Introduction to the course
This KC Academy Creative Strategic Planning & Leadership training course is designed to provide leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximise 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 the world of business.
The focus of the first week of this 2-week Management & Leadership training course 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 successful strategy is based, it centres 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.
The highlights of the 10-day training course are as follows:
- Demonstrating how to balance analytical and creative thinking in plans and decisions
- Understanding how to discover and focus the innovative capabilities of teams and individuals
- Understanding the linkage between operational and strategic management
- Aligning your responsibilities and objectives with the strategy of your organisation
- Improving personal leadership and management competencies
This training course is split into two modules:
MODULE I - Leading Creatively
MODULE II - Strategy & Strategic Planning
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
Daily Agenda
MODULE I: Leading Creatively:
DAY 1:
Creative Problem-Solving
- 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
DAY 2:
Overcoming Personal Blockers to Creativity
- 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
DAY 3:
Developing The Vision Creatively
- Six Thinking Hats
- Using Differing Thinking Styles
- JoHari’s Window
- The Business Plan Process & Creating A Vision
- Harnessing The Power of The Team
- Organisational Culture and Its Influence on Innovation
- Letting Go of The Ego
- Working with Different Creative Preferences
DAY 4:
Communicating The Vision Creatively
- The 7 Step 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
DAY 5:
From Ideas to Action: Creativity and Change
- Motivation - Hierarchy of Needs
- Overcoming Organisational 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
MODULE II: Strategy & Strategic Planning:
DAY 6:
Strategic Thinking and External Analysis
- Definitions of Strategy and Strategic Planning
- Why are strategy and strategic planning important?
- Understanding The Main Frameworks For Strategic Analysis
- Private and Public Sector Strategies – similarities and differences
- External Analysis - Understanding and Analysing Business Attractiveness
- Analysing Customers and Benchmarking Your Own Strategic Position
- How attractive is the game that we have chosen to play?
DAY 7:
Internal Analysis and Fusion into Strategic Choice
- The Interface and Balance of External and Internal Analysis
- Internal Analysis: Financial
- Internal Analysis: Non-financial
- The Concept and Practicalities of the “Balanced Scorecard”
- Diagnosing and Analysing Strategic Problems and Opportunities
- Fusion of Analysis into Strategic Choices - SWOT and The Strategy Matrix
- How well are we playing the game that we have chosen to play?
DAY 8:
Strategic Plans and The Relevance of Alliances and Joint Ventures
- 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
- Management of Alliances and Joint Ventures
- Examples of Best Practice in Alliances and Joint Ventures
DAY 9:
Global Strategy, Team Building and The Management of Internal Communication
- The Essence of Globalisation and Global Strategy
- Globalisation – The Strategic Dimension
- Globalisation – The Organisational Dimension
- Globalisation – The Human Dimension
- How to Build and Manage a Strategic Planning Team
- Communicating Strategy through The Organisation
- Gaining Your Team’s Commitment and Buy-in to The Strategy
DAY 10:
Strategic Implementation and Getting The Value Out of Strategy
- Alignment of Strategy, Culture, Structure and People
- Effective Execution - Converting Strategic Analysis and Planning into Action
- Aligning and Linking Strategy with Operational Objectives
- Implementation – Getting Practical Things Done
- Creating Tomorrow’s Organisation Out of Today’s Organisation
- Strategic Planning at A Personal Level
- Overview: The Complete Strategy Process
- Summary and Conclusions - The Corporate and Individual Value of Strategic Planning
Professional certificate & Accreditation
In today's multidimensional work environment, leaders need to maximise their creative and strategic potential. KC Academy's 10-Day "Creative Strategic Planning & Leadership" training course equips leaders with a set of transformational tools and techniques that will create transformational change in the workplace.