What separates a manager who keeps operations running from a leader who actually moves an organisation forward? Usually it comes down to a handful of practical capabilities: reading stakeholders correctly, making decisions under pressure, and building a personal credibility that holds up at the executive table.

This Strategic Leadership Capability programme by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is built for senior managers, directors, and future leaders who already carry day-to-day responsibility and now need to operate at a more strategic level — balancing innovation, resource efficiency, and a measurable return on the investment their organisation makes in developing them.

Who Should Attend?

• Experienced or aspiring senior managers and directors.
• Future leaders being prepared for broader organisational responsibility.

Knowledge and Benefits:

By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

• Build a professional development plan centred on their specific leadership context.
• Use networking and social learning as tools for continued growth.
• Shape a personal brand that carries weight both inside and outside the organisation.
• Embed leadership development into strategic-level work.
• Think and act strategically in ways that demonstrate a clear return on leadership investment.
• Build and sustain a high-performance culture across the teams they lead.

• Module 1: Leading Change and Creating Strategic Value
  • Using behavioural learning as a medium for strategic leadership development.
  • Applying ROI thinking within strategic-level decision-making.
  • Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to support change.
  • Mapping the organisation to remove impediments to strategic productivity.
  • Building a personal brand that inspires trust at a strategic level.
• Module 2: Foundations of Leadership Theory and Practice
  • Comparing traditional and contemporary leadership models critically.
  • Ethics, values, power, authority, responsibility, and accountability in leadership.
  • The knowledge, skills, and behaviours that distinguish effective leaders.
• Module 3: How Organisational Context Shapes Leadership
  • Organisation type, purpose, values, and culture, and how they interact with leadership.
  • Sector characteristics and their effect on management expectations, benchmarked against other industries.
  • The external environment's demands and expectations on managers.
  • Criteria and behaviours associated with effective leadership across different organisation types.
• Module 4: Personal Effectiveness and Self-Awareness
  • Leadership knowledge and skills that underpin effective leadership.
  • How personal traits — character, intelligence, emotional capacity, integrity, values — shape leadership behaviour.
  • Skills and techniques for assessing individual behaviour and performance.
  • Using feedback constructively and staying aware of one's own emotional reactions.
• Module 5: Reflective Learning and Developing Others
  • Techniques for soliciting and evaluating feedback objectively.
  • Models of reflective learning — deep and surface learning, double-loop learning, learning transfer.
  • Understanding the learning process and the role of structured reflection.
  • Developing others through coaching, mentoring, and delegation, using practical reflective techniques.