CAS Leading within IOs and NGOs
Objectives
- Master advanced management skills and practices applicable to intergovernmental, public and non-profit organizations
- Strengthen your skills in leadership, communication and team management
- Access an extensive network of professionals and build strategic connections in a competitive international environment
- Bridge the gap between corporate business and international cooperation and examine out-of-the box approaches
Audience
Program
6 modules divided as follows:
6 core-modules (mandatory modules):
- Change Management (blended)
- Conflict resolution in Business and Politics
- Designing Development Projects
- Governance, Leadership and Change in the UN System
- Managing Complex Operations
- Performance and Resource Management
Description
Today’s business environment is characterized through hyper‐competitive markets that constantly challenge an organization’s functioning. Within the past two decades, firms twice experienced conditions of turbulent market environments indicated through the bursting of the dot‐com bubble in 2000‐01 and the sub‐prime crisis in late 2008. These economic conditions have increased the complexity of today’s business environment and unambiguously underline the importance of knowing how to deal with environmental changes, difficult business situations, and corporate growth. Managing such conditions consists of multiple organizational challenges and implies that firms must constantly adapt to evolving market environment. This course aims at developing an understanding on how to behave and manage such situations. It familiarizes participants with how to manage change under situations of corporate crisis, global competition and environmental change.
Description
Increasing interdependence within and between societies inevitably leads to conflicts of interest. A dominant way to overcome these obstacles is the new disciplines of conflict resolution and negotiation. After setting the stage with theories of conflict and cooperation, this course covers structural and dynamic issues of negotiation processes. It combines analytical and practical techniques with discussion of real-world examples from business and political conflicts at international level.
Description
This course provides an overview of the international development landscape and how different approaches to delivering development assistance have evolved through time while combining theoretical knowledge with practical hands-on training. Using detailed case studies of existing and hypothetical projects, the course explores essential tools for planning and implementing development projects.
Description
The course provides a conceptual framework and an empirical basis for examining governance and management practices in the UN system. The course focuses both on the specific characteristics of intergovernmental decision making and on the practical aspects of management. The method of work will focus on group work and case studies.
Description
This course module complements academic work on non-profit organizations (NPOs). It aims at providing students with a practical understanding of how international NPOs are set up, governed, led and managed based on some defining factors such as their mission, guiding principles, history and stakeholders, as well as the environment they are operating in. It will walk students through some of the key features of leadership and management of NPOs, both in terms of management frameworks and of leadership and management practices.
Description
This ‘practitioner course’ takes the students in six thematic sessions through the resource management functions in Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs). The course examines the constituent elements and boundaries of NPOs, their embedded incentive systems, and challenges to manage NPOs for results. It also provides the students the tools and analytical framework for an assessment of a NPO of their choice.
Learning outcomes
- Develop your leadership and management skills and increase your team or organization performance
- Apply fundamental concepts of management in complex organizational settings
- Outline key factors in successful global partnerships contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Assessment
Diploma awarded
Admission criteria
- An undergraduate degree
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience
- International exposure
Number of participants
Exemplary list:
- Bruce Jenks, University of Columbia
- Katherine Milligan, Head and Director, Schwab Foundation, WEF
- Susanna Swann, HR Director at EPFL
