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  "title": "Effective Leadership for Revenue Administration",
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  "summary": "Back to top Effective Leadership for Revenue Administration Deadline passed Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2025-12-10",
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    {
      "heading": "Training overview and logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: SA 26.09\n- Location: New Delhi, India\n- Date: February 16-20, 2026 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Target Audience:\n  - Directors and senior members of the leadership team of revenue administrations in the region, who are currently or potentially responsible for building the strategic and operational plans, or reform plan(s).\n- Qualifications:\n  - No formal qualifications are necessary, but participants should have at least ten years' experience in a RA as well as 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 purpose and objectives",
      "content": "- Purpose:\n  - Strengthen the development of capacities and managerial skills of the current or future management teams of revenue administrations of the region to prepare them for critical strategic and leadership roles.\n  - Enable participants to achieve organizational goals and successfully implement reform and modernization plans.\n- Course Objectives:\n  - Hone leadership skills for execution of reform and modernization plans.\n  - Equip participants to effectively contribute to the design and implementation of strategic and annual plans of their RAs.\n  - Develop capacities to manage change, exercise leadership, and lead compliance improvement planning."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Pedagogical approach and learning activities",
      "content": "- Based on the practice of adaptive leadership and its application to revenue administration (RA) organizational goals.\n- Instructional methods:\n  - Case studies\n  - Role-play\n  - Breakout sessions to apply concepts to participants' RA reform experiences\n- Expected outcome:\n  - The course is expected to be a transformative experience for participants, enabling them to effectively exercise leadership roles upon return to their respective RAs."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Core topics and competencies covered",
      "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- Compliance Improvement Planning for RA leaders\n- Strategic and operational planning based on compliance and institutional risk management\n- Environmental scanning, stakeholder engagement, conflict management, and calibration of change management process (elaborated through country experiences)\n- Contemporary issues impacting RAs: gender equity, transparency and accountability, and role of technology"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Participant application and relevance",
      "content": "- Particularly useful for senior management of revenue administrations, especially officials responsible for building strategic and operational plans, and those implementing reform and modernization.\n- Participants will be encouraged to analyze contributing factors to successful or less-than-expected reform outcomes during breakout sessions."
    }
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    "Location: New Delhi, India",
    "Date: February 16-20, 2026 (1 week)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Target Audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Purpose:",
    "Course Objectives:",
    "Based on the practice of adaptive leadership and its application to revenue administration (RA) organizational goals.",
    "Instructional methods:",
    "Expected outcome:",
    "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",
    "Compliance Improvement Planning for RA leaders",
    "Strategic and operational planning based on compliance and institutional risk management",
    "Environmental scanning, stakeholder engagement, conflict management, and calibration of change management process (elaborated through country experiences)",
    "Contemporary issues impacting RAs: gender equity, transparency and accountability, and role of technology",
    "Particularly useful for senior management of revenue administrations, especially officials responsible for building strategic and operational plans, and those implementing reform and modernization.",
    "Participants will be encouraged to analyze contributing factors to successful or less-than-expected reform outcomes during breakout sessions."
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