MG84
Course Contents
Module 1 - An Introduction to Strategic Leadership Principles
On Day One the course looks at the necessary components of successful leadership (mission, vision, strategy, resources and culture)
Key Topics
- Strategic leadership principles (or why, in the same environment, does business performance vary?
- The role of strategic leadership and why it matters
- An overview of the strategic leadership and strategic planning processes
- Know the difference between a strategic plan and a business plan
- Understanding your organization’s mission and vision (and its crucial importance)
- Assessing your organization’s current and desired the external and internal environment
Module 2 - Formulating Your Strategic Plans
On Day Two the course looks at strategy as the creation of a unique and valuable position.
Key Topics
- The ingredients (organizational activity system) of strategic planning and its impact on competitive advantage/the bottom line
- Effective strategy planning processes: strategic capability (what we want to do), organizational capability (how we want to do it) and resource capability (knowing we can do it)
- The core strategic choices for an organization: what is and is not strategic planning
- The top manager as strategist planner: the competencies of strategic leadership
Module 3 - Strategic Alignment and Performance
On Day Three the course looks at how to align mission, vision, strategic and culture with people, processes and systems.
Key Topics
- Creating a strategic management map
- How to get every employee headed in the same direction with shared purpose
- Knowing the key building blocks of strategic leadership execution
- Understanding how performance (growth and profitability) are the result of alignment between employees, customers, strategy and processes
- Integrating the resources and business systems to achieve performance
- How to bring together previously unconnected parts of the organization into an interrelated, easily comprehensive, model to achieve consistent, defined levels of performance
Module 4 - Strategy Implementation and KPI/Performance Measurement
On Day Four the course looks at how to use lateral thinking to clarify KPI/ performance measurement as part of your strategy implementation.
Key Topics
- Old and new learning on strategy implementation and delivering performance
- What should a detailed strategy implementation plan contain?
- What strategic management implementation requires?
- Identifying your core strategy implementation plan
- Identifying department and individual KPIs
- Communicating the strategy and overcoming internal political resistance
Module 5 - Being a Strategic Leader
On Day Five the course looks at how to pull all the above together via a strategic planning exercise
Key Topics
- Building ‘strategy making’ and implementation into the role of managers at all levels
- Developing strategic leadership and management implementation capability
- Team exercise
- Creating organizational commitment to the business strategy
- Reviewing and evaluation implementation performance progress
- Leading effective strategy making teams
- Back to work action planning
