Organization: IMA International
Registration deadline: 13 Oct 2017
Starting date: 13 Nov 2017
Ending date: 01 Dec 2017
Reach your potential
This intensive three week training course combines our Leadership and Management in Development course and our Monitoring and Evaluation for Results course. After empowering you with leadership and management skills you go on to build on your monitoring and evaluation skills which together will help you to become a successful manager. This course includes a 1-1 professional coaching session after you return to work to help embed your learning further.
Why choose this course
This incredibly practical course is for managers and M&E officers who need to implement M&E in their projects and for those who make decisions at a project or programme level. The trainers are development practitioners with extensive field experience, making this a leading M&E and management training course in the sector.
What you will learn
Through a mix of practical activities, examples of effective practice and coaching you learn how to:
- leverage your natural ability to lead and prioritise demands
- put into practice globally recognised management theories and tools
- engage with current thinking on areas including motivation, influence and power analysis
- analyse your network and prepare for those new conversations that will make a difference
- reflect on your own leadership style and presence
- plan a project using the logical framework
- develop indicators and targets
- use participatory methods for data collection and analysis
- use your findings to stimulate learning, improvement and stakeholder buy-in
- develop and work with a practical M&E system.**Daily Course Objectives***
Subject to change to reflect participants' needs.*
Day 1
Week 1: Leadership and Management
Set yourself up for success
- the differences between leading and managing
- identify and prioritise demands - what is realistic?
- identify leadership styles
Day 2
Understanding the power of your relationships and the nature of motivation
- stakeholder and network mapping
- examine motivation
- understand what motivates you and your network
Day 3
Developing individual and team performance
- linking motivation to skill
- holding conversations that matter
- the art of feedback
Day 4
What makes teams effective
- understanding the nature of teams
- characteristics of effective teams and team leaders
Day 5
Leading into the future
- examining power relations
- exploring leadership presence
- action planning
Day 6
Week 2: Principles of M&E for Results
The changing role and practice of M&E
- M&E fundamentals
- results approaches: outputs, outcomes and impact
- relate M&E to your programme and project cycle
- identify stakeholders and their differing needs and roles
Day 7
Results framework
- develop logic models
- work with and beyond logframes
Day 8
Developing M&E frameworks
- criteria for indicators
- develop project indicators
- identify means of verification
Day 9
Gathering data/information/knowledge
- quantitative and qualitative approaches and instruments
- data organisation, quality assurance and analysis
- design baseline, evaluation and impact studies
Day 10
M&E system and plan
- prepare M&E plan
- M&E system
- week 2 learning synthesis
Day 11
Week 3: Embedding key M&E practices and apply these to your live work cases or a local organisation
- situation and context analysis
- critical overview of logframes
Day 12
Evaluation techniques
- design evaluations for stakeholder benefit and use
- choice and use of qualitative and quantitative collection instruments
- making use of M&E data/information/knowledge
Day 13
Participatory data collection methods
- Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques
- timeline exercises
- focus group discussions
- key informant interviews
Day 14
Learning synthesis and reflection
- innovative M&E approaches (Theory of Change)
- participant presentations preparation
Day 15
Using what you have learnt
- participant presentations
- embedding learning for personal and organisational benefit
- becoming change agents for M&E
A 1-1 coaching session is included with our qualified coach when you have returned to work.
What our participants say
“*IMA has an excellent combination of good trainers and staff. A well organised quality training with great content, that combines knowledge with practice and fun. A rich blend of international participation and shared experience. It enhances team work and promotes good partnership. With IMA training, you become an agent for positive change.”*
Esinu Abbey,Community Water and Sanitation Agency Ghana
"Really great, very interactive, fun and a great variety of participants. I gained a lot of things that I have not experienced before."
Dr Pipin Permadi, Senior Advisor, GIZ Forclime, Indonesia
"The training was very practical and will help me to improve relationships, work and productivity at all levels."
Kelly Moichubedi, Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, Government of Botswana
For more information please visit us at www.imainternational.com, email us on post@imainternational.com or call us on +44 (0) 1273 833030.
How to register:
Apply online: http://www.imainternational.com/training_selection