Course Detail

The Goals:

• Strategic: Keeping your focus on both strategic and operational goals and adjusting to the continual changes in the market.
• Organization: Aligning the organization to fit the new strategy and culture.
• Leadership: Increase your effectiveness as a visionary leader to make a greater impact on the people over time.
• Leading Teams: Increase your ability to effectively build the collaboration necessary to get your strategies approved and people to cooperate.
• How: Case studies, videos, simulations, workshops, individual project-work, weekend retreats, group sessions, guest speakers and Faculty coaching will help you to take the classroom back to your office. The first two weeks will deal with thinking strategically about your business and managing your organization to realize your goals. The third and final week will focus on the challenges of execution.

To whom it may concern?

Executives and high level managers taking on additional strategic leadership responsibilities, who are looking to sharpen their analytical skills and strategic leadership effectiveness. Middle managers contributing to the strategies and execution of an organization.

The Process:

The process utilizes all aspects of learning and development including media slides, case studies, video examples, articles from high level business universities and interactivity among delegates. Workbooks are used to focus on many of the challenges you face, such as customer analysis, stakeholder analysis, strategy and leading change. They serve as tools to help translate your learning into concrete plans and actions, as well as to engage your organization and team back at the office.

The Benefits:

• Prepare to boost performance at individual, team and business-unit levels.
• Ensure that your organization is keeping ahead in a constantly changing business environment.
• Enhance your personal impact on strategies and change.
• Provide a clear view of the changes and challenges of the global economy.
• Enhance your capability to make the right decisions regarding budget and resources.

The Results:

• A better understanding of the complexities of choosing the right strategies and changes for the organization.
• Develop your ability as an influential leader and build a stronger, committed leadership team.
• Develop and broaden your perspectives, challenge and stretch your thinking.
• Understand and keep ahead of the pace of change.
• Focus both on building your own capabilities and those of your organization.

The Core Competencies:

• Systems and Strategic Thinking as applied to making better long term decisions.
• Leading from the top, to build a success leadership team.
• Build Strategic Planning Criteria, to organize a successful planning team.
• Understanding the markets, to gain the insight needed to make better strategic decisions.
• Competitive analysis, to benchmark your performance.