An Intensive 10-day Training Course
The Strategy and High Impact Leadership Programme
Strategic Approaches for The Leader of Tomorrow
Course Introduction
In a shrinking world, all organizations and their managers are constantly being buffeted by unexpected twists and turns that call on them to react quickly, effectively and strategically. This Oxford Management & Leadership training Course on The Strategy and High Impact Leadership Programme will provide participants with the confidence, competence and tools to face and be proactive in making the changes necessary to add value to all stakeholders. It will expose you to tried and trusted state-of-the-art strategies to meet the rising expectations of external stakeholders and the new generation of employees.
This Oxford training Course explores the principles of strategic leadership ability to help you develop an approach at all levels of your organisation to build a new culture that embraces challenges and change.
This OXFORD Management & Leadership training Course on The Strategy and High Impact Leadership Programme will also focus on the critical roles of team leader and middle manager in harnessing their team's potential, and introduces and practices techniques for moving the organisation and the teams from average to excellence.
This training Course will highlight:
- Your personal capacity for strategic leadership
- Exercising leadership more effectively for high-impact interventions
- Developing and motivating your team for peak performance
- Using strategic thinking to deal with resistance to leadership and change
- Getting ahead of the curve – being courageous and more proactive
- Creating an agile work environment
- Learning how to apply the best practices from some of the world’s most admired organizations
- Leveraging the talent of the Millennial generation
- Challenging assumptions
- Using measurement to build accountability for continuous improvement
Modules
This course is split in two modules:
Module 1: Leading for Strategic Success
Module 2: Leading for Organisational Impact
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
Objectives
At the end of this training course, you will learn to:
- Apply better approaches to leadership and strategic management
- Develop resilience and adaptability in responding to change and uncertainty
- Recognise and respond more effectively to your leadership opportunities and challenges
- Understand and apply leadership practices from some of the world’s most admired organizations
- Transform your organisation to embrace opportunities and challenges
- Develop your team to deliver value-added continuous improvement
Training Methodology
This Management & Leadership training course on The Strategy and High Impact Leadership Programme style sessions will provide participative and engaging experience of a range of proven leadership and strategy models, methods and tools. High impact group work, exercises, situational simulations, individual feedback and case studies supported by both facilitators’ international experience with world class organizations. There will be opportunities to apply the learning to the participant’s own circumstances.
This course introduces a strategic management system - a complete framework to help you lead the strategy for your organisation. You also create your own personal action plan to help develop teams so the learning can be extended and shared beyond the Course.
Organisational Impact
You will develop new approaches to leadership and strategic management to help build a more effective and successful organisation by:
- Developing a greater capability for leadership
- Contributing to the achievement of breakthrough organisational performance
- Developing the ability of managers to make good judgment quickly
- Increasing enthusiasm to tackle challenges
- Measuring outcomes to ensure accountability and improve employee performance
- Increase collaborative problem solving and innovation
- Creating a values-based environment that rewards accountability and respect
Personal Impact
You will develop a new appreciation of your capacity for leadership through:
- Leading more effectively and resiliently
- Guiding your team to a desired future
- Understanding the strategic impact of your current role
- Contributing to stakeholder benefits in meaningful and measurable ways
- Applying practical, proven tools and techniques to real-world situations
- Redesign your team structure to drive increased value
Who Should Attend?
This OXFORD Management & Leadership training Course on The Strategy and High Impact Leadership Programme will benefit manager’s thirst for a new ways to tackle traditional organizational ills. It is suitable to a wide range of experienced professionals and will be of particular benefit to:
- General Managers and Heads of Department
- Project, Programme, or Portfolio, Managers who need a more strategic view
- Front-line managers under pressure to do more with less
- Senior Managers charged with transforming their department or division
- Human Resource Professionals who need to be up to date on good leadership practice
Course Outline
Module 1: Leading for Strategic Success
Day 1
The Current Context of Leadership
- Definitions of Leadership
- Double Loop Learning
- Rational and Non-rational Approaches
- Leadership of Groups and Organisations
- Transformational Change
Day 2
Alignment: Linking Strategy to Operations
- Overview of a Strategic Management System
- Measuring Results
- Foundations for Success: Strategic Leadership
- Business Process Management Concepts
- Describing and Realizing Improvements using Process Models
Day 3
Analysing and Solving Complex Problems
- The Difference between Simple and Complex Problems
- Understanding Complexity
- Solving Complex Problems with Systems Thinking
- Creative Thinking Techniques
- Analysing, Preparing and Winning Arguments
Day 4
Planning for Success
- The Difference between Good Strategy and Bad Strategy
- Making a Business Case
- Group Decision Making and Change
- Evidence-based Management – what really works?
- Case Study Briefing
Day 5
Overcoming Execution Problems – Useful Tools and Techniques
- Managing Human Factors in Business Performance
- Test your Leadership – practical case study
- Overcoming Bias and Understanding Psychology to Get Results
- Individual Plans and Presentations
- Commitment to Action
Module 2: Leading for Organisational Impact
- A New View of Leadership: The Role of the Coach
- Leadership Styles: The Importance of Context
- Essential Ingredients of a High-Performance Organization
- Attracting the Best Talent: Benchmark Practices
- Understanding Future New-Hires: Welcoming the Age of Millennials
- Moving to a Values-Based from a Policies & Procedures Based We Environment
- Creating and Leveraging an Environment Based on Trust
- Changing your Measurement System to Build Commitment and Enthusiasm
- Building a Model for Influencing Change: Lessons from the Eagle
- Understanding and Leveraging your Power
Certificate
Oxford Management Centre Certificate will be provided to delegates who successfully completed the training course.
Accreditation
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