In this 21st century, senior executives of public and private sectors face special challenges. They must be visionary leaders with a strong commitment in driving results, must be able to apply “people skills” to motivate their constituencies, build partnerships, and communicate with their constituencies. They need solid executive, negotiation, leadership, and international affairs core skills in order to address issues faced by  an organization, a community, a nation, or our world  and  produce optimum results with limited resources. It requires power and influence for a leader to be successfully. Participants will be  empowered with leadership tools to permit them understand and master the sources of the power most leaders have, how they build these power sources and how they can lose the power.

 

Leadership training programs at the United States Institute of Leadership and Diplomacy are participants performance and role-play-simulation training methods based. Participants are empowered with skills on how leaders exercise power and use various strategies and techniques to lead and influence others. Participants will be trained on positive influence techniques - ethical ways a leader can get others to follow your lead, to believe something a leader wants followers to believe, think in a way a leader wants followers to think, or do a think a leader wants followers to do. Participants will learn that there are some ineffective leadership styles like influencing with command-control-methods. They will also learn that influencing with authority is not the right style of leading as people are now more resistant with the rise of knowledge workers. They will be trained on how to get the job done through influencing rather than authority, through collaborative rather than coercive methods, by inspiring commitment rather than demanding compliance. They will discover that influence is a skill that can be learned.  They can become better at influencing others, even across cultures. They will be trained on how to get the required adaptive mindsets for the purpose of Influencing effectively and on how to acquire a global mindset to effectively influencing across cultures. Participants will be trained on ethical influence techniques, on how to avoid unethical techniques, including manipulation, intimidating, and threatening as these techniques are only vectors of destroying the relationship between the influencer and the influencee. Finally, they will be trained  on how to use the elements of power and elements of influence to understand how people build power and how they use that power to effectively lead and influence others.

 

As it can be understood, the Center for Perfecting in the Art of Leadership focuses its mission on training world class international public and private sector leaders, expected to be wise enough and strong enough to advocate and implement policies expected to benefit the people.