This workshop introduces the principle of strategy and develops an effective process for developing strategy at all levels in an organisation. This workshop will also focus on the critical roles of team leader and middle manager in harnessing their team's potential, and introduces and practices techniques for moving the team to peak performance.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Define and to demystify the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’, but also to demystify the strategic process - as part of ‘Helicopter Thinking’
Break the strategy process down step-by-step, providing a practical toolkit for managers for each key stage
Illustrate it through some well-chosen and highly stimulating case studies - and to distill the lessons from this
Apply it to their area of management responsibility - through planning the analysis, option generation, choice, implementation and measurement phases of strategy
Put this within the overall context of the organization and the change and influencing process generally
Give more confidence in managing their role strategically within their organization
Understand their role as a manager and a leader
Establish clear objectives and standards of performance for your team and to manage and use conflict and challenge
Gain better decision-taking and time and resource allocation - leading to better organizational and individual performance
Use of a well-proven planning process
Head of departments
Managers among all managerial levels
Supervisors & Team leaders
Employees & persons who are interested in gaining this great knowledge
What are strategy and strategic planning?
Why are strategy and strategic planning important?
What are the main conceptual frameworks?
External analysis - understanding and analyzing business attractiveness - macroenvironmental factors, growth drivers, competitive forces, market dynamics
Benchmarking your own strategic position/competitor analysis
Analyzing customers
“Thinking backward from the customer”
Mini-case on importance of external analysis
The interface of external and internal analysis
Internal analysis: financial
Internal analysis; non-financial
The concept and practicalities of the “balanced scorecard”
Diagnosing strategic problems and opportunities
Fusion of analyses into strategic choices - SWOT and the strategy matrix
Case examples of strategic choice
Mini-case on importance of internal analysis
Review of the tools used so far
The content of a strategy: avoiding “paralysis by analysis”
Putting a strategic plan together – the 5-page framework
A real-life example of a business strategy/strategic plan
Strategies for alliances and joint ventures
Example of best practice in alliances and joint ventures
The essence of globalization and global strategy
Globalization – the strategic dimension
Globalization – the organizational dimension
Globalization – the human dimension
How to build and manage a strategic planning team
Communicating strategy through the organization
Gaining your team’s commitment and buy-in to the strategy
Effective execution - converting strategic analysis and planning into action
Linking strategy with operational objectives
Implementation – getting practical things done
Strategic planning of your career
Creating tomorrow’s organization out of today’s organization
Conclusion - the corporate and individual value of strategic thinking
Teams, leaders, and managers
Key leadership tasks
Influence, authority and power
Leadership styles and style flexibility
Self-awareness
Emotional intelligence and rapport
Creating a shared vision
Aims, objectives and goal alignment
Developing meaningful objectives and indicators
Divergent approaches to problem-solving
Communicating a compelling vision
Delivering challenging messages
Team development
The sociology of the team
Characteristics of high-performing teams
Balancing team roles
Non-traditional team structures
Delegation and empowerment
Learning and competence
Building a coherent team
Self-managing teams and their challenges
Coaching, mentoring, and self-directed learning
Feedback and appraisal
Leveraging team strengths for peak performance
Defining performance
Approaches to measuring team and individual performance
The 5-Day Mini MBA is a unique distillation of the skills that need to be acquired in order to be considered successful in modern business. Not everyone is able to devote a year or two of their time to studying for a Masters in Business Administration, but in an age of rapid change in a highly competitive environment, it is crucial to have a thorough understanding of the issues involved in the smooth and successful running of a business. The 5 Day Mini MBA Leadership & Management Masterclass is a highly intensive training course covering all the usual subjects associated with an MBA. In 5 days, a delegate will learn what normally takes a year of full-time study. The Mini MBA course is designed to provide delegates with comprehensive knowledge of fundamental, proven strategies taught as both an academic and practical exercise. As a result, the course will provide a comprehensive understanding of the skills and knowledge that will be required for any person to further develop their business knowledge and skills and even to prepare them for actual formal study for an MBA. The course is designed to be delivered either as an “In House” class for an organization’s directors and senior management or as a public class where delegates from a number of companies can learn both from the course and from one another and exchange ideas and best practice.
Great achievers have always performed well by managing themselves and their capabilities. Self-management is critical for individuals to perform efficiently in both large and small businesses where they are called to perform various duties. Self-management inspires individuals to set their own goals, monitor their behavior in achieving those goals and reward themselves upon their success in achieving those goals. Self-management is the building block for effective management of other people, groups, and organizations. This highly participative seminar will help you to develop your leadership skills to lead others in times of crisis, pressure and stress. You will obtain the latest insights into what makes a leader able to manage themselves and others during times of crisis. Self-mastery is not achieved by accident - it is a process that occurs as we interact effectively with the events and circumstances of our lives. Each moment of our lives provides an opportunity to practice self-mastery by expanding our visions, awakening the faculties of our minds and our hearts, and assuming full responsibility for living, growing, and contributing. As we master our own emotions, we can enhance our ability to lead others, acting as a role model and someone others would truly wish to follow.
Participants in the Lead Crisis Manager training course get the skills necessary to assist an organization in developing, maintaining, reviewing, and continuously enhancing its strategic crisis management capability in accordance with ISO 22361 and other best practices. Additionally, it offers details on the essential ideas and guidelines of crisis management as well as how to set up and use a crisis management framework successfully.
One of the major functions of contracting is to ensure that risks to owners and contractors are identified and managed in a way that both parties are satisfied with the project outcome. While a contract cannot, of itself, make risk “go away”, it can, and should, identify the risks, determine who is responsible for managing each risk, and for the consequences should the risk occur
This course aims to help participants learn how to enhance the operational risk management and resilience capabilities of their organizations. In particular, we focus on how the recent COVID-19 disaster made plain the strategic weaknesses of most organizations insofar as withstanding and responding to surprises.
Increasing IT Infrastructure Management is being outsourced to Professional Companies in this field. Outsourcers have to include Telecom, Health Care, Financial, Airlines, Manufacturers, and Government. We will discuss Case Studies and Business Models. This program intends to provide you an in-depth understanding of the IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Project from Proposals, Prequalification, Tendering, Conditions of Contract, Service Level Requirements, Quality Planning Requirements, Maintaining Security for Business Continuity and Intellectual Property aspects.
The program discusses in detail the Contract Conditions, Performance Guarantees, Service Quality, Long Term Contract Provisions, Quality Planning, Intellectual Property Management, Contract Administration, Performance Measurement, and Lessons Learnt.