​Leadership Challenge Albania

The George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership is housed within the College of Professional Studies (CPS) of The George Washington University, providing access to the resources of a world-class educational institution in addition to the professional experts, local leaders, and government agencies found only in the nation’s capital. By working closely with our clients, the Center has access to a unique perspective on the challenges faced by public sector leaders dealing with all levels of government within the federal system.

The Center’s grounding premise is that the public sector needs strong leadership and management capacity within the ranks of government and community groups in order to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. The Center’s mission is to develop public leaders who make a positive difference in their organizations and the lives of the people they serve, by:

• Providing leadership and management development experiences which inspire public leaders and are grounded in research and practical knowledge

• Creating collaborative networks among public leaders to share resources, knowledge, and experience. 

The Center accomplishes the mission by working in three core areas:

• high-quality executive education in leadership and public management

• Research on state-of-the-art public management policies and practices

• Expert management advice

 

The Center fulfills its mission by weaving together this combination of academic and practitioner resources to provide services with a perspective different from that provided by traditional consulting firms.

ICLA - Institute for Change and Leadership in Albania

Is a Not for Profit institute founded in Albania in 2011. It draws on the capacities of excellent professional Albanians recognized for their national and international expertise and on the experience of its associated international partners and consultants. We are also supported by capacities of CFAN[1] (a global community of people who explore and advance change facilitation collaborative to collectively create profound change in a profit and non for profit manner).  ICLA strives to be a national and regional leader in the areas of leadership and capacity development, change, research and development practices .

ICLA is fuelled and supported by its excellent people and with extraordinary tools and processes; is formed of expertise and passion, seeking to understand and to inform, to help and to inspire, to prepare and to lead.  ICLA brings an international and intercultural approach to dealing with change. 

We at ICLA believe that each situation is unique, and as such only a combination of tools, processes and expertise can allow individuals and organizations to move forward and benefit from the bounty which the environment offers.

ICLA can offer services at national and regional level focused on the following thematic areas:

Change management, knowledge management, training design and delivery for public institutions, private business and NGOs in social, economic and human development area combined with leadership & talent, blended learning techniques

Development expertise and consulting on policy, programme and legal framework development in social, economic and human development area. 

Development, facilitation of key and / or new programmes and initiatives for government institutions at central and local level, as well as private business and civil society organizations including cross border initiatives.

Strategic planning, results-oriented monitoring and evaluation for policies, strategies and programmes at local, national and regional level.

Economic research and business advisory services for small businesses in the areas of Risk Management, Economic, Sector and Financial Research, as well as desk reviews, rapid assessments, household based surveys etc.

[1] http://www.change-facilitation.com/

 

“Edil Al” is a leader construction company. It was founded in 1994. The company operates nowadays as a trading company, builder, investor, which buys, develops, manages and sells real estate assets.

We believe and rely on our human capital and we recognize that a new leadership mindset is required to cultivate new strategies and open new markets.

We believe that:

• Leadership is  a competitive advantage

• Creativity is required to constantly reinvent

• The most effective leaders are conscious leaders

• Leadership development is a strategic priority, and is more complex than once thought

In fact, outstanding leaders significantly outperform their less effective counterparts.  This is why we believe that great leadership is a competitive advantage, and that sustaining high levels of business performance is achieved through effective leadership practices applied with discipline over time.  We believe, as senior leaders struggle with rapidly mounting global complexity and the creativity required throughout the organization to constantly reinvent the business, that the development of effective leadership has never been more of a strategic, competitive priority.

Organizational performance is directly tied to effective leadership and the only sustainable competitive advantage today is leadership. Preserving that competitive advantage means that leaders and their organizations must develop at a rate that keeps pace with accelerating magnitude of global change. The development of leaders is more complex than most people believe. It challenges the foundations of our most cherished assumptions. EDIL-Al would like to further explore and be a thought partner in how we cultivate a new mindset, from which genuinely new and responsive strategies will flow. Through our engagement we hope to leave a legacy not only for the country but also in the region and world.