Day One: Strategic Analysis and Strategic Thinking
- What strategy ‘is’ and what it ‘is not’
- The importance of understanding stakeholder interests
- Which tool to use and when
- Understanding Life cycles: Business, Product, Market
- Tools to understand the business environment
- Achieving business sustainability, the value chain
Day Two: Strategy, Innovation and Adaptability
- The process of strategy development
- Tools to imagine possible futures
- Research showing how CEO’s apply the tools
- Zooming In (detail) - Zooming Out (big picture)
- Selecting different types of innovation
- The process of innovation - managing failures and successes
Day Three: Key Leadership Skills: Communications
- Are Vision, Mission and Values just words?
- The impact of organisational culture on strategy implementation
- Communicating internally & externally
- Making effective use of communication channels
- How good are your persuasion, influence & negotiation skills?
- Addressing the challenge of virtual communications
Day Four: Strategic Implementation: Tracking Progress
- Using measures to track progress
- Using the Balanced scorecard as a strategic tool
- What are Critical Success Factors?
- Selecting useful Key Performance Indicators
- Do measures have an impact on actions?
- Translating data into information - useful reporting
Day Five: Team Leadership
- The roles & responsibilities of team leaders
- Motivating individuals and teams
- Engaging with staff for mutual benefit
- Team communications: meetings
- Evaluating effectiveness of different communication channels
- Personal action planning