Leading & Managing Through:
Strategic Planning & Positive Skills


Date Venue Fees(US$)
1 - 12 Nov London 8900



Overview

This new 10-day programme focuses on the strategic thinking and leadership behaviours that a high-performance organisation needs to guide it to a successful and long-term future. Aside from the strategic perspectives, the programme also concentrates attention on the high-performance management activities which ensure that people are sensitively and effectively led – especially through the principles communication, high performing teamwork, interpersonal skills, motivation, and coaching to achieve results. It provides practical leadership skills, along with the insights needed to adapt principles to specific work environments.

The qualities which lead to success are:

  • Being able to lead the team with both determination and empathy
  • Consult whilst also focussing the team on key objectives
  • Achieve business and strategic objectives for the department and team
The Structure

This comprehensive programme consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10 Day Training event, or as individual, 5 Day courses.

Module 1 - Strategic Planning, Development & Implementation

Module 2 - Developing Personal Effectiveness with Positive Skills

Aims

This intensive ten day programme will help you learn how to:

  • Develop the three key strategic agendas for leaders –Intellectual, Managerial, Behavioural
  • Enhance your own (and organisation’s) strategic thinking and ability to envision powerful strategic futures
  • Identify the most effective balance of Operational Excellence and Breakthrough Strategic Performance
  • Identify and prioritise critical issues and opportunities based on their capacity to enable real value creation
  • Lead and motivate teams and businesses in diverse, turbulent and complex environments
  • Enhance interpersonal communication skills and abilities
  • Build your personal role in team working and motivating individuals
  • Develop communication capabilities to enhance personal leadership
  • Use effective leadership skills to promote positive communication and results
Target Audience

The programme is designed for:

  • Current and potential strategic leaders in medium/large organisations in public or private sectors in any industry
  • Those who have some management experience but wish to enhance their leadership skills in managing interpersonal communications, teamwork and motivation
Learning Outcomes

Following completion of this unit, you will know how to:

  • Interpret internal and external forces shaping the future
  • Develop an effective strategic roadmap through clear vision and statement of intent
  • Enhance and improve strategic thinking and ability to envision powerful strategic futures
  • Recognise your own strategic leadership style and styles of others – and match leadership styles to strategic needs of the “road-map”
  • Motivate people towards the strategic “light on the hill”
  • Identify the most effective balance of operational excellence and breakthrough strategic performance
  • Lead others in areas of interpersonal communications, teamwork and motivation and encourage best practice
  • Develop others to be effective in attaining positive interpersonal goals and objectives
  • Determine a personal role as an effective team leader and motivator in the organisation
  • Build and maintain a high level of trust to build teams
Skills You Will Need To Develop To Put Your Learning Into Practice
  • Think strategically about your organisation’s future
  • Identify and interpret strategic implications affecting the organisation
  • Articulate clearly a strategic vision and statement of intent
  • Identify and communicate clear strategic implementation plans and practice
  • Develop positive interpersonal techniques to enhance your leadership
  • Develop a work environment and personal qualities that foster a commitment to motivation and teamwork
  • Identify best practices and principles for interpersonal leadership
  • Articulate an understanding of leadership in interpersonal skills
  • Develop techniques for a sense of trust for communications with others and
    • understand why the characteristics of some colleagues hinder good interpersonal skills
  • Identify leadership methods to maintain a focus on teamwork and motivation and learn
    • to create opportunities for others through self motivation
Behaviours You Will Need To Develop To Put Your Learning Into Practice
  • Analytical strategic thinking
  • Articulating plausible futures for an organisation, unit or team
  • Structuring effective strategic teams and systems
  • Communicating strategic intent and a strategic “road-map”
  • Displaying strategic leadership
  • Balancing demands for performance and strategic longer-term success
  • Structuring effective strategic teams and systems
  • Motivating and influencing people to achieve strategic success
  • Allocating hard and soft resources to the places which will have maximum strategic impact

Programme Outline


Module 1:

Strategic Planning, Development & Implementation

Day One

Understanding The Strategic Environment

  • Understanding the strategic leadership agenda – intellect, management and behaviours
  • Recognising and interpreting forces in the strategic environment
  • Understanding strategic inflection points and strategic scenarios
  • Analysing and prioritising strategic issues
  • Formulating strategic vision and expressing strategic intent
  • Developing a strategic roadmap
Day Two

Understanding Strategic Models And Paradigms

  • The strategic journey – common models and frameworks for strategic thinking (from Ansoff to Hamel via Porter and Mintzberg)
  • Identifying strategic horizons and using the 7S framework
  • Recognising and developing the characteristics of strategic agility
  • Understanding and leveraging strategic competences and skills
Day Three

Effective Strategic Implementation

  • Strategic implementation tools and frameworks
  • Structures and systems for strategic agility and performance
  • Monitoring and adjustment
  • Measurement, analysis and knowledge management
Day Four

Strategic Leadership

  • Preparing for the future
  • Effective styles and practices for strategic leadership
  • Recognising, analysing and developing the strategic leadership styles used by you and others
  • Developing inspiration and motivation
  • Communicating the roadmap and gathering support
Day Five

Driving Strategic Performance & Success

  • Transforming the organisation to enable strategic success
  • Balancing the focus on performance and strategy
  • Spreading leadership capabilities throughout the organisation
  • Maximising organisational learning and knowledge transfer to embed strategic success

Module 2:

Developing Personal Effectiveness with Positive Skills

Day Six

Mind Empowerment

  • What does the word “think” really mean?
  • Thought precedes all action
  • Roger Bannister’s programme to break the 4 minute mile barrier.
  • Understand the power of your conscious subconscious mind
  • Realise the power of your imagination
  • Understand the significance of teleological thinking
  • How to deal with disempowering thinking
  • How to use the Replacement Principle
  • How to create a disciplined character
Day Seven

Self-Image Empowerment

  • Understanding who you are
  • What is your Self-Image?
  • Discover the one prime cause for success or failure in life
  • Release yourself from other people’s expectations
  • Know the power of discovering your self image
  • How to overcome a low self image
  • Discover the power of choice
  • How to build your self-esteem
  • See what creates your Screen of reality
  • How do you see yourself?
  • Realise nothing has any perspective, other than what you give it
  • Check your train of emotional thought
  • How do you process an event?
  • See how your choice affects your circumstances
  • Create a new picture, of a new you
  • How to develop a healthy self-esteem
Day Eight

Attitude Empowerment

  • What does “attitude” really mean?
  • What is the 85% x 15% attitude success factor?
  • Understand the importance of attitude adjustment
  • Mallory’s failed expedition to Mt. Everest
  • How to maintain a right Attitude?
  • Associate with Positive growing people
  • Listen to, and read daily motivational materials
  • Enjoy the medicine of real laughter
  • Have a fresh and new attitude in everything you do
  • How to create a disciplined character
Day Nine

Word Empowerment

  • Every word you speak releases power
  • Every declared word is empowered positively or negatively
  • How your words can build up or destroy a person
  • Learn what sort of words really encourage and build up people
  • When you open your mouth, your mind is on parade!
  • How to make wise decisions

Appreciation Empowerment

  • One of the six basic psychological needs of man
  • Why is appreciation so important?
  • Learn the attitude of gratitude
  • Express appreciation to those you work with
  • Discover the statements that build appreciation
  • Learn how to express appreciation in a variety of ways
  • Learn how to make appreciation a vital part of your life
Day Ten

Motivation Empowerment

  • What does the word “motivation” really mean?
  • Learn what motivates you and what motivates other people
  • What happens when you are personally motivated?
  • Find out the key factor in a surveyed 100 “most successful business persons in the world”
  • What does motivation do? Discover the 10 powerful results!
  • Discover the medical findings and physiological impact that motivation brings to the body
  • Find out why we lose motivation
  • Learn the 3 major steps of motivation empowerment
  • How to be action orientated
  • Develop and proactive life style


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Tel: (+971) 4 3678288
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