Executive leadership skill & strategic planning for achieving the goals
Course Details
Objectives
• Understand how to design visionary strategic plans
• Work out how to translate strategic plans into action plans
• Examine a model for organizational and individual assessment
• Provide insights into strategic planning problems to avoid
• Identify and learn from examples of strategic success and failure
• Understand the nature of the organizational life cycle
• Provide insights into productive contingency planning
Outline
The Strategic Planning process – 1
• Introduction to the seminar – structure and content
• Strategy – concept and significance
• “Competitive Positioning” versus “Blue Sky” approaches
• Achieving competitive advantage through flexibility and agility
• The interaction of strategy, structure and business processes
• Gathering information and intelligence for the SWOT analysis
• Mini-cases and group discussion – “Cost versus Differentiation”
The Strategic Planning process – 2
• Vision and mission statements – preparing for the future
• Business analysis and contingency planning
• Strategic choice
• Converting the SWOT analysis into the “Strategy Matrix”
• Strategy formulation – programmes, projects, policies
• Transforming the organization – strategy implementation and managing change
• Mini-case and group discussion – major strategic re-orientation
Assessing current state of the organization
• Leadership and management in relation to strategy
• Customer and market focus
• Human resources and knowledge management
• Building a strategic planning team
• Effective process management to achieve business results
• Monitoring and measuring business performance
• Mini-case and group discussion – a market entry problem
Avoiding the pitfalls of strategic planning
• The strategy life-cycle and the problem of strategic drift
• Getting innovative thinking into the organization
• The potentially negative dimensions of success
• How to avoid “paralysis by analysis”
• Overcoming inability to evaluate fresh ideas, denying the truth and thinking inside the box
• The critical importance of teambuilding and teamwork
• Mini-case and group discussion – how and why a good organization can go bad
Personal strategic planning
• Applying strategic tools and techniques to the individual
• Personal goal setting, creating a personal strategic plan
• Implementing change – achieving progress as a strategic manager
• The mix of competencies and personal skills required in 21st century business
• Executing strategy – how to break it down and get it done
• Developing inspiration and gathering support
• Overcoming adversity by leveraging your skills and building on success
• Conclusion – a personal role in the strategic planning and goal setting processes
Who Should Attend ?
This programme is designed to provide executive leadership training for team leaders, ranging from midlevel managers to executives, who lead others with managerial responsibility. It will benefit executives who require strong decision-making skills and the ability to lead and motivate others
