Strategic leadership and policy-making skills | CCM

Strategic leadership and policy-making skills

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3 days
12 sessions
24 hours
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Programme goals

The goal of the programme Strategic Leadership and Policy Making Skills is to improve employees' knowledge and skills for strategic leadership and to develop skills in administration to create policies.

Contribution towards development of knowledge, skills and competences

At the end of the training the participants will:

  • Increase knowledge of the need for more effective strategic planning, communication, problem solving and decision making;
  • Improve policy-making processes - creating a vision for change, analyzing evidence-based policy processes, defining policy scenarios (worst and best case scenario), making criteria-based decisions, risk management and policy evaluation.
  • Improve work efficiency by using leadership tools in policy making and action and clear communication and objectivity in implementing solutions
  • You will practice these skills during training

Programme content

  • Policy Making Skills: Analyzing and Using Evidence What is important as evidence?
  • Assessing the need for the importance and value of evidence
  • Identify stakeholders and maps to identify their interests and impact
  • Changes, uncertainty and impacts
  • Key Actor Analysis and Influence Analysis - PESTLE
  • Creating policy scenarios, best and worst possible scenarios in creating public policies
  • Policy-making skills: problem solving and decision making
  • Generating options - creativity in the policy making process
  • Criteria for decision making and sorting options
  • Evaluating leading options
  • Implementation, communication and policy evaluation
  • Communication and preparation of policy brief
  • Redefining stakeholders
  • Influence mapping and pressure analysis
  • Policy monitoring and evaluation

Trainer

Neda Maleska Sachmaroska

Dr. Neda Maleska Sachmaroska is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Change Management (CCM). She possesses over 25 years of professional experience in organizational and institutional development, strategic leadership, change management, human resource development, and the enhancement of organizational performance. As an experienced consultant, trainer, and facilitator, she has designed and delivered more than 500 training sessions, workshops, and expert dialogues across the Western Balkans. She has also provided numerous consultancy services in areas such as strategic management, leadership, human resource management, organizational culture, performance management and KPIs, quality, integrity, and ethics. She holds a PhD in Organizational Sciences and Management—with a focus on results-based management—as well as a Master’s degree in Social Policy and a degree in Psychology. Her international professional certifications include PRINCE2 Practitioner (project management), CAF Trainer, Coach, and Assessor (EIPA), and Internal Auditor certifications for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. She continuously enhances her expertise through specialized programs in leadership, management, organizational development, and "train-the-trainer" initiatives, delivered by renowned international institutions—including Stanford University, the National School of Government, EIPA, PAI, APMG International, Investors in People UK, MDF, ECORYS, IPA, OXFAM, Mansel & Rankin, NI-CO, and Westminster Ltd. Her approach integrates organizational psychology, modern management practices, and practical learning, transforming knowledge into actionable solutions, developed competencies, and measurable results for organizations.

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