UNHCR Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Oct 2007
InterWorks conducted the fourth Emergency Team Leadership Programme (ETLP) workshop in Villars, Switzerland from 26 October to 3 November 2007.
The ETLP is a blended learning programme consisting of a pre-workshop phase with readings, peer feedback and self-assessments, a weeklong face-to-face workshop and a post-workshop learning activity. Themes which anchor the design of the ETLP include “emotional intelligence”, “situational leadership”, “’win-win’ negotiation”, “decision-making in emergencies”, “team care/ trust building in emergencies” and “coaching”. All ETLP learning activities, discussions and presentations are contextualized to reflect humanitarian emergency environments, challenges and scenarios.
The ETLP targets individuals within the IASC network of agencies (at the UN P4 level) who are currently leading teams or offices in the field or who expect to be available for deployment as emergency team leaders within 12 months following the workshop.
This course has made me aware of many dimensions of emergency team leadership. It provides me with concrete markers to look at & verify by myself or with others on how to judge my performance.
– Workshop participant