Inventory of leadership strategies

1. LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES
LEARN STRATEGIES TO MAINTAIN
FOCUS
TEACHING TOOL IN WOMEN RIGHTS PROGRAMS
US SPONSOR – AUGUST 2005
REPORTED BY YOUSSER HEGAZI D/P

2. LEADERSHIP PRACTICES
INVENTORY
• Educating & exposing effective leaders to news situations
• Living in changing societies
• Enabling others to act
• Modeling the way
• Taking people together & giving them similarity among
people

3. FUND RAISING STRATEGIES
• Developing missions statements
• Issues to ensure continuous success
• Sharing information on web sites
• Assess skills needs
• Defend goals arguments (social issues & methods)
• Creating & working with an effective board

4. ADVOCACY & MANAGEMENT
• Grassroots direct lobbying
• Working closely with Media, Policy Makers & Government
• NGOS act level
• Working in coalitions
• Communication level
• Social issues : equality & freedom

5. PLANNING ATRANSITION PROGRAM
• Emergency schedule & long term schedule and fund
raising
• Assess board members / staff members
• Developing academic training & research
• Managing databases

6. ADVOCACY & LOBBYING
STRATEGIES
• Taxation policy (transforming low income communities)
• Sustaining volunteers & giving them responsibility
• Serving public responds
• Corporate social responsibility

7. TECHNOLOGY, CONCEPTUALIZATION
& DEVELOPMENT
• Role of technology for helping communities (surveys,
education, environment)
• Promoting wider dissemination of information & data
through the use of technology
• How technology connect policy & research closely to the
community

8. PROBLEM STATEMENT
• GOAL
• Participating women achieve economic self-sufficiency

9. RATIONALES
• Success in moving in to higher paying jobs and achieving
economic self-sufficiency is closely related to the
availability of opportunities for training and education
• The likelihood of getting and retaining a job is increased
when support services are available

10. ASSUMPTIONS
• There are living wage jobs available to local women
• Thirty participants can be served in the first program year
• RESSOURCES
• Human resources,1
• Part time teacher, 2
• Job placement counselors
• Space ; office & meeting space, training space
• Materials/other ; office supplies, grant funds
• Technology ; printer/copier, 2 computers

11. ACTIVITY GROUPS
• Outreach and selection
• Training
• Job placement services
• On the job support services

12. OUTPUTS
• Flyer developed
• Flyer disseminated to 20 communities agencies
• 10 meetings held with community agency staff
• 30 participants selected

13. CURRICULUM
• Developed / revised
• 2 training sessions
• 30 participants completing courses

14. JOB BANK MAINTAINED
• 10 meeting with local employers
• 30 participants receiving job placement assistance
(interviews and resume writing)
• 30 participants receiving 3 on the job visits
• Number of meetings with employers

15. LOGIC MODEL DIAGRAM : WOMENAT WORK
• LONG TERM OUTCOMES
• Participants are able to manage their money
• Participants stay employed for at least a year
• Participants move in to the higher paying jobs
• Participants take steps to increase their income/improve
their marketability
• Increased self-esteem among participants

16. INTERMEDIATE-TERM OUTCOMES
• Community agency staff make appropriate referrals to the
program
• Participants quality for available jobs
• Participants institute money management practices
• Participants obtain full-time, paid employment
• Participants, with the help of program staff, are able to
manage workplace issues

17. SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES
• Community agency staff have increased knowledge about
the program
• Participants have improved knowledge about the program
• Participants have improved job seeking skills
• Participants, begin their jobs feeling supported
• Participants learn job seeking skills
• Participants successfully apply for positions
• Participants learn money management strategies
• Participants go on job interviews
• More employers are willing to consider program
participants for jobs

18. LOGIC MODEL
• PROGRA GOALS :
• Overall aims or intended impacts

19. RESOURCES
• The resources dedicated to or consumed by the program
• ACTIVITIES
• The actions that the program takes to achieve desired
outcomes
• OUTPUTS
• The tangible, direct results of a program’s activities
• OUTCOMES
• The benefits to clients, communities, systems, or
organizations
• EXTERNAL FACTORS : what else affects the program

20. CONTINUOUS LEARNING CYCLE
LOGIC MODEL
DATA COLLECTION
ANALYSIS,
REFLECTION
& IMPROVEMENT
EVALUATION
PLANNING

21. PUTTING YOUR PLANS TOGETHER
• LOGIC MODEL
• Resources – Activities – Outputs – Outcomes
EVALUATION PLAN DATA COLLECTION
Method Effort
Activities – Outputs-
Outcomes

22. WORK SHEET 1 FEEL THE VISION, MISSIONAND
GOALS
1. What we want to be ?,
2. what kind of organization ?
3. How inspiring a shared vision ? (information appeared
in the Mission Statement)
4. Public needs (services offered)
5. Developing Mission (sustainability)

23. WORKSHEET 2- WHAT IS THE IMPACT
OF THE STATE MISSION ?
• To help an organization do a better job
• To focus its energy
• To ensure that members are working toward the same
goals

24. WHAT AN ORGANIZATION IS ?
• It’s involving
• preparing the best way
• to respond to a future
• & developing an approach
• It’s a discipline

25. WORKSHEET 3
WHAT IS OUR MISSION?
• Management goals & objectives
• Strategic thinking
• Are we doing the right line
• Definite purpose
• Formulation of future
• Mission competitive strategies

26. WORKSHEET 4 – BASIC STEPS FOR A
SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIC PLANNING
• Getting ready
• Articulating mission and vision
• Assessing the situation
• Developing strategies goals and objectives
• Completing the right planning

27. EXERCICE : THEN CREATE A
METAPHOR
• Metaphor
• Draw picture of success
• Organization is like …………………..
• Group share pictures of success
• Discuss what they mean and hope for the beneficiaries
• Look for areas of agreement & ideas that emerge
• Do not write the vision

28. • Ask one or two people to try to drafting a vision based on
the discussion
• Bring back to group
• Revise draft, revise until all members can agree

29. WORKSHEETA – NGO MANAGEMENT
– WORK GROUP – SOCIAL ISSUES
• Equality and freedom
• Design organization
System
Structure
• MISSION
Politics & Management in one hand
The action will contribute to ………..

30. WORKSHEET B – WORK GROUP
Strategy stakeholders trends of
external world vision long term desires
Mission values – holes
Goal narrow
Achieving / measurable / time out
arguments to defend their policy broad

31. Calling
Bring people Plan (linking problem
Together to solution)
social issues Analysis components
women rights equality Narrow
Methods poor education (solution problem)
Peer to peer

32. WORKSHEET C – WORK GROUP -
Environment Political change Social Mobilization
Low level of New regime which Freedom
Education Combat corruption & Human Rights
Cultural Belief promote democracy
2. Forms of Advocacy
Mass media
Direct political lobbying
Community mobilization
Empowerment
3. Five recommended steps
Complete data
Coordinated action
Specific goals
Local and global coordination action
Public appeal