Statistical Leadership Training

This training will provide NSO heads with leadership skills to improve their effectiveness through greater awareness of their strengths and weaknesses, and the challenges they face both internally within their organization and externally within the larger environment they are engaging with. NSO heads rarely have the opportunity to receive extensive feedback from staff and stakeholders outside. It is necessary to have to open opportunity and understanding to build a comprehensive plan for driving success within the NSO and the NSS, and by extension the data ecosystem.

This training will provide NSO heads with leadership skills to improve their effectiveness through greater awareness of their strengths and weaknesses and the challenges they face both internally within their organization and externally within the larger environment they are engaging with. Often, NSO heads rarely have the opportunity to receive extensive feedback from staff and stakeholders outside. It is necessary to have to open opportunity and understanding to build a comprehensive plan for driving success within the NSO and the NSS, and by extension the data ecosystem.

With the increased and evolving demand for data from national development plans, Agenda 2030 for sustainable development goals, the current and post crisis affecting the World, including COVID-19 and climate change; National statistical offices (NSOs) continue to be at the forefront of developing and coordinating national statistical systems (NSS) as well as engaging with the larger data ecosystem.

The Statistical Leadership Training program intends to unlock the participants’ potential to be effective in leadership roles and processes. At the end of the training, participants are expected to explain and model their learning to others in their organizations. Participants will be able to disseminate what they’ve learned by taking active roles in leadership and also develop creativity through the activities and tools provided in the training.

Develop and enhance the leadership skills of new heads of NSOs toward effective leadership of statistical offices and the national statistical system
□ Improve confidence of heads of NSOs as statistical leaders in their national statistical system
□ Build sense of accountability
□ Create networks among statistical leaders
□ Share learning of experiences and practices in leading and managing their statistical offices and in their leadership role in the national statistical system Daily programme

The Statistical Leadership Training aims to develop and enhance the leadership skills of new NSO heads towards effective leadership of statistical offices and the national statistical system at large. It also aims to improve confidence of NSO heads as statistical leaders in their national statistical system, to build sense of accountability, and create networks among statistical leaders in the region.