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Members of the International Learning Partnership, a management development programme organised for potential leaders in industry and the public service. The year long programme was based on a project approach with virtual mentors from the United States Federal Executive Institute joining with participants from Northern Ireland to tackle real problems in Northern Ireland Organisations. One project resulted in a completely new approach to dental hygiene for young people.
International
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Developing tomorrow's leaders today
International Learning Partnership
A "Joined up" world? In an increasing complex and interdependent world both government and business have to take a wider view of how they organise and manage their business. Concentrating on your own business is no longer sufficient to guarantee success. We need to understand outside forces and consider ways that we can link more effectively with what is going on in our own sectors and the wider scene. Many services and products can only be effectively delivered by joining up with other organisations. Technological complexity and the cost of development are inducing more co-operation in business. Government agencies find it more and more difficult to deliver their services without joining up with other agencies. Government and business find themselves coming closer together and forming more partnerships. It has been said that we are developing a "joined up" world.
International Learning Partnership is a development process for the senior managers who will have to forge these partnerships and join up the pieces.
How can these managers develop?
The process is based on a simple philosophy and has three major stages. The philosophy states that development is about more than increasing knowledge. You may well learn new knowledge but development is the process of reshaping your experience and knowledge so that you can better meet your own needs and the needs of the system around you. Harvard Business recently stated that the first step in building tomorrow’s leaders was for the leaders to truly know themselves. The first stage in the process therefore is an intensive self-learning experience at the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville Virginia. FEI has developed a unique approach to the Leaders continuing learning known as the Executive Learning Team. In this small team individuals help each other learn during the entire programme. The second stage states that the best development takes place through action. Therefore each participant joins a project team to work on a special real life project over a ten-month period. The third stage states that some learning needs may be known in advance but many only come to light when you are faced with a real problem. Therefore, participants will work on individual learning analysis and plan at FEI. Each Executive Learning Team will determine other input on the programme as they work through the projects. The part that is known in advance is concerned with the "joining up" of the system. During the ten month programme there will be inputs on the structure of government and the economy in Northern Ireland, how the parts relate to each other, how Northern Ireland relates to the rest of the United Kingdom, the European Union and the rest of the global economy.
Who should attend?
The programme is designed for those individuals in the Public Service and Business who are likely to be making the major decisions affecting their organisations in the next decade. Typically these individuals will already hold senior positions and have the potential to move to the highest ranks. The organisers will be happy to advise on the suitability of candidates.
What development will take place? Apart from the intensive self-knowledge aspect of the programme, participants will look at problems in a new way, involving a different set of thinking methods. The approach is concerned with developing Partnership thinking so that strategies may be developed that seek to dissolve problems rather than merely solve them. Many problems are in part a reflection of boundaries, joining up helps to make these boundaries more easily crossed. The programme provides the opportunity to work in a truly multi-disciplinary team and to create networks and alliances that will work in the future. The emphasis is on the practical application of learning and to expand this learning to an international basis.
Programme
September residential at Federal Executive Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia.
October - June Work on projects with individual project teams.
Eight one day sessions.
Meetings with Executive Learning teams. May Final residential session for presentation of projects to sponsoring organisations Total commitment in time is 15 days plus work on project and Executive learning teams.
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