First Training Course on Embedding Leadership Behaviour for Resilient Nuclear Performance

Objectives

The purpose of this event is to provide early-to-mid career nuclear professionals  witha hands-on learning opportunity to develop leadership and management skills needed to navigate a rapidly changing nuclear environment.  

Target Audience

This event is targeting early-to-mid career (3-8 years of experience in the nuclear industry) professionals who are incumbent managers or influential individual contributors and who want a deeper management/leadership experience with peers from the broader international field. Member States with late phase or operating nuclear power programmes are welcome to provide more than one nominee in both groups of targeted participants.

Approach and Benefits

Through hands-on practice, reflection, and feedback in both small teams and larger group activities, participants will achieve the following:

• Heightened awareness of both subtle and overt context cues
• Quicker and more effective adaptability to changing situations and circumstances
• Improved decision-making and ability to take relevant action

Goals and Outcomes

• Provide hands-on opportunities for participants to enhance leadership and management skills.
• Establish a robust and agile nuclear workforce, capable of adjusting to changing situations in a timely and effective manner. This approach ensures that the nuclear industry collectively strengthens its leadership capabilities, fostering a unified effort toward resilience and safety.
• Cultivate leadership and management skills that are transferable across various organizational contexts. Through hands-on practice, reflection, and application, these skills will drive both individual and organizational resilience, equipping leaders to navigate challenges and adapt to evolving demands.
• Embed resilience into human and organizational performance to achieve ambitious industry goals, ensuring individuals and teams are better equipped to face unexpected challenges.

Participation and Registration

All persons wishing to participate in the event must be designated by an IAEA Member State or should be members of organizations that have been invited to attend.  In order to be designated by an IAEA Member State or invited organization, participants are requested to submit their application via the InTouch+ platform to the competent national authority (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Mission to the IAEA or National Atomic Energy Authority) or organization for onward transmission to the IAEA by 14 February 2025.

Key Deadlines

14 February 2025: Deadline to send Participation Form (Form A) to the competent national authority for onward transmission to the IAEA. Participants who are members of an organization invited to attend are also requested to send Participation Form (Form A) through their organization to the IAEA by the above deadline.

For more information, including on registration and participation, please see the Information Sheet.