatives that make a difference in society. These include creating training programs from research and connecting to and mobilizing stakeholders around your topic through partnerships and alliances. In most cases, PhD training and tenure track careers do not prepare us to initiate work outside of the context of the university. If you have conducted research and feel that your findings can be applicable outside your campus walls, this bundle will help you innovate and translate your research to strategic actions and projects.
Module 2.1 – Developing capacity building programs.
Module 2.2 – Mobilizing actors for advocacy and solidarity
Module 2.3 – Designing community engagement programs
Module 2.4 – Developing policy briefs and policy recommendations
Module 2.5 – Writing grants for broader social impact
This bundle comprises of three 2-day modules designed to provide in-depth knowledge and skills in participatory methods, to drive a research agenda that is more strategically contextual embedded and impactful. This bundle is suitable for researchers at the early thinking stage of their careers or of a new research topic. Rather than considering impact as an afterthought, this bundle helps researchers identify problems collectively and co-create solutions as a deliberative strategy. If you feel angered by a social phenomenon or inspired to address a global problem, this bundle will help you embed your research in society and bring society into your research journey.
Module 3.1 – Designing participatory research methods
Module 3.2 – Building coalitions and breaking silos
Module 3.3 – Developing a long-term strategy for social impact
Module 3.4 – Skills to validate research results with a non-academic audience
Module 3.5 – Institutionalizing social impact, options and dilemmas