Blankpolis City Council invites organisations to provide a quotation for delivering a one day “Advanced Leadership Skills” for senior managers in the ‘Making a Positive Difference’ Directorate (for 26 delegates).
Learning outcomes: by the end of the workshop delegates will
- Refresh current skills.
- Be able to develop their empathy, trust, strategic insight, communication, candour, resilience, patience, ethics, personal hygiene and time management skills.
- Move to higher level leadership skills to engage, influence and/or reach agreement or compromise without upsetting anyone including local councillors, community activists and the Daily Mail.
- Use more creative leadership techniques (including juggling, high wire walking, appropriate clowning about and diving into a bucket from 20m high).
- Handle awkward situations such as having to be candid and self-disclosing about leadership with a group of relative strangers in a crowded room.
- Present confidently to large or small groups, using videoed role play with detailed feedback for each delegate.
- Lead with style, flair and presence (via intravenous transfusion).
- Practise a range of techniques.
OK. I admit it, this is not a real tender specification. But it is fairly closely based upon one I saw today asking for a one day course in advanced facilitation skills for sixteen people. Speaking as someone who has spent most of his adult life honing his facilitation skills (and I am still learning loads), the advert roused me (shall we say) to create this parody.
But it also saddens me as well. Here is a large public authority, needing to help some key people become better facilitators but all that the budgets will allow is a one day course... In my view, more than a quart is being poured into a pint pot.
And in the end, will value for money be achieved? Resources are tight I know. But, is this the answer?
What do you think?
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