STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAMMESCourses in strategic leadership are designed to produce leaders who will infuse effectiveness (doing the right things) in our societal endeavors. Participants will be exposed to basic knowledge in leadership, skills to function in organizations of different and divergent configurations and ultimately application of strategies in leading and directing organizations. Strategic leadership programmes are designed as follows.SL1 – Strategic Leadership for Long Duration ProgrammesThe purpose of this programme is to mass produce, at a stretch, Nigerian citizens who will acquire extensive and specialized knowledge in how organizations in Nigeria will be effectively led in this and next centuries.The programme will cover, at a stretch all of the following;
Basic Leadership Course
Organization Leadership Course
Strategic Leadership Course
Mode: Long-duration courses may be undertaken either online or in contact sessionsSL2 – Strategic Leadership for Medium Duration ProgrammesThe purpose of this programme is to mass produce, in batches, Nigerian leaders who, for expediency, can not undertake the entire strategic leadership programme at a stretch.The programme will cover, at a stretch, any of the following;
Basic Leadership Course
Organization Leadership Course
Strategic Leadership Course
Mode: Medium-duration courses may be undertaken either online or in contact sessionsSL3 – Strategic Leadership for Short Duration ProgrammesPurpose: Short duration programmes are designed;
To enable participants who cannot afford the luxury of participating in long-term or medium term duration course, partake in acquiring, bit by bit, leadership knowledge that are of immediate relevance to them.
To enable participants explore leadership knowledge in various fields of endeavors and of concern to Nigeria of today and futures
To address nagging issues in Nigeria with tints of strategic leadership
Mode: Short-duration courses will be conducted online in form of Lectures, Seminars, Conferences, or in contact sessions in form of Workshops, Retreats or Think Tank sessions.LECTURES:Three types of lectures will be conducted, namely Programmed lectures, unprogrammeed lectures and Guest lectures.Programmed LecturesThese lectures are drawn from lessons in our knowledge acquisition trajectory schemes and will be conducted on regular days of the week and on the basis of one lesson together with its elucidation session per dayParticipants in these lecture series who partake in all the lessons for fundamentals of Strategic Leadership, will be allowed to seat for exams at the Diets following their completion of the programmed lecture.Success in the examination will earn the participant “Learned Strategist Certificate” which is equivalent to Post-graduate Diploma.Schedule of programmed lecture is as shown belowPROGRAMME OF LECTURES ON FUNDAMENTALS OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIPModule One: Concept of A LeaderLesson One: Definition of a LeaderLesson Two: Portrait of a LeaderLesson Three: Nature of LeadershipModule Two: How Leaders Emerge Lesson Four: Appreciating Sources of Leadership EmergenceLesson Five: Emergence by TraditionLesson Six: Emergence by Natural Process of SelectionLesson Seven: Emergence by ConquestLesson Eight: Emergence by ContraptionLesson Nine: Projecting Leadership Performance from Sources of Emergence (i) of Dominant leaders in leadership (ii) of Weak leaders in leadership (iii) of Cabals in leadership (iv) of Influential stakeholders in leadership (v) of Factions in leadership (vi) Collegiate leadershipLesson Ten: Environment of various Forms of Leadership EmergenceModule Three: What Leaders Do: Functions of LeadershipLesson Eleven: Introduction (Tasks Leaders Perform)Lesson Twelve: What A Leader Does.Lesson Thirteen: How A Leader FunctionsLesson Fourteen: Machinery Employed in Performing Leadership FunctionModule Four: Styles of Leadership Lesson Fifteen: IntroductionLesson Sixteen: Locating Leadership Styles in Holistic Leadership FrameworkLesson Seventeen: What Is Leadership Style?Lesson Eighteen: Approaches of Leadership StylesLesson Nineteen: Forms of Leadership Styles such as
Visionary Leadership
Servant Leadership
Transformational Leadership
Managerial Leadership
Missionary Leadership
Exemplary Leadership
Charismatic Leadership.
Bulling Leadership.
Lesson Twenty: Momentum as a Tool in Leadership StylesLesson Twenty-one: Inspiration as a Tool in Leadership StylesLesson Twenty-two: Excellence as a Tool in Leadership StylesModule Five: Environment of Leadership Lesson Twenty-three: Understanding Environment of Leadership
What it is
Structure of the Environment (i) Internal /external environment (ii) environment of peace and tranquility (iii)environment of threat to peace and tranquility (iv) environment of crisis (v) environment of turmoil (vi) environment of turbulence (vii)environment of discontinuity (viii) environment of catastrophe
Lesson Twenty-four: Organization as Locus of LeadershipLesson Twenty-five: Human Elements in Leadership EnvironmentLesson Twenty-six: Non-human Elements in Leadership Environment
Environmental Conditions
Environmental Tools
Module Six: Leadership Performance Lesson Twenty-seven: Measures of Leadership PerformanceLesson Twenty-eight: Results; (Outcome, Effects and Impacts) of LeadershipLesson Twenty-nine: Legacies of LeadershipLesson Thirty: Managing Leadership PerformanceModule Seven: Ethics, Values and Corruption in Leadership Lesson Thirty -One: Definition of Ethics, Values and CorruptionLesson Thirty-Two: Ethics and Values in LeadershipLesson Thirty-Three: Corruption in Leadership.Unprogammed LecturesThese lectures are not programmed in accordance with lessons in strategic leadership. They are adhoc lectures designed to address specific societal issues in leadership. They are also lectures designed to teach and learn certain tools and techniques in strategic leadershipGuest Lectures On annual basis, guest lecturers will be invited to address specific Nigerian issues on the basis of nagging strategic leadership. For example guest lecturers will be invited to address issues bordering on security, economy, politics, human resources/technology, law and justice in Nigeria based on strategies not just policiesSeminarsSeminars as distinct from lectures are designed as training platforms for how issues in leadership can be applied in specific work situation or field of endeavors.Seminars will be employed to discuss skills (not education) acquisition in strategic leadership. Thus seminars are not appropriate at the level of fundamentals of leadership.Conferences Conferences are largely the same as seminars. However they attract larger participants and issues that will be discussed in themes and tracks. Conferences, unlike seminars should be conducted at annual or bi-annual basis.Workshops Workshops are employed to discuss issues that are multi-dimensional and require various instruments to address. Workshops in leadership strategies are designed to explore various forms, types, and levels of strategies to be employed in addressing nagging issues in Nigeria. Workshop will be conducted as the need arisesRetreats/Think TanksWhen an issue becomes strategic and requires deep critical thinking, retreats/think tanks will be employed as the platform to address them. Retreats demand temporary withdrawal from the routine.Exam/Certification: Every participant in the leadership programme will be certificated. Those who are unable to subject themselves to Academy for Governance examination or fail to meet the standard set for learning and conduct, will be issued with “Certificate of Attendance”. Otherwise they will be issued with certificate of proficiency as follows;
Basic leadership graduates will be issued with “Learned Leadership Certificates” which is equivalent to Post-graduate Diploma
Organization leadership graduates will be issued with “Skilled Leadership Certificate” which is equivalent to Masters degree
Strategic leadership graduates will be issued with “Professional Leadership Certificate” which is equivalent to Doctorate degree