This training course is split into two modules:
- Module I - Strategy and Strategic Planning
- Module II - Leadership Agility
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Modules I, and II back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
DAILY AGENDA
Module I: 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 II: 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
Certificate
- On successful completion of this training course, KC Academy Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.