This training course in Oxford Advanced Management & Leadership Programme enables experienced managers to extend their strategy and leadership competencies by exploring the latest proven approaches in both fields, to find out how they apply to their role and organization. A well-formed strategy provides a laser-like focus on the most significant issue that the organization faces. Great leadership provides the vision required to drive the change needed to deliver the strategy and supports people by providing what they need to perform at a higher level.
The strategy has to be shaped for each level of the organization (corporate, business unit, function) and they are all linked and must be aligned. The best leaders are able to shape their leadership approach to the situation and the audience. One of the most important factors is the degree and speed of change in the business environment. This training course equips experienced managers with ideas, methods, and tools that enable them to thrive in any situation.
Frameworks for Strategic Analysis
Fusion of Analysis into Strategic choices
Alignment of Strategy, Culture, Structure, and People
Balancing Influence, Authority, and Power
Communicating a Compelling Vision
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
Define and to demystify the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’, but also to demystify the strategic process - as part of ‘Helicopter Thinking’
Break the strategy process down step-by-step, providing a practical toolkit for managers for each key stage
Illustrate it through some well chosen and highly stimulating case studies - and to distill the lessons from this
Apply it to your own area of management responsibility - through planning the analysis, option generation, choice, implementation, and measurement phases of strategy
Put this within the overall context of the organization and of the change and influencing process generally
Give you a lot more confidence in managing your role strategically within your organization
Understand your role as a manager and a leader
Establish clear objectives and standards of performance for your team and manage and use conflict and challenge
Board Directors
Senior Executives
Chair Managers
Cheif Executive Managers
Definitions of Strategy and Strategic Planning
Why are Strategy and Strategic Planning important?
Understanding the Main Frameworks for Strategic Analysis
Private and Public Sector Strategies – similarities and differences
External Analysis - understanding and analysing business attractiveness
Analysing Customers and Benchmarking your own Strategic Position
How Attractive is the Game that we have chosen to Play?
The Interface and Balance of External and Internal Analysis
Internal Analysis: Financial
Internal Analysis: Non-financial
The Concept and Practicalities of the “balanced scorecard”
Diagnosing and Analysing Strategic Problems and Opportunities
Fusion of Analysis into Strategic choices - SWOT and the strategy matrix
How well are we playing the game that we have chosen to play?
Review of the Tools Used So Far
The Content of a Strategy: Avoiding “Paralysis by Analysis”
Putting a Strategic Plan Together – The 5-Page Framework
A Real-life Example of a Business Strategy / Strategic Plan
Strategies for Alliances and Joint Ventures
Management of Alliances and Joint Ventures
Examples of Best Practice in Alliances and Joint Ventures
The Essence of Globalisation and Global Strategy
Globalisation – The Strategic Dimension
Globalisation – The Organisational Dimension
Globalisation – The Human Dimension
How to Build and Manage a Strategic Planning Team
Communicating Strategy through the Organisation
Gaining your team’s commitment and buy-in to the Strategy
Alignment of Strategy, Culture, Structure and People
Effective Execution - converting strategic analysis and planning into action
Aligning and Linking Strategy with Operational Objectives
Implementation – getting practical things done
Creating Tomorrow’s Organisation out of Today’s Organisation
Strategic Planning at a Personal Level
Overview - The Complete Strategy Process
Summary and Conclusions - The Corporate and Individual value of Strategic Planning
The Relationship between Teams, Leaders and Managers
Key Leadership Tasks and Responsibilities
Balancing Influence, Authority and Power
Different Leadership Styles and Style Flexibility
Self-awareness and Getting Feedback
Emotional Intelligence and Rapport
Creating a Shared Vision
Aims, Objectives and Goal Alignment
Developing Meaningful Objectives and Indicators
Divergent Approaches to Problem-solving
Communicating a Compelling Vision
Taking a Coaching Approach to Problem Solving
Personality Types and the Mix needed for Success
Building a Coherent Team
Self-managing Teams and their Challenges
Coaching, Mentoring and Self-directed Learning
Feedback and Appraisal
Leveraging Team Strengths for Peak Performance
Personality Types and the Mix needed for Success
Building a Coherent Team
Self-managing Teams and their Challenges
Coaching, Mentoring and Self-directed Learning
Feedback and Appraisal
Leveraging Team Strengths for Peak Performance
Defining Performance
Approaches to Measuring Team and Individual Performance
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.
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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.
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