The Strategic Leadership Course
Leveraging Strategic Management with Strategic Leadership – Taking a Deep Dive to Explore Practical & Relevant Solutions to Organizational Challenges
Programme description & objectives
The world and the business environment of corporate executives and senior managers has grown more complex by the day. The ability to successfully navigate the complex maze of daily business problems and challenges can only be achived through the combination of strategic management capabilities, laced with appropriate leadership skills and competences.
7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers of Human, Financial & Material Resources – Honing the Essential Skills to Ensure Improved Productivity
Programme description & objectives
The prevailing workplaces and offices of corporate organizations are typically fast-paced environments where supervisors and managers of human, financial, and material resources are constantly joggling numerous and often conflicting activities and tasks. These scenarios are not limited to one industry, one geographic location, one economic group or even one age group. They are common to all. Managers are constantly dropping the ball by missing profitability and efficiency targets due to competing priorities. Over time, the essentials of corporate goals and objectives are lost in the topsy-turvy and tension-soaked environment. Essentially, managers, supervisors, and the entire departments lack open communication and the team cohesiveness required for improved work output. Furthermore, crises are constantly recurring events and are often reacted to with fast, less-than-effective decisions.
Mastering Financial Negotiations
Program description & objectives
Every year millions of dollars change hands on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, alliances, management buyouts, share issues and financial restructuring. The high stakes, extreme time pressure and psychological stress involved in these negotiations can and does cause mistakes, misunderstandings and destroy potential deals. These deadlocks and stifled opportunities can and do result in money being left on the table. This course aims to provide insights into the methods adopted by outstanding negotiators with the aim that you will learn to reduce your risk of failure whilst at the same time greatly enhancing the potential of signing mutually beneficial agreements. Delegates to this program would learn contemporary best practices and strategies necessary in today’s competitive and dynamic environment.
Advanced Managerial & Leadership Skills for Executives
Program description & objectives
Delegates to this program are exposed to new tools structured to advance management skills. These tools are primarily targeted at improved employees’ performance by enhancing and increasing the skills of supervising managers, HODs and executives. It will further explore the possibility of increasing productivity through effective communication, team building, delegation and motivation.
The course is designed to be interactive in an effort to learn the key issues and principles that will help delegates build their capabilities and strengths. Each module will allow a significant time for scenario analysis, self-assessment, and debate of contemporary issues.
Enhanced Performance & Strategic Management Bootcamp
Programme description & objectives
This course will help delegates understand the full relevance of performance and strategic management. It will also focus on identifying factors that can impact an organisation’s performance, enable managers to plan for such factors, consider contingencies and evaluate resource levels as an ongoing process.
Policy Analysis, Leadership & Executives Management Seminar
Programme description & objectives
This program is structured such that delegates are taken through current macroeconomic policies in the context of leadership strategies. They will further be taken through the procedures for applying appropriate techniques, and for analyzing and managing sectoral policies and programmes. The seminar will also analyse the effects of leadership issues and changes in macroeconomic policies on different sectors of the economy and highlight the procedures for tracking developments in the implementation of sectoral policies.
Strategic Management for Senior Management Team – Keeping & Maintaining a Competitive Edge in a Rapidly Changing Global Economy
Programme description & objectives
Over time the world of the corporate senior manager has grown more complex. Competitive strategic advantage is now the turf on which the corporate battle is fought and won. In addition to this, cultural sensitivity and motivational management of employees has become a vital component of day-to-day business activity. Above all, senior managers are now expected to be leaders, team builders, coaches, and an inspiration to their staff, in addition to being the final decision makers and risk takers.
The course is designed to be interactive in an effort to learn the key issues and principles that will help delegates build their capabilities and strengths. Each module will allow a significant time for scenario analysis, self-assessment, and debate of contemporary issues.
Strategic Leadership Management
Programme description & objectives
Researches have shown that all organizations are filled with problems and that most of the problems are overly people-based and occur as a result of poor leadership. Same researches have also confirmed that organizations are vastly over-managed and desperately under-led. In these lights, the delivery of this program would essentially focus on initiatives and contemporary leadership approaches that would enable participants to improve their leadership skills and achieve more effective results as a manager and supervisors of human, material, knowledge, and financial resources
Effective Budgeting & Budgetary Control Strategies
Programme description & objectives
Aside from playing a vital role in creating and achieving a sound business strategy, this course shows how budgets can increase your everyday effectiveness. In particular, the course is structured to deliver on-the-job budgeting and regulatory control tools to participants. The program will also provide participants with techniques for preparing more accurate, realistic, and reliable estimates. Participants will develop higher skills in control and variance analysis devices that signal revenue, cost, and operations thresholds, pricing guidelines for products and services, planning and scheduling production and related costs, profit planning and the identification of looming problems.
Work & Stress Management – Essentials of a Healthy Work-Life Balance
Program Description
Stress is a normal psychological and physical reaction to the ever-increasing demands of life. An individual’s response to the demands of the world determines his or her stress level. Triggers of stress such as due bills, growing pile of papers on the desk, screaming children at home, etc. permeates the entire fabric of the average employee. It is undeniable — life is full of stress. This program is structured to view STRESS from both the medical and management points of view. It aims to ensure that delegates understand the types and sources of stress (big and small, short-term and long-term, internal and external).
The Strategic Leader – Strategic Planning, Negotiation and Conflict Management
Programme description & objectives
This seminar fuses the key strategic leadership skills of strategic planning, negotiation and conflict management required to succeed in today’s complex and challenging business environment. Strategy is complex, yet very simple when understood. Those who have a successful strategy are in control of (& can definitely shape) upcoming events. The implementation of strategies often requires the ability to exert influence and negotiate effectively. Negotiation and conflict management are key strategic management and leadership skills and are probably the single most used skills in business today. Divided into two modules of Strategy & Strategic Planning, and Negotiation & Conflict Management in Organizations, this seminar is structured to enable participants to:
Priority Management – Optimizing Time, Workflow & Productivity
Programme description & objectives
In an ever-increasing pace of life and business, it becomes even more important to remove stress and operate with heightened sensory insight. As the cost of stress to the employer continues to grow, organizations must recognize stress in their employees and train management to manage stress productively. A recent survey showed that 1 in 5 people report their work to be very or extremely stressful, citing the nature of their work, relationships at work or their employer as the cause.
Change Management – Challenges & Strategies for Public Institutions
Programme description & objectives
The business environment is experiencing major changes. Public and private organizations are going through profound transformations, occasioned by globalization, regulatory changes, privatization, instability of business environment, etc. The direct fallout of this is the need for organisations to develop competencies that will facilitate their response to these challenges and provide quality service to the public. This program is designed to equip participants with requisite skills to initiate, maintain and sustain change. Strategies for making far reaching changes and for improving organizational performance will also be examined.
Strategic Planning & Management of Organizational Change
Programme description & objectives
Organizational change has become the imperative for many organisations as they stare down failure and loss of business occassioned by the ongoing global crisis which has affected most organisations across sectoral divides. Yet driving such change is an immense difficulty. This program seeks to analyze the need for strategy in most organisations, and how they can set about planning one and implementing it. The program will further analyse and provide recommendations to the challenges that might be faced by organizations that are in the process or planning a change initiative. In the same vein, change management, as a challenge will be dissected, with copious examples from case studies involving international organisations and how some of them have been able to cope. This is an essential course for middle to senior management
Effective Team, Planning & Organizing Skills – Critical Inputs to Workload Management
Programme description & objectives
Effective planning and organizing skill is a must-have in today’s work environment where there never seem to be adequate work hours. Thus eventhough employees claim to be busy (and rightly so), it is however worthwhile to ensure they are busy “doing the right things efficiently and effectively”. Value-added must be quantifiable at the end of a day’s job.
This program is designed such that delegates will learn and practise good planning and organizing techniques that are targeted at producing quantifiable outputs.
Leading High Performance Teams – Fundamentals of Supervision and Management
Programme description & objectives
Successful teams are created when team leaders provide a sense of purpose, create an environment where team members are motivated and challenged, and where individuals feel their strengths and abilities are appreciated and positively utilized. Even more than these, where weaknesses are identified, channeled and converted to the benefit of the team and organization.
The program would aim to demonstrate that the role of an effective Team Leader is actually the cornerstone of many of the successful organizations.
Strategic Operations Planning and Management
Programme description & objectives
The important role that an effective operation planning activity plays cannot be overemphasised given the contending and stiff competition for priority and resources in the roll-out of services or products. In the light of this, the program would focus on the critical inputs to, and the essential contributors to a planning session.
The program would critically appraise and analyse the important concepts of resource planning, capacity planning and management, material requirement planning, etc. Considerations will also be given to factors to address when developing operations strategies and the issues of productivity and competitive advantage during the program delivery.
Corporate Governance, Leadership and Change Management
Programme description & objectives
This program focuses on the challenges facing modern-day executives and administrators who are saddled with varied issues concerning the optimal management of human and material resources in a rapidly changing environment. The aspect of corporate governance focuses on recent observations as regards the intricacies and interactions in the workplace and how to entrench solidly built and cross-functional institutions rather than the personification of offices/silo-styled functions.
Developing a Crisis Management Strategy – Preparing effectively the unexpected
Programme description & objectives
This course is designed to show delegates how to create a crisis management procedure that is both workable and flexible. By its very nature, a ‘crisis’ is something that usually happens unexpectedly. Then it has to be dealt with; often with limited, or inadequate, resources. Even companies that have crisis management procedures often find that when put to the real test, they are cumbersome and unworkable. This course uses case studies of different crises from the business and corporate world. It examines good and bad examples of crisis management and crisis mismanagement.
Strategic Change Management
Programme description & objectives
There are times when an organization must go through serious transformation. This essentially means the type of game-changing metamorphosis that requires corporate leaders to devise a new vision, which must then be adopted by staff members and ultimately, put into action. Change management is all about making transformation easier. The program would aim to demonstrate that transformational change is only possible using a structured process and approach that is orchestrated with a change management strategy. Successful organizational change requires a good plan and superb follow-through on execution. Change ultimately always affects people, so change management is truly about the individual and how to move them from denial and resistance to commitment and enthusiasm in as short a period as possible. By the end of the course, delegates will:
Creative Problem Solving & Decision Making – Using Creativity to Gain Competitive Edge
Programme description & objectives
This program is designed as a blend of tutor-led and experiential learning. It identifies the key concepts of creative thinking and problem solving. It is structured to give the delegates a range of versatile and effective techniques, backed up by well-researched course materials. This course would be an eye-opener for delegates seeking new answers to old problems, and for those in search of first time solutions to major new problems.
Putting Emotional Intelligence to Work – Psychology of Result-Oriented Leadership
Programme description & objectives
Workers in the present day work places have been researched to require greater self-awareness of their emotions and the ability to empathize and understand other people’s emotional states. It has been established that, with greater focus on emotional intelligence, teams will perform better and that organizations will achieve and record higher growth trends. In other words being emotionally intelligent makes a real difference to performance and, therefore, profit.Emotional intelligence training is not just a desirable “soft skill”, but also a better indicator of workplace performance than IQ. It gives very real and concrete benefits and should be an essential element of any staff development program. The under listed benefits are assured with EI:
Developing Effective Interpersonal & Communication Skills
Programme description & objectives
Effective interpersonal and communication skills are essential tools for today’s modern manager who operates in a multicultural and upwardly mobile work environment. They are essential elements for successful managers, and highly productive employees.
The Middle Manager Development Programme – Creating Future Leaders
Programme description & objectives
Programme description & objectives
Many middle professionals have a wealth of experience at handling day to day management issues and are now ready for even bigger challenges. This program is designed and structured to address those extra skills they need to acquire to prepare them for the next level of leadership? The programme is about exploring and mastering those skills and knowledge that will comfortably take the middle level manager to the next level of competence; i.e, from a professional to leader. Furthermore, the program will give participants a real insight into what drives individual behaviour, how to pinpoint the cultural style of your organisation and understand its inherent cultural strengths and weaknesses. In an effort to lock-in the benefits of this program, we will explore team dynamics in the context of culture, look at functional and dysfunctional behaviour and how dysfunctional behaviour can be reshaped. We will explore how easy it is for the leader to unwittingly set people up for failure and how this can be avoided. We will investigate motivation, reward and getting the best from the team.
Ethics, Accountability & Corruption Prevention
Programme description & objectives
The modern place work environment strives for high ethical standards in all functions and dealings with internal and external customers on one hand, and regulatory bodies and other stakeholders on the other. With these as a platform, delegates will learn contemporary aspects of ethics, accountability and anti corruption issues. The course will also delve into the tenets of integrity, the current developments on ethics, accountability and corruption, as well as methods of assessing corruption and relevant anti-corruption strategies that include (but not limited to) the identification and management of corruption and whistle blowing.
Leadership Competencies
Programme description & objectives
Researches have shown that all organizations are filled with problems and that most of the problems are overly people-based and occur as a result of poor leadership. Same researches have also confirmed that organizations are vastly over-managed and desperately under-led.
In these lights, the delivery of this program would essentially focus on initiatives and contemporary leadership approaches that would enable participants to improve their leadership skills and achieve more effective results as managers and supervisors of human, material, knowledge, and financial resources. The program would aim to demonstrate that the role of an effective leader is actually the cornerstone of many of the successful organizations.
Financial Awareness for the Non-Financial Persons
Programme description & objectives
Successful profit centre managers/revenue generators can be even more productive if they have a clear understanding of the financial and commercial considerations that impact on their business. This course is designed to fill this particular knowledge gap in a global market environment where managers and business owners cannot afford not to have the basics of financial expertise. The program is structured to take a practical and flexible view of financial matters and translates the jargon, conventions, and formats of accounting into simple, easy to understand, language. At the end of the program, delegates are expected to feel comfortable with using financial terminologies, and to have a clear understanding of what they mean, and how they impact on the bottom-line of the delegates’ businesses and workplaces.
Effective Workload Management
Programme description & objectives
Managing workloads is a topic that can make some crusty managers shake their heads and give you their favorite speech about how “People just aren’t tough enough any more”. Yet research has repeatedly revealed that managing workloads is an unexpected path to increased productivity.
One of the benchmarks of a successful organization is the efficiency of its processes and workflows. The smart organizations thus always look for ways to effectively manage workloads and improve productivity. The purpose of the program is hinged on assisting executives, business owners, managers and employees better plan for, and develop strategies to proactively manage and effectively address any workload issues that arise within a workplace or business unit.
Fundamentals of Supervision and Management
Programme description & objectives
This program is specially designed for to-be and newly promoted managers and supervisors. It is primed to help prepare them for higher responsibilities and make them better and effective managers. It would enable partcipants to master the basics of business by learning the language of management, make for a successful transition from employee to manager/supervisor, and also demonstrate proper time management strategies to help deal with the constant demands of a managerial job function.
Corporate Strategic Planning and Implementation
Programme description & objectives
This program is designed and geared towards providing leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximize their own and their team’s creative potential in a strategic context. On the other hand, a well-implemented strategic planning and formulation processes provide the vision, direction and goals for the organization. Here, it is expected that the operational implementation process translate strategies into the everyday execution tactics of the business that will ultimately produce the outcomes defined by the strategy. The focus of this program will be on thinking in different ways. Participants should be prepared to move out of their comfort zone and experiment with new ways of creating and communicating an inspiring strategic plan and leadership vision. Furthermore, efforts would be made to demystify the frequently misunderstood concept of ‘strategy’.
The Concept of Creative Leadership
Programme description & objectives
This program would essentially provide individual and professionals in leadership positions with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help in maximizing their creative leadership potentials. Researches have shown that most organizations are filled with problems and that most of the problems are overly people-based and occur as a result of poor leadership. Same researches have also confirmed that organizations are vastly over-managed and desperately under-led.