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Our Projects: Establishment of a Dedicated Meteorology Academy
Our Projects: Establishment of a Dedicated Meteorology Academy

In the nascent stages of this endeavor, with the backing of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Environment, our project sought to lay the groundwork for the establishment of a dedicated meteorology academy

Five-day Strategic Planning Training
Five-day Strategic Planning Training

In May 2024, as part of our most popular training topics, The Strategic Centre has provided a comprehensive 5-day workshop on Strategic Planning for The Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu (RCJY), R

Management and Leadership Coaching Programme: Discover and Deliver Your Potential
Management and Leadership Coaching Programme: Discover and Deliver Your Potential

Following our flagship Empower Coaching Programme for Women, The Strategic Centre will launch an exclusive online programme for aspiring and future leaders, high-potential employees, entrepreneurs, an

Empower: Executive and Leadership Coaching for Women
Empower: Executive and Leadership Coaching for Women

The Strategic Centre is glad to introduce a new three-month coaching programme for ambitious women leaders at all levels that will commence on September 9, 2024. Empower: Executive and Leade

Benefits of Strategic Planning
Benefits of Strategic Planning

Strategic planning offers a plethora of benefits that can significantly contribute to an organization's success.  1.    Improved Decision Making: Strategic planning helps

Why is Strategic Planning Important?
Why is Strategic Planning Important?

Strategic planning is a systematic process that helps an organization set priorities, focus energy and resources, ensure that employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals, and asse

What Can Companies do to Help Advance More Women Into Leadership?
What Can Companies do to Help Advance More Women Into Leadership?

Science points to a series of steps organizations and individuals can take to help close the leadership gender gap. Identify potential leaders early.This includes enabling potential leadership ca

What Happens When Women Lead
What Happens When Women Lead

Decades of psychological research confirm when women are empowered to take on leadership positions, the effects can be metamorphic for everyone. Female leaders demonstrate more transformational l

Four Myths About the State of Women at Work
Four Myths About the State of Women at Work

According to 2023 Women in the Workplace report by McKinsey in partnership with LeanIn.Org., women are more ambitious than ever, and workplace flexibility is fueling them.Here are four myths about the

Importance of Continuous Professional Development
Importance of Continuous Professional Development

Professional development is gaining new skills through continuing education and career training after entering the workforce. It can include taking classes or workshops, attending professional or indu

Top 10 Communication Skills
Top 10 Communication Skills

There are four main types of communication you might use on a daily basis, including: verbal, nonverbal, written, and visual.Communication skills involve listening, speaking, observing and empathizing

4 Reasons why Risk Management is Important
4 Reasons why Risk Management is Important

Risk management is the systematic process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating threats or uncertainties that can affect your organization. It involves analyzing risks’ likelihood and impact, de

Three Common Decision-Making Types
Three Common Decision-Making Types

Making good business decisions is a critical part of every executive’s job and is vital to every company’s well-being.There are three common decision types, ranging from those that are infrequent

11 Ways to Work Full Time and Study Full Time Simultaneously
11 Ways to Work Full Time and Study Full Time Simultaneously

Believe it or not, many people have very successfully attended school and held down a full-time job. These people are not crazy. They have friends and a social life and even families. They didn’t bu

How to Motivate Yourself to Study
How to Motivate Yourself to Study

These practical tips will help you keep your motivation in check even if you are overwhelmed with work and other commitments.1. Create a study schedule and routineWithout a plan, you’re just wasting

How to Remember Things Better
How to Remember Things Better

People who do well on memory tasks don't necessarily have better memories–they just use various strategies for remembering things more effectively and may even do so without realizing it.If you expe

10 Powerful Learning Hacks
10 Powerful Learning Hacks

No matter which industry you’re working in or how long your list of skills is, there is always more to learn. But with age, one’s learning ability withers. Luckily, there are proven learning hacks

How to choose a leadership style
How to choose a leadership style

As someone who's interested in the leadership path or looking for more structure in their current leadership approach, it can be helpful to choose a leadership style that feels authentic to you.Some q

Eight Common Leadership Styles
Eight Common Leadership Styles

Most professionals develop their own style of leadership based on factors like experience and personality, as well as the specific needs of a company and its organizational culture.Every leader is dif

Anyone Can Learn to Be a Better Leader
Anyone Can Learn to Be a Better Leader

Occupying a leadership position is not the same thing as leading. To lead, you must be able to connect, motivate, and inspire a sense of ownership of shared objectives.Heightening your capacity to lea

5 Essential Leadership Skills
5 Essential Leadership Skills

Strong leadership skills are hugely beneficial in the workplace, particularly in today’s fast-paced and competitive working environment. From executives to senior management, these skills can be app

Why The World Needs More Women In Leadership
Why The World Needs More Women In Leadership

Women's leadership as a sub-theme in management is rising. Women leaders defeat many workplace barriers caused by gender biases and are transformational role models. Their challenging journey to the t

How to Choose the Right Executive Leadership Development Programme
How to Choose the Right Executive Leadership Development Programme

Unlike an MBA program, an executive development program is shorter in duration, lasting several days to months. Additionally, an executive development program does not result in a degree upon completi

For Senior Executives, Personal Development Is Professional Development
For Senior Executives, Personal Development Is Professional Development

Executives have the difficult job of thinking about the world from different perspectives, including those of their employees, stakeholders, customers and everyone in between.One day they might have t

Importance of Executive Development
Importance of Executive Development

Informed and adaptable business leaders are crucial for an organisation’s transformational growth in a rapidly changing work environment. In response, executive education is moving beyond traditiona

Too Much Motivation Affects our Decision-Making
Too Much Motivation Affects our Decision-Making

In a good or a bad mood, focused or distracted, in dire or no need: our internal states directly influence our perceptions and decision-making. While the role of motivation on the performance of behav

Creative People Enjoy Idle Time More than Others
Creative People Enjoy Idle Time More than Others

The study, published in the Creativity Research Journal, finds that creative people are more likely to fruitfully use idle time by letting one idea lead to another. Study participants who were more cr

Successful Cooperation Depends on Good 'Mindreading' Abilities
Successful Cooperation Depends on Good 'Mindreading' Abilities

Researchers at the University of Birmingham found that people with strong mind reading abilities -- the ability to understand and take the perspective of another person's feelings and intentions- are

Genes for Learning and Memory are 650 Million Years Old
Genes for Learning and Memory are 650 Million Years Old

A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression and other complex behaviours originated around 650 mil

Nightly Sleep is Key to Student Success
Nightly Sleep is Key to Student Success

A multi-institutional team of researchers conducted the first study to evaluate how the duration of nightly sleep early in the semester affects first year college students end-of-semester grade point

Using Virtual Reality as a Teaching Tool
Using Virtual Reality as a Teaching Tool

A new study by UCLA psychologists reveals that when VR is used to teach language, context and realism matter.Psychologists had people learn words from two phonetically similar languages in virtual rea

Active Learning Methods are Best for Addressing Sustainability Issues
Active Learning Methods are Best for Addressing Sustainability Issues

According to an international team of educators, active learning methods, such as problem-based learning, project-based learning, and challenge-based learning are necessary to provide engineering stud

Trained Brains Rapidly Suppress Visual Distractions
Trained Brains Rapidly Suppress Visual Distractions

New research from the Vision and Cognition group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, published in PNAS shows that while strong distractions may automatically capture our attention, the tr

Young People Who Have Attended University Show Better Mental Health
Young People Who Have Attended University Show Better Mental Health

University attendance appears to produce better mental health outcomes for young people, according to new research by University of Surrey. The study also suggests that a university environment has a

Diversity in STEM May Lie in Peer Mentorship
Diversity in STEM May Lie in Peer Mentorship

A new paper published in Nature Communicationsby at the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that when first-year female STEM students are mentored by student peers, the positive ripple effect la

Key Characteristics and Practices of Expert Teachers
Key Characteristics and Practices of Expert Teachers

In the largest ever review of teacher expertise led by the University of Warwick, including data from over 1,000 teachers from around the world in primary and secondary school education, 73 features c

Students’ Integration at Universities
Students’ Integration at Universities

New research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, points to a method that both reduces academic and social gaps and increases well-being. The recipe for success is to work in pairs – as c

How ChatGPT is Already Changing Education
How ChatGPT is Already Changing Education

After launching in November 2022, the chatbot from OpenAI company had made headlines all over the world. Many schools and universities made it clear that they think the new tool made it easier to ch

Top 10 Skills for the Future
Top 10 Skills for the Future

According to the article Forbes posted in February this year, 85% of people who are in work now will be doing jobs in the future that we cannot even imagine.Here are the skills that might be good in

How we Measure the Success of Our Training Programmes
How we Measure the Success of Our Training Programmes

In our work we thrive to give our clients the best learning experience that achieve highest outcomes.To measure those results we use the Kirkpatrick Model, also known as Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of

New Zealand Announces Plans to Reopen Borders
New Zealand Announces Plans to Reopen Borders

Very positive news for international students as New Zealand announces plans to reopen borders. 5,000 international students to return to in-person study from April.Study Group CEO Emma Lancaster co

Top 5 Books About PhD Research
Top 5 Books About PhD Research

When thinking about applying to a PhD course many prospective students are not sure if they will be able to tackle a very essential part of the research – methodology.Some say that the methodology

Popular Question About PhD
Popular Question About PhD

In our work with the prospective and current PhD students at The SC, quite often we receive questions that are most common when thinking about applying to a postgraduate programme.We have gathered t

Managing Your PhD Effectively
Managing Your PhD Effectively

On September 11, 2021, the Strategic Centre has introduced a new free online webinar for prospective PhD and Doctorate Students. This introductory workshop gave an overview of the PhD requirements,