The middle tier is the critical factor in implementing and realizing an organization’s strategy; the middle managers’ significance is in their ability to advance initiatives and processes that merge knowledge created in the field with the strategy of the senior management.
The individual: Developing and enhancing the perception of the local and transformative leader’s role, with a focus on advancing social mobility and empowering local communities.
The organization: Enhancing the effectiveness of organizations in the municipal space by strengthening the commitment and building the capacities of middle-tier managers to impact core challenges in the municipality; developing perceptions and effective management skills among managers.
The municipal system: Impacting system-wide infrastructures, through partnerships between work environments and while reinforcing the municipal management reserves across employment sectors—the local government, business sector, and NGOs.
Five local training days and four sets of two-day national seminars of the local peer group in locations across Israel.
Personal guidance by the program’s facilitator, in order to optimally connect the training content and contemporary challenges faced by participants in their daily work.
Personal mentoring by a senior municipal official or key figure in the professional field.
A local and national network of middle-tier municipal leaders promoting collaborations.