Too often company executives and professionals spend most of their time fixing day-to-day problems. They react to problems, rather than focusing on what they would like the company to be and then on making it happen. This program focuses on changing the way we think from reacting (responding to day-to-day problems, fixing and repairing) to developing plans for what we want to have happened and then implementing the plans.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Learn how to develop a plan to achieve the goals you want for you and your company, and develop strategic thinking in your organization/business unit/team.
Determine where you and your company want to be.
Develop a strategic plan for - your organization (company/division/business unit/team and for yourself personally.
Identify the principles and mechanisms that drive successful implementation.
Develop measurable action plans that result in success. Identify, measure, and track critical success factors.
Business Managers
Team Leaders
Process Leaders
Functional Managers
Project Managers
Newly-appointed Senior Managers
What is the strategy – core concept and definition of terms?
What is a Strategic Plan?
How do we think?
Analytical thinking.
Creative thinking.
What is a Leader? - The difference between leadership and management.
Strategic and operational goals – the significance and difference.
Two key roles.
Visionary - the role of the Chief Executive Officer.
Building a strategy/business planning team.
Mini-case 1: tutor presentation and group discussion.
Two key roles.
Review of Day One – questions and answers.
Cost-based strategies versus differentiation-based strategies.
Concept of the “business model”: the integrated supply-demand chain.
Vision, Mission, and Values – case examples, class discussion, and guidelines.
Practical group exercise on Vision/Mission statements.
Analysis of the business environment (1) – the SPECTER technique.
Analysis of the business environment (2) - the 5-forces technique.
Mini-case 2: group work and presentation/discussion.
Review of Day Two – questions and answers.
How to evaluate market structures, trends, and prospects.
SWOT analysis and the strategy matrix.
Strategic choice – how to make strategy selection decisions.
Marketing plans and sales plans.
Market plan – capturing value rather than just volume.
Sales plan – how to choose and fulfill market opportunities.
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.