Creative Strategic Planning & Leadership

By the end of this training seminar, you 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 management issues
• Place your part of the organisation within the overall context of corporate strategy.
• Gain confidence in managing your contribution to strategic implementation

This training course uses a range of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual visioning exercises, case studies and syndicate discussions, to allow you to see and feel for yourself the power of the creative mind in a strategic context. Standard inputs are used to introduce a limited amount of underpinning theory. A crucial part of the learning process is sharing the differing experiences participants bring and experimenting with novel – and sometimes challenging – techniques. In the second module, the course leader will use case examples based on organisations he has been personally involved with. There will be additional presentations on DVD from world-leading authorities in strategy formulation and strategic management. There will also be group work on a significant case study.

• Leaders at all levels who can develop and communicate a shared vision
• Leaders who can engage and motivate their teams
• Increased effectiveness against personal KPI’s through more effective use of team
• Much better decision-making and time/resource allocation - leading to better organisational and individual performance
• Introduction of strategic thinking into new levels of the organisation
• Top management having more confidence in the ability and judgement of its operating managers and the staff will have a better appreciation of the need and content of organisational change

• Increasing career flexibility (vertically and horizontally)
• Accelerated thinking speed and problem resolution for complex dilemmas
• Improved understanding of the impact of operational specialisation on corporate strategy
• Improved team working capabilities in analysing and solving strategic problems creatively
• Enhanced skills in ensuring the most effective impact of individual specialisations
• Greater motivation through multiple organisational levels

This training course to a comprehensive range of professionals but will significantly benefit:

• Senior Management Professionals, Team Leaders, Supervisors and All Professionals responsible for driving company growth by creating or eliciting new ideas and paradigms. Alternatively, you may be stuck with your own ‘logical’ career journey and seeking an opportunity to explore beyond its boundaries.
• Anyone who wants to forge innovative approaches to communications or to human resource and training managers searching for breakthrough ideas and tools they can use to harness the creativity in others within their organisation