Transformational Leadership for Excellence program seeks to create a developmental framework for leaders through personal paradigm shifts. The program will consist of three three-hour sessions, interspersed over three days.
Background
Social transformation and sustainable development must be accompanied by dynamic leadership and ethical governance. The World Bank Institute defines leadership as the process of intentionally mobilizing people, ideas, meaning and resources towards achieving a purpose. However, such leadership cannot happen without leaders who combat systemic corruption, who place peoples’ concerns before their own, who encourage tolerance and ethnic harmony, and who are willing to take responsibility for change.
Approach & Methodology: IAHV recognizes that effective leadership requires a transformation in the attitude, approach, and actions of leaders at different levels of present-day society. This transformation is the consequence of a personal paradigm shift, when an individual recognizes the need for such transformation, and then undertakes to make the requisite change. Transformational Leadership for Excellence facilitates this personal shift through a three-module program.
The first module, the Personal Empowerment and Dynamism module, comprises of techniques designed to aid participant achievement of a calm and peaceful state of mind, the necessary prerequisite toward transformation.
The second module, the Visioning and Modeling Change module, focuses on tangible steps towards realizing participant vision for sustainable and progressive development. The module addresses vision and planning; participant perception and communication skills; and potential personal, social and economic challenges and methods to overcome them.
The third module, the Enhancing Connectedness and Teamwork module, combines the first and second modules, and demonstrates how personal transformation translates into leadership. The module places emphasis on vital aspects of leadership such as ethics, interpersonal skills, team building, and mentoring.
TLEX at the World Bank Institute
The senior leadership team of the World Bank Institute participated in the Transformational Leadership for Excellence (TLEX) workshop in Washington DC, in March 2010. This workshop was aimed at equipping the leadership team with personal and interpersonal skills and broadening their collective vision towards modelling the change they work towards influencing in their constituent stakeholders around the world. Held as a part of their overall strategy meet, TLEX was able to catalyse the strategic process of change and progress the leadership team embarked upon.
TLEX was one of the main workshops of the "Collaborative Leadership for Developmental Impact" (CLDI) program offered by the World Bank Institute for emerging leaders from fragile and conflict affected regions. The participants were emerging heads of states, senators, ministers and civil society leaders from 6 countries- Haiti, Yemen, Kosovo, Liberia, Kenya, South Sudan .The workshop conducted in Washington D.C in June 2010, sought to develop their skills critical to lead reforms in their society and catalyse the process of sustainable transformation.
TLEX was offered to the participants of the "Leadership in Local Government - DARE (Decisions Actions Results) to Lead" program conducted by the World Bank Institute along with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.. Governors, Mayors and City councillors of several Asian countries participated in this workshop alongwith their teams.
This workshop conducted in Singapore in June 2010 sought to build skills of local government leaders to face the many challenges they face for a more inclusive growth with development alongwith a better quality of life for their citizens.
170 managers and team members of The World Bank Institute (WBI) participated in TLEX designed exclusively for them in July 2010 during the
WBI Coalescing Week. Conducted in Washington DC ,the workshop aimed at equipping the participants to tap into their personal storehouse of dynamism leading to better connectedness and teamwork resulting in the achievement of the team goals and vision.The workshop was received very postively by the WBI team .
Quantitative Feedback from the workshop
97 % of the participants reported that the workshop content was very useful to them in their lives
83 % of the participants reported a improved state of mind & feel to be equipped with techniques for personal dynamism and empowerment and can manage their mind better.
85% of the participants received insights into connectedness and teamwork.
82% of the participants felt they were better enabled to model change and broaden their vision
85 % of the participants reported that they were competent/very competent/extremely competent in the above areas after the TLEX workshop (60 % of the participants reported that they were not competent/partly competent in the above areas before attending the TLEX workshop)
Testimonials from Participants
"Many thanks to all members of the TLEX team for making it possible for us to connect to the Self. You are amazing group of teachers and lovely human beings.’
‘Best wishes to all at TLEX for a great mission!’
‘TLEX brings more cohesiveness, greater caring, more generosity. Greater recognition of contribution of strong self to be a member of a strong team.’
‘TLEX is a most wonderful experience I ever had in WBI in last 12 years.”
