This course is designed to provide leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximize their own and their team’s creative potential in a strategic context. Its starting-point is self-discovery: participants will work on the inside first and then focus outwards to impact on the world of business.
The focus of the first week of this 2-week seminar will be on thinking in different ways. Participants should be prepared to move out of their comfort zone and experiment with new ways of creating and communicating an inspiring leadership vision.
The second week helps demystify the frequently-misunderstood concept of ‘strategy’. Whilst focusing on the analytical disciplines on which a successful strategy is based, it centers on strategic planning as a value-adding process that harnesses the leader’s and the team’s ability to combine analysis with creative thinking and enables ideas and plans to be nurtured through to reality.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential.
Communicate your vision in refreshing and engaging ways.
Define the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’.
Understand and explain visionary thinking as part of the strategic process and apply strategic planning to your own management issues.
Place your own part of the organization within the overall context of corporate strategy.
Gain confidence in managing your own contribution to strategic implementation.
Head of departments
Mangers among all managerial levels
Supervisors & Team leaders
Project managers
Leadership reality assessment
Leadership VS Management
Understanding our brain function
Myths of creativity
The limitations of the rational
Divergent approaches to problem-solving
Letting go of logic
Analogous thinking modes
Convergent and divergent modes
Sigmoid Curve - Lifecycle Model
Continuous improvement
Breakthrough step change
Self-awareness and the nature of the ego
Personal goal alignment
Adaption and innovation: personal preferences for creating meaning
Exploring attitudes to risk
Left- and right-brain thinking
Six thinking hats
Using differing thinking styles
JoHari’ window
The business plan process & creating a vision
Harnessing the power of the team
Organizational culture and its influence on innovation
Letting go of the ego
Working with different creative preferences
The 7 Steps Creative Process
Models of communication
Viral visioning
Authenticity and trust
Creativity tools, techniques & strategy
Letting go of the vision
Leading without directing
Possible leadership beliefs
Motivation - Hierarchy of Needs
Overcoming organizational barriers to creativity and change
Nurturing a learning environment
Is Money a motivator?
Personality Profiling
Building a creative consensus
Engaging stakeholders creatively
Influencing and motivating through change
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 - macro-environmental factors, growth drivers, competitive forces, market dynamics
Benchmarking your own strategic position/competitor analysis
Analyzing customers
“Thinking backward from the customer”
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
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 own career
Creating tomorrow’s organization out of today’s organization
Conclusion - the corporate and individual value of strategic thinking
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
In every organization, care is taken to manage risks, by seeking to eliminate those that can be removed, and reducing and managing the remainder. Part of this process involves developing robust contracts which apportion risk equitably and include a structure of indemnities with contractors, supported by a comprehensive insurance regime. In addition, it is important that contract personnel understand contractual risks and what insurance can (and cannot) do to remove the financial consequences of such risk; always remembering that insurance only mitigates the effect of risk, it does not make the risk itself go away.
A truth about life is our interdependence. Everything we accomplish within an organization is through the efforts of people working together. In spite of our technological advances, our competitive advantage lies in our ability to work effectively with other people.
This course is designed to provide leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximize their own and their team’s creative potential in a strategic context. Its starting-point is self-discovery: participants will work on the inside first and then focus outwards to impact on the world of business.
A company plan gives the entire organization a vision and a course to follow. All employees inside a corporation must have distinct objectives and adhere to the organization's direction or mission. This vision can be provided by a strategy, which also keeps people from losing sight of the objectives of their organization.
Inspirational leadership is a highly creative and intrinsically interpersonal activity to which people positively respond. As a leadership style, it demands that leaders employ their strengths with effect, where behaviors and values are paramount and where trust is established. This structured program seeks to explore the personal traits that make leaders inspirational in the context of their organization's strategy and culture. It offers a learning experience in which tools and techniques are employed to build leadership capability and a strategic response to the challenges of the role.