Module 1: Strategy Excellence: From Strategic Vision to Tactical Execution
Day One: Understanding Strategy and Strategy Execution
- Defining and Understanding of Strategy
- Linking Strategy to Action
- Setting Long Term Organisational Destination – Strategy is about Where are you Heading
- Strategy Documentation, Communication and Duration
- Defining Strategy and Operational Effectiveness – What is the difference?
- Barriers and Success Factors related to Strategy Execution including Leadership and Culture
Day Two: From Vision to Results: The Planning and Execution Framework
- Understanding the distinction between Strategy, Operations and Tactics
- How Planning and Execution Work
- Impact of Mission and Vision Statements on Strategic Planning
- Mission Analysis and Mission Leadership
- Measuring Progress and Results
- The Gap between Strategy and Performance
Day Three: Turning Strategy into Actionable Plan
- Invisibility of Performance Bottlenecks to Top Management
- Under Performance Culture Impact on Strategy and Performance Gap
- How to close the strategy and performance gap
- The Four Successful Steps in Turning Strategy into Actionable Plan
- Building A Strategy – Focused Organisation (SFO)
- The Six Loop Strategy Execution System including the Office of Strategy Management (OSM)
Day Four: Understanding the Meaning of Performance Measurements and Management
- Why do we need Performance Management System?
- Characteristics of Good Measures
- The Balanced Scorecard
- Defining Critical Success Factors
- Organisational Excellence
- How to Develop and Standardise Performance Metrics
Day Five: Implementing a Successful Performance Management System
- Gaining Management Commitment and Selecting a Winning Team
- Planning for Success – Strategic Business Planning Framework
- Performance Contract Framework
- The usage of charts in presenting effective reports
- Complete exercise on how to develop a Balanced Scorecard from scratch
- Conclusion and Wrap Up
Module 2: Effective Organisational Leadership
Day Six: Understanding Organisational Leadership
- Defining Leadership in an Organisation
- Key behavioural factors in Leadership
- Leading in the modern world: VUCA
- Understanding strategic, operational and tactical leadership
- Leading Change in an organisation
- Leadership assessment: Strategic, Operational, Tactical
Day Seven: Vision and Strategy: Strategic Leadership
- Characteristics of Strategic Leaders
- Strategic data and planning factors
- Developing Strategy: Mission or Mantra?
- Building your Leadership brand
- Inspirational engagement and influence
- Communicate and cascading Strategy to gain buy-in
Day Eight: Implement & Perform: Tactical Leadership
- Characteristics and behaviours of Tactical Leaders
- Tactical Intelligence data and planning
- Managing performance and motivation
- Understanding Team Dynamics
- Building Team cohesiveness
- Coach and engage for success
Day Nine: Linking Strategic to Tactical: Operational Leadership
- Characteristics and requirements of Operational Leaders
- Mastering Operational Management principles
- Linking strategic goals to tactical objectives
- Managing key stakeholders: Cross-departmental cooperation
- Managing Operational Meetings
- Turning negative ideas in to positive achievements
Day Ten: Creating the Leadership Organisation
- Creating an organisational culture
- Developing a collaborative vision and strategy
- Continuous improvement for organisational success
- Working across boundaries: Virtual leadership
- Collaborative Organisation: Group exercise
- Action Planning & Next steps