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Akadimiyyat I'dad al-Qada 2, the second Academy for Preparing Leaders (filmed training course)

By Tariq Al-Suwaidan

أكاديمية إعداد القادة 2 ⁦(دورة تدريبية مصوّرة)⁩

The filmed record of the second Leaders' Academy in Turkey, of which the Assabile archive keeps six sessions: a lecture on the objectives of the Sharia by the guest Essam Telima, Tareq al-Suwaidan's four-part lecture on models and steps of strategic planning, and the first part of 'Learning Leadership'.

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"Akadimiyyat I'dad al-Qada 2" is the filmed record of the second Leaders' Academy in Turkey, the residential course for young men and women that followed the one recorded in the first academy. The Assabile archive keeps six of its sessions, each about three-quarters of an hour long and framed by the academy's song. 1 2 3 The sessions are training lessons: in his strategic-planning lecture Tareq al-Suwaidan asks each participant to choose a real organisation and write its plan as the lecture goes. He says this pairing of theory and practice is what sets this year apart from the last. 2 He addresses both the young men and the young women, and says the slides will be posted on the academy's website. 4 5 6 In the sixth session he says the aim is for participants to learn leadership, to teach it, and to be able to found a centre for preparing leaders anywhere. 7 6

The first session is not al-Suwaidan's. It is a lecture on the objectives of the Sharia by a guest, Dr Essam Telima. An opening framing states the academy's aim as preparing Islamic leaders. It presents the session as "opening the door" to the terms and keys behind fiqh, without making specialists of the participants. 8 9 10 No calendar year is spoken in these sessions. The only time marker is al-Suwaidan's remark that the first academy was "last year". 2 As in the first academy, the management authors and models he cites are his references (Pfeiffer, Michael Porter, SWOT), and his figures are his own statements, attributed at their anchors.

The sessions

Session 1. The objectives of the Sharia (1), by Essam Telima. He defines maqasid, traces the field from al-Juwayni and al-Shatibi to its modern revival, and sets out three approaches to texts. He then turns to the three levels of interests and the five essentials. 11 12 13 14 See: maqasid al-sharia, al-Shatibi, al-Muwafaqat, Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

Session 2. Models and steps of strategic planning (1). He distinguishes personal from organisational planning and strategic from operational. He gives his formula "vision plus the route equals a plan", tells the story of Amr ibn Ma'dikarib's sword, and then covers SWOT, scenario planning and PMSP. 15 16 17 18 See: strategic planning.

Session 3. Strategic planning (2): the conditions of PMSP, then Pfeiffer's first step, "planning to plan". This covers the team, the place of the chief executive and of consultants, how the team works, and the length of the plan. 19 20 21 22 See: strategic planning.

Session 4. Strategic planning (3): reviewing values, writing the vision, and the first criteria of a mission. 23 24 25 See: vision and mission, strategic planning.

Session 5. Strategic planning (4): the rest of the mission criteria, tested on real missions; lines of business; Michael Porter; and strategic business units. 26 27 28 29 See: vision and mission, strategic business units.

Session 6. Learning leadership (1): his definition of leadership and its parts; leading and driving; general and specialised leadership; leadership and management; whether leadership is innate; and what leadership is not tied to. 6 30 31 32 See: leadership, Amr ibn al-As, Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, Usama ibn Zayd.

What is not written here

The six sessions kept in the archive are part of a longer course. The second to fifth are one continuous lecture, and the steps of the plan after the sixth (performance indicators and gap analysis) appear only in a preview at the end of the fifth. 33 The following are left out of these pages: the guest lecturer's critiques of particular fatwas and of named scholars; political scenarios about the 1990 crisis; asides on states and groups; the verses and hadith that are recited; the participants' video diaries; and the recap and preview clips between sessions.

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Objectives of the Shari'a (maqasid al-shari'a)· Strategic planning· Vision and mission in strategic planning· Line of business and strategic business unit (LOB and SBU)· Key performance indicators (KPI)· Leadership and the leader's six roles· Amr ibn al-As· Abu Dharr al-Ghifari

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Akadimiyyat I'dad al-Qada, the Academy for Preparing Leaders (filmed training course)· Practical Management (course)· Asrar al-Qiyada al-Nabawiyya, Secrets of Prophetic Leadership (television programme)· Al-Munjiyat (programme)· Al-Din al-Qayyim (programme)· Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim (lecture series)· The early Muslim community· The Companions

Sources

  1. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 2, at 00:05:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  2. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 2, at 00:07:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  3. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 4, at 00:46:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  4. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 3, at 00:34:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  5. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 2, at 00:23:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  6. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 6, at 00:07:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  7. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 6, at 00:06:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  8. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 1, at 00:03:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  9. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 1, at 00:05:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  10. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 1, at 00:06:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  11. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 1, at 00:08:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  12. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 1, at 00:12:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  13. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 1, at 00:13:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  14. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 1, at 00:49:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  15. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 2, at 00:08:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  16. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 2, at 00:14:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  17. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 2, at 00:21:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  18. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 2, at 00:22:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  19. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 3, at 00:11:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  20. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 3, at 00:14:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  21. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 3, at 00:19:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  22. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 3, at 00:43:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  23. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 4, at 00:07:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  24. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 4, at 00:23:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  25. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 4, at 00:39:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  26. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 5, at 00:07:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  27. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 5, at 00:13:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  28. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 5, at 00:28:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  29. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 5, at 00:39:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  30. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 6, at 00:12:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  31. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 6, at 00:15:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  32. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 6, at 00:38:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
  33. Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Leadership Development Academy 2, episode 5, at 00:43:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
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Akadimiyyat I'dad al-Qada, the Academy for Preparing Leaders (filmed training course)

A filmed training course by Tareq al-Suwaidan at a residential leadership academy held in Turkey around 2007-2008, of which the Assabile archive keeps twenty-two lessons: life management, authorship and public speaking, analysing personalities and organisations, making the leader, creativity, strategic and operational planning, change, power and influence, and team exercises.