The National Leadership and Competitiveness Program (NLCP) – CEO Track 2017

With the gracious blessing of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said – may his soul rest in peace, the program was launched in 2017 as a training platform for executive leaders across the different government sectors. The NLCP has delivered extensive learning experience in Oman, the UK, Tallinn (Estonia) and Melbourne (Australia), that has allowed government officials, both at the individual and collective levels, to best carry out the tasks assigned to them.

Start Date

September 2017
Location

Oman and other international locations
Website

www.nlcp.nlp.om

Strategic Partners

Said Business School, University of Oxford

In collaboration with the University of Oxford’s Said Business School as the program’s teaching partner, the first learning module was launched in September 2017.

Program Focuses

Building a community of Omani government leaders with an outcome-oriented mindset able to advance the Sultanate’s competitiveness

Achieving Wellbeing

Understanding how other countries managed to implement competitiveness factors to boost productivity and achieve wellbeing, and how these factors are specifically relevant to Oman.

Achieving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Public-Sector Service Delivery

Understanding how other regions managed to practically develop and achieve efficiency and effectiveness in delivering public-sector services, as well as to build an environment that is favorable for investment, and how this all relates to their individual roles in the Omani government.

Dynamic Public-Private Partnership

Learning how other countries created dynamic partnership between the government and private sectors.

Methodologies, Policies and Governance

How these can be applied in line with the Omani model; studying the models of certain sectors that were identified as strategic priorities in Oman’s 9th Five-Year Development Plan; and identifying opportunities to implement lessons learned on individual roles in each concerned entity.

Identifying Success Factors and Obstacles to Implementation

Implementing policies and identifying the necessary strategies to overcome obstacles to implementation, and tying them directly to the entity’s implementation and action plans.

Program Goals

Building a community of Omani government leaders with an outcome-oriented mindset
Building government-sector leaders able to drive national priorities

Program Themes

Boosting productivity

Achieving wellbeing

Dynamic public-private partnership

Methodologies, policies and governance

Identifying success factors and obstacles to implementation

Statistics

35 Executive leaders

Coaches and Lecturers

Andrew White

Lawrence Williams

John Denton

Neil Jacobson

Tim Morris

Academy