## Effective Leadership for Revenue Administration

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: SA 24.12
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Dates: February 19-23, 2024 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Logistics and participation
- Training Program: Effective Leadership for Revenue Administration (Session No.: SA 24.12)
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Date: February 19-23, 2024 (1 week)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Target Audience:
  - Directors and senior members of the leadership team of revenue administrations in the region
  - Officials who are currently or potentially responsible for building strategic and operational plans, or reform plan(s)
- Qualifications:
  - No formal qualifications necessary
  - Participants should have at least ten years' experience in a RA
  - Participants should have a current or potential role to contribute to the organization's strategic and/or operational planning and reform agenda during the next three to five years

### Course description and curriculum focus
- Pedagogical approach:
  - Based on the practice of adaptive leadership and its application to achieving organizational goals of revenue administrations (RAs)
  - Designed for officials at senior management levels to help implement organizational change
  - Uses case studies and role-play to develop critical thinking capabilities
- Core themes and topics to be developed through instruction and exercises:
  - Leadership challenges for RA Modernization and reform
  - Management of change — Technical versus Adaptive Work
  - Exercising Power — Leadership versus Authority
  - Effective Communication, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
  - Adaptive leadership — how to Observe, Interpret, and Intervene
- Strategic and operational planning:
  - Deepening knowledge of strategic and operational planning based on compliance and institutional risk management
  - Breakout sessions encouraging application of concepts to participants' RA reform experiences
  - Examination of contributing factors to success and causes of less-than-expected outcomes
  - Emphasis on environmental scanning, stakeholder engagement, conflict management, and calibration of change management processes
- Contemporary governance and operational issues included:
  - Gender equity
  - Transparency and accountability
  - Role of technology

### Objectives and expected outcomes
- Strengthen development of capacities and managerial skills of current or future management teams of revenue administrations in the region
- Prepare participants for critical strategic and leadership roles to achieve organizational goals and implement reform and modernization plans
- Particularly useful for senior management responsible for building strategic and operational plans and those implementing reform and modernization
- Expected to be a transformative experience enabling participants to effectively exercise leadership roles upon return to their respective RAs

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Climate in Macroeconomic Framework (CMF)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/cmfat26-22)
- [Big Data for Macroeconomic Statistics (BDMS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/bdmsat26-27)
- [Financial Development and Financial Inclusion (FDFI)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/fdfiat26-24)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/sa/2024/birasa24-12_