CDGA

Advanced Effective Strategic Management Skills

Today’s successful senior manager is expected to create, manage and implement strategy effectively and efficiently to achieve an organization’s vision. This course utilizes the know-how to build on your experience and develop your talents and skills to achieve this objective. It includes strategic planning and its tools, implementing a strategy, budgeting and costing, developing effective systems and processes, managing people, managing change and managing risk. The wide-range of teaching styles of this dynamic, interactive training, uses up-to-date approaches, methods and techniques. This ensures the delegates learn in a way which is adapted to individual learning styles and requirements. Delegates work on and develop their personal learning outcomes throughout the training and understand how to apply practical lessons they have learned, as soon as they return to their organizations. This course will give emphasis on the management’s key role of setting the organization’s strategic direction. This course supports the development of highlevel strategy skills for middle to senior Managers wanting to gain or refresh their knowledge of strategic planning and increase confidence in the use of corporate planning tools and approaches. This may include the ability to align the organization’s internal capabilities to unpredictable external factors, which is crucial for success. Developing and implementing new ways to make your business more successful requires a structured approach. As a business leader, you need to understand the ever-changing business environment, make strategic choices about which direction to take, communicate this direction, and clarify how it will be executed. This course will help delegates to understand the global context in relation to their business, as well as develop skills and confidence to boost performance and enable them to develop and sustain their organization’s performance for the future.

The Training Course Will Highlight ?

This course will feature:

Review of business and economic context for your business
Tools and techniques used in strategy development
Use of strategic thinking: innovation approaches
How organizational culture supports or prevents innovation
Leadership qualities needed to inspire, motivate and engage with staff

Training Objective

By the end of this course, delegates will learn about:

Master the latest strategy frameworks
Develop your strategic thinking
Test and develop your strategy ideas in deep dive sessions
Map out your detailed execution plan
Strengthen your leadership and communication skills
Develop good Vision and Mission statements in support of strategy formulation
Carry out stakeholder analyses to enable management of diverse interests Relate leadership qualities to culture and strategy development
Develop a systems thinking view of organizations

Turn strategy into business and operational plans

Target Audience

Team Leaders, Managers, Superintendents, HR Officials, T&D Personnel, General Supervisors, Executives, Supervisors, Financial Officers and Controllers, Process Managers, Strategic Planning Managers, Key Personnel, OE Champions, Chief Executive Officers, Directors, Company Secretaries, Presidential Advisors, Ministerial Advisors, Board Advisors, Chief Financial Officers, Board Members, Heads of Department, Directors of Human Resources, Directors of Business Development, Strategic Advisors, Senior Managers, Project Directors, Engineers, any person needs to acquire managerial and leadership skills

Training Methods

Daily Agenda

The Strategizing Process

Why strategize: 21st century changes and challenges?
Psychological aspects of decision making
Strategic thinking: who, how, when & why
Examples of strategy success and failure
The functions and capabilities of a strategic manager
Culture and strategic choices

The Strategic Process

Impact of external change: competitive positioning, technology, regulation
Innovation: Blue v Red Ocean strategies
The strategy hierarchy
Realizing the strategies: making them happen
Recognizing & reacting to disruptive competition
Competitive positioning

Strategic Management Skills

Leadership theories & styles
Attributes of successful leaders
Strategic skills: traits or contextual
Visioning, communicating & framing
Team and organization perspectives on implementing strategies
Leading others through the strategic process

Leadership and Strategic Decision-Making

Importance of leadership in implementing successful strategies
High-profile leadership which inspires and motivates
Decisive, speedy and consistent decision-making
Persistent follow-through on all decisions to produce results

Managing the Culture

The significance of corporate culture
Facets of culture: the cultural web
The Leaders role in establishing the culture
Managing in a multi-cultural corporation
Impact of culture on strategy roll out
Challenges of mergers & acquisitions

Skills for Success

Communication, including: presentations, meetings, oral, listening, body language and written
Delegation to increase productivity
Negotiation and influencing skills for a win-win for all
Time management for minimum effort to produce maximum results

Tactics and Plans