Strategy is both complex to develop and challenging to implement. Leaders of organizations have the responsibility and accountability for both - development and delivery. The world is currently very volatile and unpredictable, which requires management to adopt a more adaptable and agile approach to strategy and strategic planning. This Leadership & Strategic Impact training course offers delegates a range of tools and techniques to assist them in preparing forecasts and envisioning potential futures. It also addresses key leadership skills needed to galvanize the workforce including communication, persuasion, influence, and delegation.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Utilize a range of strategic analysis tools
Appreciate the need for developing scenarios to manage uncertainty
Understand the importance of questioning, prior to delivering solutions
Enhance key leadership skills such as influence, persuasion & negotiation
Recognize staff qualities needed for implementing change
Professionals wanting to enhance their leadership capabilities
Professionals who need strategic analytical skills
Professionals wanting to develop skills for strategizing in uncertainty
Professionals aspiring to become senior leaders
Heads of department and project leads
What strategy ‘is’ and what it ‘is not’
The importance of understanding stakeholder interests
Which tool to use and when
Understanding Life cycles: Business, Product, Market
Tools to understand the business environment
Achieving business sustainability, the value chain
The process of strategy development
Tools to imagine possible futures
Research showing how CEO’s apply the tools
Zooming In (detail) - Zooming Out (big picture)
Selecting different types of innovation
The process of innovation - managing failures and successes
Are Vision, Mission and Values just words?
The impact of organisational culture on strategy implementation
Communicating internally & externally
Making effective use of communication channels
How good are your persuasion, influence & negotiation skills?
Addressing the challenge of virtual communications
Using measures to track progress
Using the Balanced scorecard as a strategic tool
What are Critical Success Factors?
Selecting useful Key Performance Indicators
Do measures have an impact on actions?
Translating data into information - useful reporting
The roles & responsibilities of team leaders
Motivating individuals and teams
Engaging with staff for mutual benefit
Team communications: meetings
Evaluating effectiveness of different communication channels
The program opens by exploring the key leadership skills and how to apply them in the organization. Using this initial analysis, the program explores managing yourself as a leader, leading a team, creating breakthroughs through innovative leadership, communicating effectively with others, and imparting leadership values to your team members. All attendees will return to their organizations better equipped to meet the challenges and demands of leadership.
This is a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly informative advanced leadership program. It seeks to develop and enhance your personal, team, and organizational leadership skills.
This seminar is designed to provide practicing or potential leaders with the knowledge and skills required by the role. This leadership programme enables your leaders to critically explore the key idea that the most important function of a leader is to help their people move through the stages of team development.
Alliances in business are a natural route for development – but not all contracting relationships can truly be seen as alliances. A good, trusting and open relationship is essential for a long-term and successful alliance – and this needs to be practiced by the negotiators involved. Negotiation is inevitably at the heart of every process to achieve what you want, whether in an agreement, bargaining for an item, or closing a deal. At the end of each negotiation, the goal is to seek a win/win outcome – an essential characteristic of long-lasting alliances. This course provides an essential framework for effective negotiation — which will be vital for building and exploiting an alliance - from building the relationship, critical thinking to prioritize goals
Health, Safety, and Environmental Management Systems are based on a proactive process for incidents prevention as well as reactive monitoring of performance. Risk assessment is required to be applied to all activities that impact on health & safety, production, asset, environment, and the Company reputation.
All businesses in the current environment need a competitive edge. This can be gained through innovative and exciting products and services, or effective and efficient world-class employees. Top performing organizations are passionate about their most valuable resource - their staff. To maintain their high standards a large proportion of their time and energy is spent on continuous professional development, not only of their employees but of their business. This course investigates the tried and trusted management processes, procedures, and methodology used by many blue-chip companies. They use the tools to develop high levels of performance from their staff. This in turn ensures the future and reputation of their companies through innovative development, service, and evaluation. This course offers participants practical solutions to work-related issues.
Enterprise Risk Management known as (ERM) has evolved considerably since the seventies. From simply 'buying' insurance, it has now grown in importance to become a prime function in many organizations as part of a bigger system known as Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) which starts with corporate governance and ends with compliance. ERM is the function of studying the risks that may hinder a corporation's ability to achieve its goals and then deciding how to overcome those risks. Studies regarding risk management were done by different organizations, including ISO which issued ISO 31000 on risk management. However, the most accepted ERM system is the one designed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). This system, which is the one covered in this course, teaches the steps needed to control risk. It starts with the evaluation of the internal environment and the setting of objectives which are, mainly, a result of the tone at the top of the organization, the directives from corporate governance as well as the vision, mission, and corporate strategies. Then, the course goes through the steps management needs to consider in order to identify and assess risk and decide on proper risk responses and controls. The course ends with how to monitor, communicate, and report risk. In addition, the course looks at risk in different organizational areas such as strategy, reporting, compliance, operations, financial and physical risk as well as risk in different industries.