Course Description
A strategic leader takes an active role in the company and acts as the driver to steer the company down the right path for success. A driving personality has the ability to motivate others, keep them on task, and pay attention to the end goal.
This training course is designed to provide leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximize their own and their team’s creative potential in a strategic context. Its starting-point is self-discovery: participants will work on the inside first and then focus outwards to impact on the world of business.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Demonstrate Innovative Methods For Harnessing Others’ Creative Potential
- Communicate Your Vision In Refreshing And Engaging Ways
- Define The Concepts Of ‘strategy’ And ‘strategic Plans’
- Understand And Explain Visionary Thinking As Part Of The Strategic Process And Apply Strategic Planning To Your Own Management Issues
- Place Your Own Part Of The Organization Within The Overall Context Of Corporate Strategy
- Gain Confidence In Managing Your Own Contribution To The Strategic Implementation
Who Should Attend?
- Senior Management Professionals
- Team Leaders
- Supervisors
- All Professionals Who Are Responsible For Driving Company Growth
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One: Understanding Our Brain Function (Left- And Right-brain Thinking)
- Analogous, Convergent And Divergent Modes
- Continuous Improvement - Letting Go Of The Ego
- Breakthrough Step Change
- Self-awareness And The Nature Of The Ego
- Personal Goal Alignment
- Adaption And Innovation: Personal Preferences For Creating Meaning
Section Two: The Business Plan Process & Creating A Vision
- Harnessing The Power Of The Team
- Organizational Culture And Its Influence On Innovation
- Working With Different Creative Preferences
- The 7 Step Creative Process - Overcoming Organizational Barriers To Creativity And Change
- Models Of Communication
- Viral Visioning
Section Three: Authenticity And Trust
- Creativity Tools, Techniques & Strategy
- Letting Go Of The Vision
- Leading Without Directing
- Motivation Hierarchy Of Needs
- Building A Creative Consensus
- Engaging Stakeholders Creatively
- Effective Execution, Converting Strategic Analysis And Planning Into Action
Section Four: Influencing And Motivating Through Change
- Strategy & Strategic Planning
- Understanding The Main Frameworks For Strategic Analysis
- Analyzing Customers And Benchmarking Your Own Strategic Position
- From Ideas To Action: Creativity And Change
- Strategic Plans And The Relevance Of Alliances And Joint Ventures
- Global Strategy, Team Building And The Management Of Internal Communication
- Strategic Implementation And Getting The Value Out Of Strategy
Section Five: Internal Analysis: Financial; Internal Analysis: Nonfinancial
- The Concept And Practicalities Of The Balanced Scorecard
- The Fusion Of Analysis Into Strategic Choices, Swot And The Strategy Matrix
- Management Of Alliances And Joint Ventures
- The Essence Of Globalization And Global Strategy
- Globalization: The Strategic Dimension, The Organizational Dimension, The Human Dimension
- Communicating Strategy Through The Organization