
Explore how political leaders wield values, resources, and communication to guide groups through crises, balancing inner traits, context, and emotional intelligence to shape policy and public support.
Explore political leadership characteristics through theories of technical and adaptive leadership, managerial and emergent styles, and Burns’ transformational versus transactional leadership, highlighting context, capability dimensions, and stakeholder interactions.
Explore the skills and competencies of political leadership, including social astuteness, interpersonal influence, networking, authenticity, and contextual intelligence, and how leaders broker consensus amid challenges.
Political leadership often faces negative feedback based on outcomes rather than competencies, prompting defensiveness; experienced leaders use feedback to improve amid politics' backstage, seen as negative yet potentially ethical.
Use the workbook to implement course learnings through exercises, case studies, and real-life situations, and confirm your understanding of what you have read and listened to.
Leadership is the fact or the action of working with a group of individuals, organizations, or communities. A leader must have values and economic and/or political and/or other resources motives to accomplish a certain mission. Also, to work in public, competition and conflict are always present to succeed independently or mutually if the work is being done with other leaders and/or followers (Burns, 1978).
If you aim to become a great leader or effectively coach a political leader to bring out the best in him/her, this program is yours!
The Political Leadership program consists of a theoretical part which includes an introduction to leadership, in general, and political leadership in particular, in addition to political leadership characteristics, roles, qualities, style, competencies, etc. This part, in addition to the case studies, will help the leader develop his/her leadership style and skills or guide his/her coach to aid the politician master professionally the critical areas in his/her journey.
In the program’s second part, you will have different practical tools that will assist the leader or the coach in asking the right questions to discover one’s leadership style, define his/her vision, determine his/her strengths and improve weaknesses.
It is recommended that you benefit from this valuable program as this will be your essential guide to becoming an influential, effective leader.