Global Leadership for Foreign Policy Makers | Global Diplomacy & Leadership Excellence

$800

Course Description:

This course develops high-level leadership skills tailored for foreign policy makers and international decision-makers. Participants will explore strategic visioning, interagency coordination, adaptive leadership, and influence-building across complex global systems. The course emphasizes ethical leadership, cross-cultural intelligence, and negotiation for systemic change in global affairs.

Course Length:

6 weeks (36 total instructional hours)

Proficiency Level:

Advanced

Prerequisite:

Completion of a lower-intermediate ESL course or equivalent language proficiency

Course Objectives:

  • Define key principles of leadership in global governance and foreign affairs.
  • Evaluate the ethical responsibilities of foreign policy leadership.
  • Develop a vision and strategy for leading diplomatic missions.
  • Apply decision-making models under uncertainty and risk.
  • Foster interagency and international collaboration on shared goals.
  • Strengthen emotional intelligence and resilience in high-stakes environments.
  • Communicate effectively across cultural, ideological, and institutional divides.
  • Leverage diplomacy as a leadership tool in crisis and transition.
  • Empower teams and build inclusive leadership capacity.
  • Develop a personal leadership action plan for global policy impact.

Description

Unit 1: Leadership Foundations for Global Policy Makers

Introduces leadership theory in a foreign policy context.

Learning Objectives:
– Define key principles of leadership in global governance and foreign affairs.
– Evaluate the ethical responsibilities of foreign policy leadership.

Content: Introduces leadership theory in a foreign policy context.

Activity: Write a leadership reflection paper based on international role models.

Assessment: Reflection rubric and comparative analysis.

Unit 2: Strategic Visioning and Influence in Foreign Affairs

Covers long-term vision, influence-building, and legitimacy.

Learning Objectives:
– Evaluate the ethical responsibilities of foreign policy leadership.
– Develop a vision and strategy for leading diplomatic missions.

Content: Covers long-term vision, influence-building, and legitimacy.

Activity: Create a strategic influence map across institutions and sectors.

Assessment: Influence map presentation and peer feedback.

Unit 3: Ethics, Power, and Accountability in Global Leadership

Focuses on ethical leadership and use of power on the world stage.

Learning Objectives:
– Develop a vision and strategy for leading diplomatic missions.
– Apply decision-making models under uncertainty and risk.

Content: Focuses on ethical leadership and use of power on the world stage.

Activity: Debate leadership dilemmas from real diplomatic incidents.

Assessment: Debate rubric and ethics memo submission.

Unit 4: Decision-Making in Crisis and Complexity

Trains students to lead through ambiguity, volatility, and risk.

Learning Objectives:
– Apply decision-making models under uncertainty and risk.
– Foster interagency and international collaboration on shared goals.

Content: Trains students to lead through ambiguity, volatility, and risk.

Activity: Analyze a crisis leadership case and present alternatives.

Assessment: Crisis case study evaluation.

Unit 5: Cross-Cultural Intelligence and Inclusive Leadership

Explores identity, values, and trust across global teams.

Learning Objectives:
– Foster interagency and international collaboration on shared goals.
– Strengthen emotional intelligence and resilience in high-stakes environments.

Content: Explores identity, values, and trust across global teams.

Activity: Facilitate a cross-cultural dialogue scenario.

Assessment: Dialogue facilitation and cultural lens paper.

Unit 6: Managing International Teams and Interagency Alignment

Teaches collaboration with ministries, agencies, and missions.

Learning Objectives:
– Strengthen emotional intelligence and resilience in high-stakes environments.
– Communicate effectively across cultural, ideological, and institutional divides.

Content: Teaches collaboration with ministries, agencies, and missions.

Activity: Design an interagency leadership coordination plan.

Assessment: Coordination plan rubric and instructor review.

Unit 7: Leadership in Negotiation, Mediation, and Multilateral Forums

Prepares learners for leadership in negotiation and diplomacy.

Learning Objectives:
– Communicate effectively across cultural, ideological, and institutional divides.
– Leverage diplomacy as a leadership tool in crisis and transition.

Content: Prepares learners for leadership in negotiation and diplomacy.

Activity: Role-play as a negotiation team lead in a multilateral summit.

Assessment: Negotiation leadership scorecard.

Unit 8: Leading Through Change, Transition, and Global Disruption

Guides leaders through global change and institutional reform.

Learning Objectives:
– Leverage diplomacy as a leadership tool in crisis and transition.
– Empower teams and build inclusive leadership capacity.

Content: Guides leaders through global change and institutional reform.

Activity: Assess leadership performance in global disruption case studies.

Assessment: Disruption case analysis and peer critique.

Unit 9: Simulation: Foreign Policy Leadership in a Geopolitical Crisis

Engages students in real-time decision-making simulation.

Learning Objectives:
– Empower teams and build inclusive leadership capacity.
– Develop a personal leadership action plan for global policy impact.

Content: Engages students in real-time decision-making simulation.

Activity: Lead a simulation exercise in foreign policy crisis response.

Assessment: Simulation performance and leadership behavior report.

Unit 10: Capstone: Personal Global Leadership Action Plan

Students develop a personalized leadership roadmap for diplomacy.

Learning Objectives:
– Develop a personal leadership action plan for global policy impact.
– Define key principles of leadership in global governance and foreign affairs.

Content: Students develop a personalized leadership roadmap for diplomacy.

Activity: Present a comprehensive personal global leadership plan.

Assessment: Capstone leadership plan and oral presentation rubric.

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