ADVANCED LEVEL
The Art of Leadership
Broaden your horizons
Course Description
The Art of Leadership is a social process that includes the ability to inspire, motivate, and influence others. It includes the ability to solve problems, be innovative, and above all be able to guide a group of people into achieving goals.
Whether you are the leader of an organization, a department or team, or just yourself, having the skills to motivate, inspire, and move people to action is essential. While using tools provided in this course, you will explore what motivates others, assess your leadership style and examine communications within your team. With the completion of an action plan at the end of each module, you will be able to apply what you have learned to your own organization.
This course is divided into 3 different compulsory modules. They will take you step by step from having a better understanding of yourself, to be more self-aware, your team to developing and building on your leadership style, building trust and respect.
Each module will have 8 online sessions spread over 4 days in a row. Each day includes two sessions. One session is of 1 hour and 30 minutes duration.
For whom:
Leaders of Civil Society Organizations
Senior and Team Leaders of Civil Society Organizations
Course fees*:
EUR 950/ person (Plus VAT)
*Special Discounts for groups and CSA alumni
15% group discount: 4 or more registrations from one organization
10% individual discount: For CSA alumni
Benefits
What you'll learn
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To identify and improve your leadership style
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How to connect with people effectively
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Develop the ability to give constructive feedback and feed-forward and critically see the feedback of your team
Session Plan
Module 1: Self-leadership
Session 1: Welcome and Introduction
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Welcome and warm-up- get to know each other -
Introduction to the course -
Expectations -
The navigation tool for the workshop -
As a Leader you only have one tool- Yourself!
Session 2: Self-Awareness
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Awareness about yourself -
Personality Styles
Session 3: Personal Values and Vision
- Personal Values and Vision and why it is important to know about it
Session 4: Civil Society I
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Definition of Civil Society -
History of Civil Society -
Why Civil Society is important? The 6 reasons -
Roles and Interrelations -
Homework
Session 5: Self-Organization I
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Session 6: Self-Organization II
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Work-Life Balance -
Personal Flow and Resilience -
Emotional Intelligence
Session 7: Personal Change
- Insights and tools on how to change habits, attitudes and behavior
Session 8: Performance Management: Group Coaching
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Group Coaching & Ground Rules of Group Coaching -
Establishing Coaching Groups -
Assignments and Homework for Module 2 -
Evaluation Module 1 & Preview of Module 2 -
Farewell and Closure
Module 2: Team Leadership
Session 1: Welcome - Creative Blend between Leadership and Management
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Welcome, Objectives, Overview of Module -
Bringing the group together -
Expectations -
Differences between Leadership and Management -
Self-assessment
Session 2: Ingredients of Great Leaders
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How to foster Contribution, Engagement, Trust, Respect and Empathy in teams -
Emotional Intelligence
Session 3: Rights Based Approach
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Development Paradigms -
Storytelling: Community development versus rights-based approach -
State roles: Respect, protect, fulfil
Session 4: Phases of Group Development and Daily Operational Management
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Phases of Group Development -
Day-to-day tasks of a Team Leader
Session 5: Decision-Making Process in Teams
- Decision-making process in teams
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Meetings
Session 6: The Social Art of Leading People
- 4 Styles of Managing People
Session 7: Values
- Understanding values
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Your personal values
Session 8: Evaluation and Way Forward
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Credo for Exceptional Leadership -
Evaluation and Closing
Module 3: Organizational Leadership
Session 1: Welcome and Introduction
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Welcome, Objectives, Overview of Module -
Bringing the group together -
Helix Model for organisational coherence (the theoretical part)
Session 2: The Helix Model
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Helix Model for organisational coherence (the implementation part) -
Reinventing Organisations
Session 3: A Model for Organizational Change
- A practical tool how change in organizations is possible
Session 4: Advocacy
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Definition Advocacy -
Case Studies: Advocacy Campaigns -
Advocacy Canvas -
Social Accountability
Session 5: Case Studies
- Presentations with feedforward
Session 6: Exceptional organizations
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Tools to make organizations fly and flow -
What are the success factors for exceptional organizations? -
Happiness/love at work
Session 7: Social Innovation
- Innovation
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Social entrepreneurship
Session 8: Evaluation and Way Forward
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Feed Forward -
Way Forward and Personal Development Plan -
Evaluation and Closing
Testimonial
- The Art of Leadership: Broaden your horizonsFeb 02, 2:00 PM GMT+5:30Advanced LevelThis course is divided into three different compulsory modules. They will take you step by step from having a better understanding of yourself, to be more self-aware, your team to developing and building on your leadership style, building trust and respect.
- The Art of Leadership: Broaden your horizonsJun 01, 2:00 PM GMT+5:30Advanced LevelThis course is divided into three different compulsory modules. They will take you step by step from having a better understanding of yourself, to be more self-aware, your team to developing and building on your leadership style, building trust and respect.
- The Art of Leadership: Broaden your horizonsSep 14, 2:00 PM GMT+5:30Advanced LevelThis course is divided into three different compulsory modules. They will take you step by step from having a better understanding of yourself, to be more self-aware, your team to developing and building on your leadership style, building trust and respect.
Facilitators

Petra Speier-Werner
Petra’s mission is to be a source of inspiration and love that holds a space for everyone to grow and flow. She has been working in different sectors in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Being an organizational psychologist, economist, and political scientist with a doctorate in change management, her trainings, lectures, and coaching are nurtured with her interdisciplinary approach. She will facilitate the training courses in Africa.

Dirk Reber
Dirk is committed to the civil society sector for more than 25 years. With his passion, positive energy, optimism, and autonomy, he likes to see people grow and find their true meaning of values. His international experience in different leadership positions throughout Asia and Africa qualifies him as facilitator, trainer, and coach: preferably with you in one of the CSA courses, otherwise as an outdoor trainer. Dirk's center is his family and nature. He has the roles of facilitator and coach. With a professional background in economics, sociology, and rural development, Dirk is committed to the civil society for over 20 years. Being with Welthungerhilfe since 2003, he worked in consultancy and leadership positions throughout Asia: Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, and North Korea. He will facilitate the training courses in South East Asia.

Sohini Paul
Sohini has been working in the development sector for more than two decades, mostly on capacity building and human rights in the South Asian context. As a facilitator and coach of Civil Society Academy, she has focused on providing trainings and workshops on leadership and team management in several countries across Asia and Africa. She also facilitates trainings on advocacy and rights-based approaches as well as designing effective programmes and projects. Sohini is passionate about civil society strengthening, which is reflected in her facilitation style. She will facilitate the training courses in South & South East Asia, as well as in Africa.

Joachim Schwarz
Joachim is passionate about social justice and is on a mission to support like-minded civil society actors and social entrepreneurs to become more powerful and innovative. Hence, in 2015 he left his NGO career to build the Civil Society Academy. He is an outstanding facilitator and coach with expertise in social innovation, leadership, organizational change, and advocacy. Joachim has spent more than than 20 years in Africa and Asia.