{
  "title": "Effective Leadership for Revenue Administration",
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  "summary": "Back to top Effective Leadership for Revenue Administration Deadline passed Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2025-08-20",
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    {
      "heading": "Program Overview and Logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: SA 25.12\n- Location: New Delhi, India\n- Date: February 17-21, 2025 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Status: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience",
      "content": "- Directors and senior members of the leadership team of revenue administrations in the region.\n- Participants who are currently or potentially responsible for building strategic and operational plans, or reform plan(s)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- No formal qualifications required.\n- Participants should have at least ten years' experience in a RA.\n- Participants should hold 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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description — Scope and Approach",
      "content": "- Based on the practice of adaptive leadership and its application to achieve organizational goals of revenue administrations (RAs).\n- Designed for officials at senior management levels to implement organizational change and execute reform and modernization plans.\n- Emphasis on developing leadership skills to contribute to the design and implementation of strategic and annual plans of RAs.\n- Learning methods include case studies, role-play, and breakout sessions to apply concepts to participants' RA reform experiences.\n- Course coverage includes environmental scanning, stakeholder engagement, conflict management, calibration of change management processes, and contemporary issues affecting RAs such as gender equity, transparency and accountability, and role of technology.\n- The course aims to be a transformative experience enabling participants to effectively exercise leadership roles upon return to their respective RAs."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Key Concepts and Topics",
      "content": "- Leadership challenges for RA Modernization and reform\n- Management of change — Technical versus Adaptive Work\n- Exercising Power — Leadership versus Authority\n- Effective Communication, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution\n- Adaptive leadership — how to Observe, Interpret, and Intervene\n- Strategic and operational planning based on compliance and institutional risk management"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Learning Activities and Practical Application",
      "content": "- Case studies and role-play to develop critical thinking capabilities.\n- Breakout sessions to apply concepts to participants' RA reform experiences, focusing on contributing factors to success and causes of less-than-expected outcomes.\n- Country experience discussions to elaborate on environmental scanning, stakeholder engagement, and conflict management."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Strengthen development of capacities and managerial skills of current or future management teams of revenue administrations in the region.\n- Prepare participants for critical strategic and leadership roles to achieve organizational goals and implement reform and modernization plans.\n- Support senior management—particularly officials responsible for building strategic and operational plans and implementing reform and modernization."
    }
  ],
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    "Session No.: SA 25.12",
    "Location: New Delhi, India",
    "Date: February 17-21, 2025 (1 week)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Directors and senior members of the leadership team of revenue administrations in the region.",
    "Participants who are currently or potentially responsible for building strategic and operational plans, or reform plan(s).",
    "No formal qualifications required.",
    "Participants should have at least ten years' experience in a RA.",
    "Participants should hold 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.",
    "Based on the practice of adaptive leadership and its application to achieve organizational goals of revenue administrations (RAs).",
    "Designed for officials at senior management levels to implement organizational change and execute reform and modernization plans.",
    "Emphasis on developing leadership skills to contribute to the design and implementation of strategic and annual plans of RAs.",
    "Learning methods include case studies, role-play, and breakout sessions to apply concepts to participants' RA reform experiences.",
    "Course coverage includes environmental scanning, stakeholder engagement, conflict management, calibration of change management processes, and contemporary issues affecting RAs such as gender equity, transparency and accountability, and role of technology.",
    "The course aims to be a transformative experience enabling participants to effectively exercise leadership roles upon return to their respective RAs.",
    "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 based on compliance and institutional risk management",
    "Case studies and role-play to develop critical thinking capabilities.",
    "Breakout sessions to apply concepts to participants' RA reform experiences, focusing on contributing factors to success and causes of less-than-expected outcomes.",
    "Country experience discussions to elaborate on environmental scanning, stakeholder engagement, and conflict management.",
    "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.",
    "Support senior management—particularly officials responsible for building strategic and operational plans and implementing reform and modernization."
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