Module 1: Strategic Planning, Development & Implementation
Day One: Understanding the Strategic Environment
- Understanding the strategic leadership competencies – intellect, management and behaviors
- Recognizing and interpreting forces in the strategic environment
- Understanding strategic inflection points and strategic scenarios
- Formulating strategic vision and expressing strategic intent
- Analyzing and prioritizing strategic issues
Day Two: Understanding Strategic Models and Paradigms
- The strategic journey – common models and frameworks for strategic thinking
- Developing a strategic roadmap
- Recognizing and developing the characteristics of strategic agility
- Understanding and leveraging strategic competences and skills
- Defining the outcomes
Day Three: Effective Strategic Implementation
- Strategic implementation tools and frameworks
- Structures and systems for strategic agility and performance
- Identifying strategic horizons and using the 7S framework
- Analyzing the key elements for implementation
- Measurement, analysis and knowledge management
Day Four: Strategic Leadership
- Preparing for the future
- Effective styles and practices for strategic leadership
- Recognizing, analyzing and developing the strategic leadership styles used by you and others
- Developing inspiration and motivation
- Communicating the road map and gathering support
Day Five: Driving Strategic Performance & Success
- Transforming the organization to enable strategic success
- Monitoring and adjustment
- Balancing the focus on performance and strategy
- Spreading leadership capabilities throughout the organization
- Maximizing organizational learning and knowledge transfer to embed strategic success
Day Six: Encouraging a Creative Climate at Work
- Innovative leadership for excellent performance
- The Critical mass for change and innovation
- Innovation VS Constant Improvement
- How a Leader Creates a Culture of Innovation
- Case Study on Most Innovative Companies
- Innovation and current business breakthroughs
Day Seven: Gaining the Participation of the Workforce
- The G.E. “Workout” Strategy for engaging Employees
- Gaining the “Buy-In” from the workforce
- Developing Creative Solutions for problems and new Strategies
- Overcoming old Paradigms
- Dealing with Organizational “Drift”
- Case Study on Gaining Empowerment
Day Eight: Leading with the Creative Edge
- Developing Creative Potential in People and Teams
- Managing Creative People
- Learning new Thinking Skills
- Learn New Brainstorming Techniques
- How to Incubate New Ideas
- Gaining Collaboration in the Workforce
- Creative Group Exercise: Identifying new business processes
Module 2: Smart Leadership
Day Nine: Creating a Motivating Climate for Higher Productivity
- The Ten Key Elements to Setting up New Missions
- Setting Goals and Targets Creatively
- Creating a “Sense of Significance”
- Using Emotional Intelligence to Motivate people
- Rewarding Performance
- The Four Step “Pygmalion” theory
- Group and Team Motivators
Day Ten: Driving Strategic Change
- Managing the Change Process
- Kotter’s Change Management Techniques
- Successful techniques for Changing People
- How a Leader Communicates a Sense of Urgency
- How to Overcome the Pitfalls of Change
- Creating an Attitude of Constant Change
- Course Review