Introduction

Today’s leaders bear significant responsibilities, especially amidst increasing uncertainties. They must concentrate on navigating their businesses through challenges to achieve successful outcomes.

This Leadership & Strategic Management Training Course provides guidance for leaders aiming to make informed decisions about key elements such as new business strategies, succession planning, and leveraging human capital to support and grow their business.

The course emphasizes strategic management, enhancing skills in strategic thinking and developing effective leadership strategies to support strategic planning functions.

Course Objectives

• Distinguish between leadership, management, influence, and power
• Comprehend the leader’s role in implementing change
• Analyze their own personality and behaviors to increase self-awareness
• Examine various leadership styles and practices, identifying overlaps and differences
• Utilize the team’s capacity for innovation
• Inspireش and motivate the team for optimal performance
• Assess how leaders impact culture and climate
• Understand how leaders navigate change, strategy, and innovation
• Grasp and leverage cultural differences

Target Audience

• Senior Executives and CEOs
• Middle Managers
• Emerging Leaders
• HR and Organizational Development Professionals
• Project Managers and Team Leaders
• Entrepreneurs
• Consultants

Course Outlines

Day 1: Strategic leadership

• Definition of strategic leadership
• Importance of strategic leaders
• The contemporary business environment
• Roles of a strategic leader
• Leadership and personal effectiveness
• Leadership in context
• Self-perception and self-awareness
• Personality, values, and behavior
• Personal transformation
• Path dependency
• Personal style and style flexibility

Day 2: Leadership development

• Definition of leadership development
• Importance of leadership development
• Organizational factors
• Leadership and competencies
• Methods of leader development
• Evolution of strategic planning and thinking
• Strategic thinking in business
• Various conceptual frameworks for strategic thinking
• Commonalities in strategy development and implementation approaches
• Articulating your current strategic conceptual framework
• Core leadership competencies
• Distinguishing leader from manager
• Influence, authority, and power
• Emotions, mood, and disposition
• Rapport-building
• Role of communication in leadership
• Goal congruence and alignment

Day 3: Leadership and change

• History of change
• Vision
• Various approaches to change
• Models of the change process
• Individual reactions to change
• Politics of change
• Belbin's approach
• Margerison-McCann team management wheel
• Time or phase-based models
• Team mental model
• Distributed leadership
• Cultural differences and leadership
• Definitions of culture
• Corporate, team, and national culture
• Norms, rules, and cultures
• Leadership responses to cultural clashes
• Harnessing cultural differences for innovation
• Learning from different cultures

Day 4: Strategies for growth, profitability & value creation

• Growth vs. profitability in various sectors
• Key factors differentiating strategic success from failure
• Strategic initiatives and performance management action plans
• Achieving strategic initiatives with changes
• Drivers of strategic change
• Utilizing insights from past experiences for strategic change
• Engaging the organization in strategic thinking
• Asking strategic questions and aligning work with organizational initiatives
• Formulating strategic hypotheses
• Exploring futuristic strategic conversations
• Using communication to gain influence
• Building your story and personal charisma
• Science of influence and its application
• Advanced rapport, language, and communication skills
• Influencing people above you
• Case-study on building stakeholder engagement

Day 5: How a leader influences people through motivation

• Motivating leaders for a millennial workforce
• Science of self and others' motivation
• Expectancy theory and creating an environment for self-motivation
• Personal roadmap to leadership
• Defining effective leadership today
• Challenges of leading in modern organizations
• Lessons from contemporary leaders
• Leadership styles in modern organizations
• Case-study on "Leaders Eat Last"
• Self-assessment of leadership behaviors