Become an innovator, persuasive leader, and champion of strategic change. This intensive seminar provides the practice and tools needed to close the gap between your current leadership position and where you aspire to be. You will conduct a SWOT analysis, identify key prospects for strategic opportunities, and foster a culture of innovation and risk-taking throughout your organization.
Make your mark by gaining the skills to add significant value to your organization and move your team forward decisively toward strategic objectives.
Who Should Attend:
Managers with fewer than five years of management experience who are ready to transition into more strategic roles and expand their leadership impact.
How You Will Benefit:
- Inspire and direct your team to greater readiness and competitiveness in your market
- Apply strategic thinking to add organizational value by understanding customer needs and expectations
- Anticipate changes and innovate strategies that connect strategic vision to core capabilities
- Identify opportunities to influence others and create strategic alliances
- Use strategic thinking to recognize key strengths and weaknesses within your work group
- Encourage and support risk-taking and innovation at all organizational levels
- Develop persuasive communication skills to effectively sell strategic ideas to stakeholders
What You Will Cover:
Developing and Balancing Operational and Strategic Management Skills
- Establish a clear working definition of operational management
- Explore the key attributes that define today's strategic leaders
Creating a Strategic Frame of Reference
- Understand the key components of the strategic leadership model
- Develop a strategic leader's approach tailored to your work environment
Understanding Your Current Operational Mission: Your Team, Your Customers, and Your Competitors
- Practice strategic thinking: moving from a limited context to a broader perspective
- Apply SWOT analysis to your team and operational environment
- Create a mission statement defining the operational reality of your work group
Developing a Strategic Vision: Moving from What Is to What If
- Identify priority issues that create your competitive strategic advantage
- Encourage innovative solutions from your team
- Prepare a draft vision statement for your organization or department
Making Your Vision a Reality: Influencing Key Stakeholders
- Develop persuasive skills and techniques
- Explore multiple options for effectively influencing decision-makers and others
Your Personal Plan: Developing and Selling Your Vision of the Future
- Master communication strategies to sell your strategic plan internally
- Conduct key conversations that encourage innovation and risk-taking
Course Outline:
Learning Objectives
- Encourage managers and employees at all levels to think strategically
- Foster an environment where employees actively participate in developing and pursuing the organizational strategic vision
- Prompt participants to continually ask themselves, "What can I do to contribute?" and, as a group, "Where are we going?"
Lesson One: Developing and Managing Your Operational Management and Strategic Leadership
- Define operational management and distinguish it from strategic leadership
- Identify key attributes of strategic leaders
- Determine how to balance operational and strategic skills
- Assess your current leadership skill strengths
Lesson Two: Creating a Strategic Frame of Reference and Understanding Your Current Operational Mission
- Describe the components of a strategic frame of reference
- Define key outputs and outcomes
- Develop a strategic leader's approach for your organization
- Clarify the purpose and mission of your work group
- Draft a comprehensive mission statement
- Create a detailed SWOT analysis
Lesson Three: Developing a Strategic Vision and Moving from "What Is" to "What If"
- Assess customer needs, wants, and expectations
- Determine effective approaches for collecting customer data
- Use an importance and performance matrix
- Create linkage between the organizational mission and vision
- Describe the power of compelling vision in driving change
Lesson Four: Making Your Vision a Reality, Influencing Innovation, and Your Personal Plan
- Apply persuasive communication skills
- Describe and practice multiple influencing options
- Assess your ability to encourage and support innovation
- Conduct five key conversations that drive results
- Complete a comprehensive strategic frame of reference
- Prepare to communicate mission and vision statements
- Identify and practice key conversations planned for return to work
- Consolidate your personal action plan
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
