Background For public managers nowadays the challenge is in finding the right balance between having the expertise on the substance of the area they are working in and being able to lead their staff towards the objectives of their department. This often requires a wide repertoire of skills like defining a strategy, setting clear objectives, negotiating between different interests, coaching, supporting, motivating, delegation of tasks, handling conflicts dealing with different employees of different age and levels of experience within the administration. In a 7-day training programme divided over two modules of respectively 3 days (from 6-9 April) and 4 days (from 18-21 May), the emphasis will be mainly given to the development and implementation of strategies and managing people. Overall Aim This training programme should provide the participants with knowledge and skills of modern strategic management techniques and methods used in public administration as well as increase the effectiveness by building up reference frames about management in general and specific knowledge and skills for leadership and people management. Objectives In this training programme the main objectives are: · To strengthen strategic planning and implementation; · To introduce result oriented management and enlarge the ability to set goals and objectives; · To present effective methods and techniques of setting strategic goals, preparing strategic documents and implementing strategies in order apply this in the respective departments; · To Manage roles and priorities; · To manage the organisation culture; · To train in different styles of situational leadership: directing, coaching, supporting, delegating; · How to motivate people taking into account the fundamental needs of autonomy ‘agency), competence (growth) and communion (affiliation). Method The programme will be implemented through a variety of training methods (presentation, group work, discussions etc). Use will be made from benchmarking, best practices as well as using the own experiences as an important ankle to learn. Registering for this training programme means participating in both modules. | 