Professional Certificate for Leaders

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2. Efficiency Training Institute (ETI) is a training and consultancy provider based in Muscat-Sultanate
of Oman since 1997, comprises qualified and experienced trainers and facilitators who come
from a variety of professional backgrounds and settings. Our team has been affected both
personally and professionally by all of the aspects reflected within our training programs and
consultancy services. We deliver our services to government, corporate sector and community,
and partner globally with individuals and organizations to assist them reaching their full potential
and achieve success through Providing recognized qualifications and endorsing customized
programs, developing innovative training services and products, designing tailored training
programs and Supporting a leadership and management community.
GAFM Global Academy of Finance & Management ®, International Board of Standards -
Professional Designations - Accredited Education. Creating the World's Leaders in Management
™, The GAFM was founded in 1996 by the original founders of the Graduate Leadership Society.
The Founders of our Standards Board are CEOs, Executives, Professors, and industry experts from
around the globe. We desire to raise education standards and ethics in the business and
management industries. Our Certification Standards Board is TUV Accredited and ISO
9001:2008 Certified for Quality and ISO 29990:2010 Certified for Educational Standards. Our
Standards Policy Board awards specialized board certifications, designations, and charters in the
fields of: finance, accounting, management, and consulting fields to qualified professionals who
have completed internationally recognized or accredited exams & education

3. Diploma in Strategic Leadership & Management
Course Overview
The primary learning objective of this course is to provide a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical skills
necessary to improve each participant’s leadership skills. This eight-week course is organized into four
instructional sessions including review and assessment. Each instructional session is delivered using PowerPoint,
video and other materials and exercises with a weekly assessment given at the end of each two sessions to test the
participant’s understanding of the materials presented. the conclusion of the eight sessions, there will be a review
session and a final assessment.
Each session is closely tied to the academic literature in the areas of Leadership, Organizations, Leadership in
Organizations, Strategic Leadership, and Ethics. Participants may, at any time, complete self-directed research and
reading in these topics, in addition to the lectures, as a way to enhance the learning experience.
Participants are encouraged to form learning teams to share the learning of the course and applying them to
current issues and challenges in their workplaces.
Duration:
The duration of the Diploma shall be for two months. Each working day shall consist of
four hours of theory and Practical Work (Morning or Evening), with number of hours at
least 180 up to 200 of hours.

4. Course Objectives:
- To increase understanding of the competencies identified as being key to
improved leadership styles
- To raise awareness of our own assumptions and judgments and their impact on
our effectiveness within the team
- To learn the roles and responsibilities of the strategic leader - director, negotiator, supporter, role model
- know Leading strategically in a diverse organisation with a generational mix and other leadership challenges
- To recognize your leadership mindset and to use it to enhance your productions
- To learn how to apply the success leadership style used by outstanding leaders
- To learn proven lessons on how to inspire & empower others
Eligibility: Prospective participants must meet ONE of the following criteria:
- University Degree or equivalent OR High School Diploma with more than 5 years of relevant skills
through work experience; OR Demonstrate through a phone or in-person consultation that they
have appropriate skills to undertake the course.
Exams
Candidates will be required to complete 4 exams, (Each module will have an examination paper for 2 hours)
Candidates will need to achieve a 50 percent mark or above to complete the paper, the exam is held at
efficiency training
Certificate
On successful completion of the program, and having passed the exam, successful participants will receive a
Diploma Certificate issued be Global Academy of Finance and Management (GAFM) from USA, credited by
International Board of Standards (IBS)

5. Diploma Modules
Module-1: Leadership Dimensions
1. The Nature of Leadership:
- Definitions of Leadership & Leadership Effectiveness
- Major Research Approaches
- Conceptualizing Leadership, Comparing Leadership Theories
2. Transformational Strategy
- Introduction to Strategic Leadership
- Transformational Strategy
- Types of Planning & Revolutionary Model of Planning
- Patterns of Failure and Successful Venturing
- Technological Revolutions & Revolutionary Strategies
3. Nature of Managerial Work:
- Activity Patterns of Managerial Work
- Research on Situational Determinants
- The Changing Nature of Managerial Work
- Managerial Discretion and Descriptive Research
4. Strategic Leadership:
- Constraints on Executive Discretion
- Attributions about Chief Executives
- Research on Effects of Leadership Succession
- Evolutionary Change & Strategic Leadership
- Political Power & Strategic Leadership
- Executive Tenure & Strategic Leadership
- Executive Teams, Competing Values in Strategic Leadership
- Formulating Strategy

6. Module-2: Corporate Mission and Vision
1. Importance and use of mission and vision statements
2. Perspectives on Effective Leadership Behavior:
- Leadership Studies
- Limitations of Survey Research
- Experiments on Task & Relations Behavior
- Research using Critical Incidents
- High-High Leader
- Leadership Behavior Taxonomies
- Specific Task Behaviors & Specific Relations Behaviors
- Evaluating the Behavior Approach
5. Industry Structure and Competitor Analysis
- Industry Structure and Analyzing Structure
- Case: Soft Drink Industry
- The Fountain Trade
- Competitor Analysis
- Generic Strategy Matrix
- Differentiation – Broad Focus and Narrow Focus
- Competitive Foresight Methodology Steps
6. Corporate Core Values
- What Keeps People Productively Engaged – Synopsis
- What Keeps People Productively Engaged
- Organizations Purpose
- The Hewlett-Packard Way
- Core Values and Corporate Character
- Stress and Personal Efficacy
- Men of Honor Panel

7. Module-3: Leadership Styles
1. Managerial Traits & Skills:
- Nature of Traits & Skills
- Major Research Programs
- Managerial Traits & Effectiveness
- Managerial Skills & Effectiveness
- Situational Relevance of Skills
- Evaluation of Trait Research
2. Contingency Theories of Effective Leadership:
- LPC Contingency Model
- Path-Goal Theory of Leadership
- Leadership Substitutes Theory
- The Multiple-Linkage Model
- Evaluation of Contingency Theories
3. Charismatic & Transformational Leadership:
- Attribution Theory of Charismatic Leadership
- Self-concept Theory of Charismatic Leadership
- Other Conceptions of Charisma; Charismatic Leadership
- Transformational Leadership
- Evaluation of Theories
4. Leading Change in Organizations:
- Change Processes
- Different Types of Organizational Change
- Influencing Organizational Culture
- Developing a Vision and Implementing Change
- Increasing Innovation & Learning

8. Module-4: Ethical Leadership and Change
1. Developing Leadership Skills:
- Leadership Training Programs & Designing Effective Training
- Techniques for Leadership Training
- Developmental Activities & Self-Help Activities
- Facilitating Conditions for Leadership Development
- Systems Perspective on Leadership Development
2. Ethical Leadership & Diversity:
- The sources and shaping of ethics
- Ethical Leadership and Gender & Leadership
- Leadership in Different Cultures
- Managing Diversity
- Ethical decision making models
- Discerning one’s integrity in complex situations
3. Leadership for the team work and Managing Conflict
- Leadership life cycle & Continuum of leadership
- Leadership for virtual teams
- Developing and leading team
- Stages of group development and Elements of
group dynamics
- Nature of conflict & Resolving conflict
- How individuals and groups deal with conflict
4. Leadership and couching
- The couching cycle
- Pre-requisites for couching and monitoring
- Couching for performance
- The leader's role in couching
- Managing people issue