High Impact Leadership & Strategic Management

Introduction:

By attending this highly interactive and challenging training course, managers and leaders will gain insights into the complex subject of ‘strategy’. The link between effective leadership and organizational strategy is crucial. Failing to plan results in confusion and poor decision-making. Before planning, leaders must determine the outcomes they seek and share their vision across the organization, to maximize commitment to action. Only by galvanizing the workforce, being clear about the aims and making best use of resources, can organizations beat the competition and achieve their objectives.

Attendance at this training course offers delegates the opportunity to develop their leadership skills, gain expertise in strategy and learn to communicate more effectively with their people. By enhancing their skills, leaders and emergent leaders will achieve much better outcomes for themselves and their organization.

This training course will feature:

• The importance of strategic thinking to deliver business success
• The need for a systematic approach to strategy formulation & implementation
• Use of appropriate measurement to track performance and inform future strategy
• Communicating effectively throughout the organization to maximize performance
• Key leadership competencies for the 21st Century: Strategic and Agile thinking

Objectives:

By the end of this training course, you will have learned to:

• Recognise the impact of leaders on strategy and strategy on leaders
• Develop strategies and plans, utilising strategic and analytical tools
• Understand the importance of innovation in the strategy process
• Develop leadership skills: Influencing and communicating effectively
• Select measurements to track, inform and support decision-making

Course Content:

Day 1: Strategic Challenges Faced by Leaders

• Strategy Development and Strategic Planning
• Understanding Stakeholder Interests – Achieving Consensus
• Using popular strategy tools: Understanding their limits
• Life cycles: Business, Product, Market
• Understanding the business environment
• Achieving business sustainability, the value chain

Day 2: New Approaches to Strategy Development

• Strategizing is a process
• Strategy Tools: Imagining possible futures
• How different CEO’s apply analytical tools
• Zooming in, zooming out: Enough detail but not too much
• Innovation: Red & Blue oceans
• Innovation: Dealing with success and failure

Day 3: Strategic Leaders: Influence and Communication

• Vision, Mission and Values – just words?
• Culture, Power, Influence
• Communicating with 3rd parties
• Communicating internally
• Influencing, Persuading and Negotiating
• Virtual communications

Day 4: What you Measure is What you Get

• The Balanced Scorecard
• Strategy maps
• Priorities and Critical Success
• How measurements impact actions
• Extrapolating and forecasting
• Turning measures into information

Day 5: Personal Challenge – Plan to Act

• Adair’s Action Centred Leadership
• Motivating individuals, teams & organisations
• Different levels of engagement
• How does team leadership differ?
• Team exercise
• Personal action planning

Impact:

Organizational Impact:

Your organization will benefit from management and supervisors who return with a knowledge of how to communicate, motivate and inspire teams towards the organizations strategy to achieve maximum success. They will be able to:

• Building productive teams to achieve growth, continuous improvement, and implementation of change through strategic and critical thinking skills.
• Work more efficiently and effectively when setting and planning goals that have relevance to the Value Drivers (KPI’s) of the organization

Methodology:

This training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes the use of presentations, discussions, group work, videos and exercises guided by the tutor who will facilitate the learning process. A pre and post test/assessment will be provided to measure the learning and understanding in this course.

Who would benefit from this course:

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Professionals wanting to gain leadership capabilities
• Professionals who need strategic thinking skills
• Professionals wanting a refresher in leadership and strategy
• Professionals with aspirations to become senior leaders
• Heads of department and project leads