About the Course
**EXTERNAL training:
Selected and identified by OCBA
6 weeks 2-4 H pwe week
Course is FREE, only certificate is paid; €127
Applications before starting
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This training has been developed by Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
In this course you will learn to be a better manager by developing leadership and communication skills designed to turn first time managers into great team leaders.
Considerations external training:
- Since these trainings were created outside of MSF, MSF will not offer Tembo badges for these courses. In some cases, individual courses may offer their own certificate or other recognition when you finish the course. Tembo will NOT be responsible for the registration, operation, support, or certification of the course because it is an external platform.
- Remember that the completion of external online training does not exempt you from following MSF standards, protocols, procedures, policies or Codes of Conduct of the organization.
- If you have doubts about which course might be best for you or would like more information about accessing online training, please speak with your line manager/HR and ask for help.
About the Course
The LEAP (Leadership Education Academic Partnership) programme is a flexible higher education programme developed for MSF and the wider humanitarian sector. It is open to all aspiring leaders within MSF, regardless of their position, profile or nationality.
It is built on a ‘blended’ learning model, meaning that it can be studied online and face-to-face to suit the working rhythms of MSF field work. The LEAP academic partners are the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).
Please enrol in this resource to apply, or for more information on the LEAP programme, please visit our website: www.msfleap.org.
About the course
In any great problem-solving process, it is important to clearly define the problem you want to solve before you spend time and resources building solutions. A great definition of a problem will guide you and your team's work, and kick start the ideation process in the right direction.
Through this course, we will teach you how to define a problem effectively or, in other words, how to create a clear Problem Statement. A problem statement is an actionable and concise description of a problem that summarises who is facing the problem, in which context they face it, and why it is important to solve it.
The course is based on the methodology of Human Centred Design, which is an approach to problem solving which develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all the steps of the problem-solving process. Human involvement typically takes place when observing a problem within context, brainstorming, conceptualising, developing, and implementing a solution. The course will use some of the tools available in the Creative Toolkit.
This course is aimed at anyone who is interested in building their analytical and problem solving skills. No prior knowledge is required to benefit from this course.
The course will be taught over 2 weeks and an 8-hour commitment is expected from participants.
The training approach used during this course is mixed. Mostly, you will work in teams with the support of a tutor. Participants will be required to enrol in a team at the beginning of the course. You will receive instructions to organise a set of workshops in which you will experience different methods to organise information and build a problem statement. You will also conduct some basic research to understand the perspective of those who face the problem.
Teams will then be assessed based on the outcome produced during each workshop.
The tutor will be available to respond to participants' questions and will provide feedback to all the assignments.
Enrolment
If you are interested in applying, you need to:
- Select the team members who will participate with you in the course. This may consist of a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 people. To select your team members, bear in mind the main challenges you are facing, as you will need to choose one to work with as a team throughout the course. Say you, as FC, have perceived that in a certain service in your health facility you have very little attendance and you do not know why. You might suggest then that your PMR and MAM should do this course with you.
- Fill out the application form, explaining in the Motivation section: why you want to do the course, and who your team is. The application form needs to be submitted to the Learning Unit at learningunit@barcelona.msf.org. The deadline to submit the application is 5 weeks before the start of the course. Dates will be periodically posted on this page.
- A selection committee will review all applications and you will be informed if your team has been recruited to do the course.