Governance and Leadership Skills Project for Youth in the Public Sector Project

Brief

During this project, “Rasheed” was able to prepare qualified youth leaders to assume leadership positions at various levels in various ministries, departments, and public sector institutions that have faith in their capabilities to lead change and achieve achievement and enjoy the vision and ideas consistent in serving the interest of the country and raising the level of services provided to the citizen, in cooperation with Institute of Public Administration, with support from the Rule of Law Project and funding from the United States Agency for International Development USAID.

Goals
  1. Establishing the concept and principles of governance, its concepts, importance, and practical applications around it.
  2. The ability to employ corporate governance practices at work.
  3. Understanding the global indicators in the areas of governance and the ability to develop mechanisms and initiatives that would improve the Jordanian reality in them.
  4. The ability to evaluate governance practices in the department using relevant standards and mechanisms.
  5. Proficiency in the use of the self-evaluation matrix and the ability to develop an improvement plan.
  6. Exercising effective leadership characteristics and mastering:
  • Self-leadership skills through adaptability, job ethics, self-motivation, leader traits, learning and self-development, self-organization.
  • Leadership skills for others by equipping them with influencing and persuasion skills, effective communication, effective team leadership, acceptance and management of diversity and difference, emotional intelligence, and the development of others.

Enterprise leadership skills through understanding the organization, business management, defining vision, strategy, organized change, problem solving, decision-making, relationship management, influencing others, leadership and innovation

Target group

Public sector employees who do not occupy any supervisory or leadership positions and whose age is less than (30) years, and their functional service is less than (5) years.

Outcomes/Activities

The first stage: Training the participants on leadership skills

During this stage, the target group was trained on self-leadership skills, leadership of others and leadership of the organization, for 72 hours of training

The second stage: Training the participants on good governance in the public sector

During this stage, the target group was trained on the principles of corporate governance (accountability, transparency, rule of law, participation, integrity, fairness, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability), with 108 training hours.

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