INTRODUCTION

Managers face many challenges caused by the relentless pace of change, whether it’s new business models or the latest technical innovation threatening to disrupt a traditional industry. Too often, these changes are seen as threats, but with the right analysis tools, an ability to think strategically and an understanding of how to communicate and implement the necessary organisational change, the best organisations are able to seize the opportunities in each situation. Many organisations don’t have the ability to adapt their strategy quickly enough to respond to, or anticipate the effects of strategic change.

This Management & Leadership training course on Leading for Strategic Success shows you how to fix this by ensuring your leadership has real impact. You will develop a deeper appreciation of your prime leadership responsibility to make sense of external events, decide how to respond then lead your people to success.

You will explore the power of proven concepts, methods and tools to enable you think strategically about your industry, organization, partners and competitors as a ‘big picture’. You will raise your sights to the real leadership challenges you and your organisation face, rather than the technical, operational and managerial challenges many managers are more familiar with.

You will gain the competencies to identify and remove barriers to success and learn how to deploy a complete strategic management system to effectively and quickly make the right changes to deliver strategic success.

Objectives

At the end of this Leading for Strategic Success training course training course, you will learn to:

Apply new approaches to leadership and change management

Be more resilient and adaptable in responding to change and uncertainty

Develop a more robust and explicit theory of leadership

Transform your approach to your team and your organization

Understand how to recognise and respond to and your leadership opportunities and challenges

Course Outline

Day 1

The Current Context of Leadership

Definitions of leadership

Double loop learning

Rational and non-rational approaches

Leadership of groups and organisations

Transformational change

Day 2

Alignment: Linking Strategy to Operations

Overview of a strategic management system

Measuring results

Foundations for success: Strategic leadership

Business process management concepts

Describing and realizing improvements using process models

Day 3

Analysing and Solving Complex Problems

The difference between simple and complex problems

Understanding complexity

Solving complex problems with systems thinking

Creative thinking techniques

Analysing, preparing and winning arguments

Day 4

Planning for Success

The difference between good strategy and bad strategy

Making a business case

Group decision making and change

Evidence-based management – what really works?

Case study briefing

Day 5

Overcoming Execution Problems – Useful Tools and Techniques

Managing human factors in business performance

Test your leadership – practical case study

Overcoming bias and understanding psychology to get results

Individual plans and presentations

Commitment to action