This workshop introduces the principle of strategy and develops an effective process for developing strategy at all levels in an organisation. This workshop will also focus on the critical roles of team leader and middle manager in harnessing their team's potential, and introduces and practices techniques for moving the team to peak performance.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Define and to demystify the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’, but also to demystify the strategic process - as part of ‘Helicopter Thinking’
Break the strategy process down step-by-step, providing a practical toolkit for managers for each key stage
Illustrate it through some well-chosen and highly stimulating case studies - and to distill the lessons from this
Apply it to their area of management responsibility - through planning the analysis, option generation, choice, implementation and measurement phases of strategy
Put this within the overall context of the organization and the change and influencing process generally
Give more confidence in managing their role strategically within their organization
Understand their role as a manager and a leader
Establish clear objectives and standards of performance for your team and to manage and use conflict and challenge
Gain better decision-taking and time and resource allocation - leading to better organizational and individual performance
Use of a well-proven planning process
Head of departments
Managers among all managerial levels
Supervisors & Team leaders
Employees & persons who are interested in gaining this great knowledge
What are strategy and strategic planning?
Why are strategy and strategic planning important?
What are the main conceptual frameworks?
External analysis - understanding and analyzing business attractiveness - macroenvironmental factors, growth drivers, competitive forces, market dynamics
Benchmarking your own strategic position/competitor analysis
Analyzing customers
“Thinking backward from the customer”
Mini-case on importance of external analysis
The interface of external and internal analysis
Internal analysis: financial
Internal analysis; non-financial
The concept and practicalities of the “balanced scorecard”
Diagnosing strategic problems and opportunities
Fusion of analyses into strategic choices - SWOT and the strategy matrix
Case examples of strategic choice
Mini-case on importance of internal analysis
Review of the tools used so far
The content of a strategy: avoiding “paralysis by analysis”
Putting a strategic plan together – the 5-page framework
A real-life example of a business strategy/strategic plan
Strategies for alliances and joint ventures
Example of best practice in alliances and joint ventures
The essence of globalization and global strategy
Globalization – the strategic dimension
Globalization – the organizational dimension
Globalization – the human dimension
How to build and manage a strategic planning team
Communicating strategy through the organization
Gaining your team’s commitment and buy-in to the strategy
Effective execution - converting strategic analysis and planning into action
Linking strategy with operational objectives
Implementation – getting practical things done
Strategic planning of your career
Creating tomorrow’s organization out of today’s organization
Conclusion - the corporate and individual value of strategic thinking
Teams, leaders, and managers
Key leadership tasks
Influence, authority and power
Leadership styles and style flexibility
Self-awareness
Emotional intelligence and rapport
Creating a shared vision
Aims, objectives and goal alignment
Developing meaningful objectives and indicators
Divergent approaches to problem-solving
Communicating a compelling vision
Delivering challenging messages
Team development
The sociology of the team
Characteristics of high-performing teams
Balancing team roles
Non-traditional team structures
Delegation and empowerment
Learning and competence
Building a coherent team
Self-managing teams and their challenges
Coaching, mentoring, and self-directed learning
Feedback and appraisal
Leveraging team strengths for peak performance
Defining performance
Approaches to measuring team and individual performance
The world is packed with information; and most organizations struggle to recognize what information they have, why they need it, how long they need it for, and if it has any value. Furthermore, changes in the law, such as the recent changes in the UAE employment law, often call for tighter controls on contract documentation, and lead to a need for enhanced management of human resource and contract records. In addition, electronic information is under threat from cyber-attack and personal information is at risk of exposure. As such, the development and implementation of a records management program that includes document control methods to identify, secure, and protect critical information, is necessary for every organization.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
Self-mastery is not achieved by accident - it is a process that occurs as we interact effectively with the events and circumstances of our lives. Each moment of our lives provides an opportunity to practice self-mastery by expanding our visions, awakening the faculties of our minds and our hearts, and assuming full responsibility for living, growing, and contributing. As we master our own emotions, we can enhance our ability to lead others, acting as a role model and someone others would truly wish to follow. Through this program, you will learn a great deal about yourself – how you think, how you perceive the world and how others perceive you, how you communicate and how you can enrich your communication skills - and through that process, you will learn how to lead others with great skill.
Great achievers have always performed well by managing themselves and their capabilities. Self-management is critical for individuals to perform efficiently in both large and small businesses where they are called to perform various duties. Self-management inspires individuals to set their own goals, monitor their behavior in achieving those goals and reward themselves upon their success in achieving those goals. Self-management is the building block for effective management of other people, groups, and organizations. This highly participative seminar will help you to develop your leadership skills to lead others in times of crisis, pressure and stress. You will obtain the latest insights into what makes a leader able to manage themselves and others during times of crisis. Self-mastery is not achieved by accident - it is a process that occurs as we interact effectively with the events and circumstances of our lives. Each moment of our lives provides an opportunity to practice self-mastery by expanding our visions, awakening the faculties of our minds and our hearts, and assuming full responsibility for living, growing, and contributing. As we master our own emotions, we can enhance our ability to lead others, acting as a role model and someone others would truly wish to follow.
Implementing an anti-bribery management system (ABMS) based on ISO 37001 has a number of advantages, including helping the organization avoid or reduce the costs, risks, and damage of being involved in bribery, fostering trust and confidence, encouraging due diligence and morally righteous business practices, etc. You must have the knowledge and abilities necessary to establish, implement, manage, maintain, and continuously enhance an ABMS in order to reap these benefits for your firm. The ISO 37001 Lead Implementer training course is where you should be for that. The training program aims to give participants a thorough understanding of ISO 37001 requirements as well as the best methods and techniques for setting up and maintaining the management system.
Through risk management, decision-making, and performance improvement utilizing ISO 31000 criteria, participants in the ISO 31000 Lead Risk Manager training course may help a company create and protect value by developing their competencies in these areas. It offers details on the fundamental components, the efficient use of a risk management framework, the use of the risk management process, and the steps required for the proper integration of these components to achieve corporate goals. Additionally, it offers recommendations for the choice and use of methods for evaluating risks in a variety of circumstances.