Strategy is both complex to develop and challenging to implement. Leaders of organizations have the responsibility and accountability for both - development and delivery. The world is currently very volatile and unpredictable, which requires management to adopt a more adaptable and agile approach to strategy and strategic planning. This Leadership & Strategic Impact training course offers delegates a range of tools and techniques to assist them in preparing forecasts and envisioning potential futures. It also addresses key leadership skills needed to galvanize the workforce including communication, persuasion, influence, and delegation.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Utilize a range of strategic analysis tools
Appreciate the need for developing scenarios to manage uncertainty
Understand the importance of questioning, prior to delivering solutions
Enhance key leadership skills such as influence, persuasion & negotiation
Recognize staff qualities needed for implementing change
Professionals wanting to enhance their leadership capabilities
Professionals who need strategic analytical skills
Professionals wanting to develop skills for strategizing in uncertainty
Professionals aspiring to become senior leaders
Heads of department and project leads
What strategy ‘is’ and what it ‘is not’
The importance of understanding stakeholder interests
Which tool to use and when
Understanding Life cycles: Business, Product, Market
Tools to understand the business environment
Achieving business sustainability, the value chain
The process of strategy development
Tools to imagine possible futures
Research showing how CEO’s apply the tools
Zooming In (detail) - Zooming Out (big picture)
Selecting different types of innovation
The process of innovation - managing failures and successes
Are Vision, Mission and Values just words?
The impact of organisational culture on strategy implementation
Communicating internally & externally
Making effective use of communication channels
How good are your persuasion, influence & negotiation skills?
Addressing the challenge of virtual communications
Using measures to track progress
Using the Balanced scorecard as a strategic tool
What are Critical Success Factors?
Selecting useful Key Performance Indicators
Do measures have an impact on actions?
Translating data into information - useful reporting
The roles & responsibilities of team leaders
Motivating individuals and teams
Engaging with staff for mutual benefit
Team communications: meetings
Evaluating effectiveness of different communication channels
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.