Course description
The municipal management and leadership program by Rcademy trains professionals who will be municipal leaders by increasing their skills and knowledge to lead teams, organizations, and people of different levels. Participants will be trained to focus on important and strategic plans to achieve set goals in municipalities and manage changes effectively. This course will also train them on handling expectations from stakeholders and ensuring effective leadership.
Why study municipal management and leadership programs?
The advantages of pursuing this course include gaining valuable hands-on experience under the supervision of specialists in the industry who give the necessary information. You will also develop an understanding of best and standard practices and how to successfully lead and enhance team vision in the public sector.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
The Certificate in Municipal Management and Leadership Program Training Course by Rcademy is ideal for:
- All professionals at different levels in the municipality
- Chief administration officer
- Department managers
- Chief financial officers
- Directors
- Police chiefs
- Chief librarians
- Public health managers
- Public funds manager
- City manager
- Municipal executive council members
- Commissioners
- Professionals interested in further developing effective management and leadership skills in the municipal environment
- Public administration officers
- Mid-level manager who leads teams, departments, and groups
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The Certificate in Municipal Management and Leadership Program Training Course by Rcademy aims to enable participants to:
- Understand the use of various tools and models to understand certain behavioral patterns in people, use the tools to effectively coach residents, and explore the impact of emotional intelligence and communication on others
- Analyse effective leadership styles against the requirements of their roles
- Explore the existing leadership challenges in the municipal government and apply leadership theory to solving real-world issues
- Understand how to manage change and deliver results in an increasingly challenging manner
- Explore the ethical behavior municipal leaders should demonstrate to maintain their integrity in the public eyes
- Effectively assess their communication strengths and opportunities
- Understand the emerging issues in administration to ensure service delivery
- Understand their leadership capabilities with proven methods of assessing their strengths
- Understand pathways to tackle shared strategic challenges
Training Course Content
Module 1: Leading self and others
- Understanding ourselves
- Building on our strengths
- Blind spots to improve
- Becoming an effective leader
- Analyzing your growth and opportunities
- Reducing your weakness
- Critical thinking
Module 2: Overcoming challenges through leadership and Strategy
- Applying what we learn
- Emotional intelligence and how to use it effectively
- Building a network of support when you need it
- Actionable strategic planning
- Understanding why communities fail
- Becoming authentic leaders and managers
- Exploring effective leadership skills
- Becoming emotionally effective leaders
- Beliefs and their effect on your day-to-day performance as a leader
- Overcoming challenges
- Strategies for self-improvement
Module 3: Sustaining your leadership development and Building an engaging workplace
- Organizational team culture
- Techniques, tools, and activities to use with teams
- Maintaining a healthy workplace
- Creating a high-performance working environment
- What it takes to build a good team
- Developing accountability
- Creating a Plan for sustainable development
- Continuation of leadership learning
- Learning Deployment
Module 4: Finance for municipal managers
- Introduction to finance and accounting
- Budgets concerning expenditure
- The accounting equation
- Accounting and finance in the public sector
- The accounting cycle and basic accounting
- Concepts and terminology
- Financial statements and their analysis
- Municipal financial reporting
- Project financing
- Corporate governance
- Municipal supply chain management
- Management of assets and liabilities
Module 5: Change management
- Change management theory
- Championing change
- Practical application of change management
- Change management simulation
- Resources used in change management
Module 6: Strategic thinking skills
- How to employ different types of thinking skills in your role
- Organization improvement through thinking
- Critical thinking
- Encouraging colleagues to think
- Improving the quality of service delivery
- Guiding innovation
- Municipal leader’s thinking strategies
Module 7: Leading the municipality
- Committing to your leadership abilities
- Leading self and others
- Negotiating and engaging the stakeholders
- Leading and managing the municipalities effectively
Module 8: Essential Skills for municipal managers
- Using scientific and innovative techniques
- Redefining and analyzing leadership skills
- Techniques of leadership engagement
- Corporate culture based on leadership approaches
- Team management
- Coaching and mentoring for peak performance
- Teaching tools
- Practicing coaching using various techniques
- Understanding the principles undergirding strategic thought
- Acquiring tools for linking strategic realities with implementation
- The art of leadership agility and strategic thinking
Module 9: Advanced political acuity
- Strategies and techniques for raising political acuity
- Networking and creation of strategic networks and alliances
- The formal and informed decision-making process
- Case studies in applied political Acuity
- Important players and processes in the system of government
- The role of influence in getting things done
- How and when to use various ways of negotiating
- Understanding the contribution organization, local managers, senior managers, and staff make to employee engagement
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