Oman's National Leadership and Competitiveness Programme launched

Business Sunday 25/September/2016 22:19 PM
By: Times News Service
Oman's National Leadership and Competitiveness Programme launched

Muscat: Diwan of Royal Court has launched the National Leadership and Competitiveness Programme (NLCP) in partnership with Oxford University, IMD and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The initiative is being undertaken with the blessings of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said.
The first session for the Undersecretaries’ Stream of the National Leadership and Competitiveness Programme (NLCP), launched yesterday at the Al Wahat Club, witnessed participation by a number of Undersecretaries in ministries and other government entities connected with improving the business environment in Oman. Dr. Ali Qassim Al Lawati, Advisor for Studies and Research at the Diwan of Royal Court and Chairman of the Programme, explained that the NLCP, an initiative of the Public-Private Partnership Taskforce, complements the National CEO Programme targeted at Omani private sector leaders. It also strengthens the National Human Resources Development pillar of the PPP Taskforce.
The NLCP was designed jointly with leading global institutions in the fields of leadership and competitiveness to focus on collaborative mechanisms between the government and private sector, as well as on the role of the government sector in improving the business and investment environment in the Sultanate.
The ultimate purpose of the initiative is to make Oman more competitive and thus help achieve the national priorities.
The programme design has two streams, one targeting the Undersecretaries and the other the Executive Directors. In the undersecretaries’ stream, a number of knowledge sessions will be delivered over a period of six months by the programme’s three renowned international partners— Oxford University, the Institute of Management Development (IMD Switzerland) and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
All partners were selected through a meticulous process that took into account each partner’s field of specialisation and degree of experience and expertise.
The programme’s sessions will address a number of issues relevant to Oman, such as global mega-trends in the 21st century that will offer opportunities and pose challenges to governments around the globe; creating an enabling environment for public-private partnerships; addressing success factors for public-private partnerships and what can be learnt from other countries’ experiences; enhancing government sector performance through scenario planning and the identification of leadership roles in the development process; and enhancing the most important factors affecting competitiveness in the Sultanate, which were identified through a specialised survey conducted among private sector leaders representing the Sultanate’s different economic sectors.