An Intensive 10-day Training Course

The Complete Strategy and
Leadership Professional

DAILY AGENDA

Module 1: Strategy and 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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