STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
1 week | London | £2990
Strategic leadership is about looking beyond the “now” to prepare and position your business for the future. It focuses on the vision of the organisation with emphasis on action for increasing productivity rather than profit. Contemporary strategic leaders empower and motivate their followers via personal and professional competence and presence.
This program focuses on assessing and refining leadership skills, developing and deploying organisational and talent management strategies to build a sustainable, strengths-based organisation that engages employees. Leaders possess the ability to influence others by creating a clear vision through a results oriented approach. This program will help delegates guide their organisation towards great performance and profitability.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
COURSE DETAILS
Length: 1 week
Price: £2990 (excl. VAT)
Dates
25 – 29 July 2016
24 – 28 October 2016
COURSE CONTENT
Role of strategic leadership
- The ability to anticipate, envision and empower others to action.
Creating Unique Value
· Create effective strategies even in the absence of valuable resources
· Why mission statements are so important
· Outsource strategies and considerations
· How greed and distrust destroy value
· What the characteristics of successful companies teach us about profitability
Foundations of Value Creation and Value Capture
- Combine resources, establish dynamic capabilities and sustain advantages
- What affects value creation from the consumer’s perspective
- Who captures the most value from innovation
Strategic Value Propositions
- Achieve a competitive advantage with a good business strategy
- Low cost strategy advantages and reconfiguring the value chain
- Ways to distinguish your firm’s value proposition from competitors
- Strategies for increasing consumer willingness to pay
Leading a vision
The essential skills of strategic leadership
Leading and managing change
Going Global
- How to manage and transfer competitive advantages in the global arena
- Strategies for balancing opportunity against opportunism when entering foreign markets
- What risks exist when entering a foreign market
- How to overcome market failure
- How to balance tradeoffs in managing a global business
LEARNING OUTCOME
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Develop a vision statement and relate goals to the vision.
- Implement the organisations vision by gaining the cooperation and support of staff.
- Align employee priorities and evaluate employee performance.
- Motivate employees and overcome employee apathy.
- Identify the phases of the change process and implement strategies to facilitate transition.
- Apply strategic thinking skills and tools to improve quality of decision making
- Lead strategic change by creating vision and appropriate change strategy
- Lead implementation by translating strategy into change projects and programmes
- Increase self knowledge and leadership influence to build trusting relationships
- Build high performing internal and multi agency teams
Make a positive impact by communicating effectively