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The Third CGIAR Senior Leadership Program,
Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2-6, 2007
The Third CGIAR Senior Leadership Program was held July 2 - 6,
2007 at IMD International in Lausanne, Switzerland. Thirty
participants attended the Program including 11 NARS leaders (from
Botswana, Brazil, Egypt, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Papua New
Guinea, Peru, Senegal, Taiwan), 6 CGIAR Members (from Switzerland,
UK, Australia), an incoming Board Chair (IRRI), a board member
(IWMI), a DG (ICARDA), a CP Coordinator (Water and Food), and
several Center and CP managers. The Swiss Development Cooperation
sponsored the participation of the 11 NARS leaders, adding
significantly to the quality of the discussions. Jim Dowd of the
Harvard Business School directed the leadership component and
Moncef Bouhafa of the Center for Development Communication directed
the media component.
The leadership component included sessions on the following
themes, many of which were half-day long:
- The personal challenge of leadership, Parts 1 and 2 (by Jim
Dowd)
- Strategic leadership (by Peter Killing)
- Research leadership in the private sector (by Jonathan
Knowles--Director of Research at Roche)
- Leading knowledge workers: The IMD experience (by Peter
Lorange)
- Leadership for high performance and healthy partnerships
(George Kohlrieser)
- Leadership and financial responsibility (by Stewart
Hamilton)
- Leadership and the Board: Contingent governance (by Paul
Strebel)
- Leadership and teamwork in complex global systems (by Martha
Maznevski)
- Peer coaching (by Jim Dowd)
- Your own case study (by Jim Dowd and Selcuk Ozgediz)
- Perspectives on the CGIAR System (by Jim Dowd and Selcuk
Ozgediz)
The media component aimed to strengthen the participants'
capacity to:
- design and deliver effective messages in an interview;
- understand what journalists are looking for, and how to prepare
for an interview; and
- think strategically in dealing with the media.
As with the leadership training, plenary sessions were coupled
with small group work. In addition, each participant had an
opportunity for one-on-one coaching with one of three media
consultants.
The Program included a session on the current strategic and
leadership challenges of the CGIAR. This session explored the
group's vision of the CGIAR System 5-10 years from now and what
the participants thought were the "must-win battles" to
realize that vision. We will share a summary of the session's
discussion with Kathy Sierra and those to be involved with the
change management exercise, as an input to their thinking.
Judging from the participants' comments, the Program was a
solid success. Evaluations of the leadership and media training
components will be shared with the CGIAR community when they are
available.
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