The Strategic Leadership Programme
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The Strategic Leadership Programme Course
Introduction:
Strategic leadership refers to a manager's potential to express a strategic vision for the organization, or a part of the organization, and to motivate and persuade others to acquire that vision. Strategic leadership can also be defined as utilizing strategy in the management of employees.
The Strategic Leadership Program gives participants the practical tools, techniques, and insight to be a strategic and resilient leader who can work effectively in a complex environment within a senior team, working collaboratively across and outside of their organization.
The program aims to develop more capable leaders with a broadened perspective and a greater understanding of strategic thinking and decision-making, as well as personal insight into their leadership style. Institutions will benefit from leaders better equipped to lead across the organization, with sharpened strategic insight and better prepared for future executive-level team roles.
You will explore the key role of creating a vision that will shape the future of your organization and how to inspire and motivate others to share it. Through the use of assessment instruments, combined with the knowledge and skills developed in the preceding modules, you will develop your plan for what leadership means to you, what it means to your organization, and how you can build leadership capacity in others.
Course Objectives:
By the end of The Strategic Leadership Program course you will be able to:
- Develop an effective strategy to achieve your business goals
- Understand the role of emotional intelligence in leadership
- Take away a practical leadership tool-kit
- Develop a more dynamic approach through enhanced strategic creativity
- Broaden your understanding of the corporate culture to increase your influence within it
- Improve your persuasion and influencing skills to achieve your strategic goals
- Learn the key functions of strategic leadership
- Make strategic decisions in complicated environments
- Adapt their leadership style to the needs of their organization and teams
- Know how to create an empowering culture
- Use cutting-edge strategic tools to create a successful impact
- Lead change within your team and organization
- Tackle both transformational and incremental change
- Communicate messages to make an impact.
Who Should Attend?
The Strategic Leadership Program has been specifically designed for:
- Senior managers and those middle managers who are on the fast track to senior positions.
- Both public and private sector individuals and all senior managers, executives, and directors who understand the benefits both personally and professionally of developing strategic leadership skills.
Course Outlines:
Leadership VS management
- Understand the competencies of leadership and management.
- When should we ‘lead’ and when should we ‘manage’
- Influential leadership.
- Introducing the link between leadership and the climate it creates.
The power of a compelling vision.
- Vision, mission, strategy, and tactics.
- Communicating with passion – bringing your people with you.
- Techniques of upward and downward communication.
- The use of logic and emotion.
- Developing an organizational influencing strategy.
Ethically use a political ‘tour de force’ to influence positively across your organization.
- Techniques for countering unethical and self-serving behavior.
- Defining politics within our organizations.
- Practicing offensive and defensive techniques.
- Manage upwards, sideways, and across.
- Identify and map your inner circle.
- Apply offensive and defensive political strategic
Identify and deal with the political players affecting you such as the sponsor- the opponent – the terrorist – and the leech.
- Understand the psychology of change.
- Dealing with resistance to change.
- Case study of major change story.
- Applying the process to your situation.
Planning and formulating a strategy.
- Strategic Influences – what should you consider?
- Communicating a strategy to ensure success.
- Change management: What works – and what doesn’t.
- Exploiting strategy as a framework for change initiatives.
- Identifying the right change strategies for your company.
