An Intensive 10-day Training Course

The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional

DAILY AGENDA

Module 1: Strategy & Strategic Planning
DAY 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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
  • Strategies for alliances and joint ventures
  • Management of alliances and joint ventures
DAY 4: 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 5: 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
Module 2: Leadership Agility
DAY 6: Becoming an Agile Leader
  • Changing face of Leadership in the modern world
  • What is Agile? AGILE principles and Manifesto
  • Developing an Agile mindset, behaviours and characteristics
  • Understanding Organisational Agility
  • Organisational Models in Business
  • Mastering Change
DAY 7: Strategic, Operational and Tactical Factors
  • Defining Strategy, Operational and Tactical leadership
  • Strategy models and principles
  • Organisational Data collection and planning
  • Challenging ‘normal’: the Alternative Box
  • Setting the Behaviours and Values needed in the organisation
  • Creating the Vision V Mantra: ensuring buy-in from all
DAY 8: Organisational Development and Performance
  • The importance of Organisational Development and Strategy
  • Identifying your Talent for future growth: models and principles
  • Competency Frameworks and Behaviours
  • Utilizing Performance Management Systems
  • Development Options to increase organisational excellence
  • Succession Planning and OCR techniques
DAY 9: Building Strong Strategic Relationships
  • Why Building relationships matters in business
  • Strategic and Customer Relationship Management
  • Key Stakeholder Planning
  • Power and Influence mapping
  • Networking: techniques to improve relations
  • Using Data analysis to inform the business
DAY 10: Achieving the Organisational Excellence Culture
  • What is Culture?
  • Creating a culture of Organisational Excellence
  • Gaining support from others
  • Review of Operational Excellence models and comparison
  • Implement and embed Organizational Excellence in business
  • Summary and Review

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There are no prerequisites. Our courses are open to students of all backgrounds who are 18 years of age and older. All courses are conducted in English. Video lectures include English subtitles and the option to slow-down, pause, or replay lectures for better retention. Discussion boards are a critical component of each of our courses; therefore, we suggest students have a conversational knowledge of English when pursuing a Certificate of Completion. For any of the art writing courses, students need to be 100% proficient in written English.

How many students are in a course? Who will be my classmates?

Our classes are kept small, at no more than 30 students, to better facilitate and encourage personalized interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Your classmates come from all over the globe and contribute their global perspectives and experience. Some are currently working within the arts while others are just beginning. All classmates share in their passion for the art world.

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