Enterprise Leadership for Transformation

Course Introduction

This Enterprise Leadership for Transformation training course champions business leaders to develop growth capabilities. The training course facilitates leaders of small and medium enterprises to develop business plans that will grow their business to the next level. As you have built a business you passionately care for, you will want to prepare it for the growth it deserves. However, you may have seen or heard of some businesses that seem to have everything going for them and yet they suddenly run into problems.

One of the most common problems for business owners is that they have trouble growing their business. It is not just about managing a cashflow. It is also about putting in place a strategic growth plan to overcome business challenges. This training course will help you define and implement the vision you have for yourself and your business. Working from an initial understanding of your own capabilities, motivators, and resources, it will build a strategic growth plan for moving you and those around you towards a shared perception of the future, able to respond to an ever-changing world. Those participating in this course will have the opportunity to learn from best practices, leverage their strengths, and build on growth ambitions.

This Enterprise Leadership for Transformation training course will highlight:

• Growth Aspiration & Vision
• Building Capability for Growth
• Innovation and Technology
• New Markets
• Strategic Review and Growth Plan

Objectives

At the end of this Enterprise Leadership for Transformation training course, you will learn to:

• Drive change, especially in the areas of productivity and innovation
• Strengthen and adapt your business strategy for long-term growth
• To identify, assess and develop new market segments
• Boost talent management strategies to attract, retain and uplift workforce
• Identify strategies to go digital as a key asset for future growth

Training Methodology

This Oxford Management Centre training course is highly interactive and practical. Participants learn through a range of teaching and personal development methods including presentations, tutorials, real life case studies, worked examples, short team exercises and video presentations. Active participation and involvement are encouraged throughout the training course to promote the sharing of ideas and expertise within the group

Organisational Impact

The Organisation will achieve stronger strategic growth and market development means greater growth potential:

• See the “big picture” and areas of potential growth
• Strategically think, plan, and implement growth opportunities
• Understand critical success factors need for success
• Use their wider market knowledge to make better decisions
• Understand how actions and decisions impact key company development
• Effectively communicate ideas to other employees and customers

Personal Impact

From this Enterprise Leadership for Transformation training course, participants will gain the following benefits;

• Achieve successful strategic implementation
• Are mindful of the implications and consequences of different choices
• Have an acute perception of the business issues
• Can make sense out of complexity and make provision for an uncertain future
• Are bold, courageous, and decisive
• Are flexible if further change is warranted in the future

Who Should Attend?

This Enterprise Leadership for Transformation training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Business Owners
• Senior personnel
• Human Resource Managers
• Professional involved in strategic development
• Production & Marketing responsibilities

Course Outline

DAY 1

Courage and Leadership

• Courage & self-knowledge
• Behaviour, values and beliefs
• Leadership styles
• Limiting thoughts & behaviours
• Business Model explained
• Putting yourself on the line

DAY 2

Building Capability for Growth

• Who are our customers?
• What do they want?
• Review of the marketplace
• How to leverage data to enrich your business.
• Key business functions like finance and human resources
• Review of your business operations and how to optimise them for greater long-term growth.

DAY 3

Strategic Formulation

• Vision and mission statements - preparing for the future
• Competitive positioning vs blue sky approaches
• Achieving competitive advantage through flexibility and agility
• Gathering information and intelligence
• Strategic intent, strategic choice and balancing scorecards
• Converting the SWOT analysis into the “strategy matrix”
• Strategy formulation – programmes, projects, policies
• Transforming the organization - strategy implementation and managing change

DAY 4

Innovation and Technology

• How our thinking works in respect of creativity and innovation
• Apply the more fluid style to the left and right hemispheres of the brain
• Methods of testing ideas for practicality and relevance
• Overcoming the obstacles to creativity in the mind and in the working environment
• Problem solving and decision making
• Digitalisation and its related technologies that can empower your business

DAY 5

Strategic Implementation and Growth Plan

• The strategy lifecycle and the problem of strategic drift
• Getting innovative thinking into the organization
• The potentially negative dimensions of success
• How to avoid 'paralysis by analysis'?
• Overcoming inability to evaluate fresh ideas and denying the truth
• The critical importance of good planning team dynamics