Chrome Consultants

Policy Analysis, Leadership & Executives Management Seminar

Programme description & objectives

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.

Venues, Dates & Cost

VenuesDublinLondonDubaiEdmonton (CAN)Lagos/Abuja
DatesTBDTBDTBDTBDTBD
Cost$4,200 per participant(=N=)

For Whom

  • Business Executives
  • Managers and those in leadership positions
  • Policy makers and Administrators
  • Public sector HODs, Managers & Officers
  • Investment and Commercial Bankers
  • Treasurers & Treasury Staff, Operations & Control
  • Market Supervision
  • Statisticians/Researchers
  • Finance Directors, Financial Controllers

Snapshot of Course Content

Sectoral Policy & Macroeconomic Framework

  • Sectoral policies and development strategies in the context of overall macroeconomic policy framework
  • Nature and dimensions of sectoral policy and institutional reforms
  • Determinants and measurement of sectoral performance
  • Analysis of sectoral performance and intersectoral linkages
  • Management of sectoral policies and programmes

Leadership & Management

  • Leadership characteristics of an effective leader
  • Theories on leadership styles
  • Being a proactive leader
  • Time management matrix
  • The Concept of level five leadership
  • Leadership & Power
  • Unlocking your own leadership potential
  • The four keystones based on the work of Dr Robert Cooper

Strategic Thinking

  • What is strategic thinking?
  • The strategic thinking pyramid
  • The strategic thinking process
  • Identifying your strategic issues
  • Using your company’s strategic vision
  • Integrating your new strategy into your organization’s overall strategy

Strategic Analysis

  • Map of the strategic context
  • External analysis tools: PESTLE, Porter’s 5 forces, competitive advantage, etc.
  • Internal analysis tools: SWOT, Gap Analysis, GE Grid, etc.
  • Strategic change
  • Managing strategic change
  • The five stages of planning & implementing a strategy: Initiation, Planning, Motivating, Monitoring, Closing

Strategic Option Analysis

  • Analysis tools: Force-Field Analysis, Ishikawa Diagrams
  • Attractiveness-Implementation Difficulty, Stakeholder Analysis, etc.
  • Integrating your new strategy into your organization’s overall strategy
  • Building a business case & communicating your new strategy

Managing Information & Performance

  • Understanding data uses
  • Control Vs Productivity
  • Performance measures
  • Prediction & Forecasting
  • Identifying your management information style
  • How to collect & analyse good data
  • Using a business dashboard

Exercise

  • Business expansion into a new region