The highly competitive global economic order emphasizes the need for conscious and enlightened planning and focused management of national resources. Good public governance – the key imperative for economic advancement and political stability in today’s multi-variant society – can only be achieved through the practice, at multiple organizational levels, of intelligent planning and systematic development of resources to deliver targeted optimum benefits to all stakeholders. Today’s Nigeria, therefore, needs to re-strategies by re-tooling the personnel in both government and business with the understanding and application of modern policy formulation and strategic management skills to problem-solving and pursuit of developmental goals.

This is what the Policy, Strategy and Leadership Course (PSLC) seeks to achieve. This four-week course is designed to provide deep conceptual framework for middle-to-top-level public and private sector executives whose analytical skills need to be sharpened to enable them perform effectively as functional and strategic business unit (SBU) managers. Since specific organizational goals are tied to the functions of this level of managers and they are directly responsible for utilizing organizational resources, they need to be effectively tuned to the global institutional vision and direction while at the same time possessing the technical and managerial capabilities to combine human and material resources to effect. Their input is key to policy formulation just as their buy – is important for policy implementation. The course involves intensive studies in policy formulation, strategy development, resource deployment and practicing “effective leadership”.