Taking a Deep Dive to Explore Practical & Relevant Solutions to Organizational Challenges
Program 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 achieved through the combination of strategic management capabilities, laced with appropriate leadership skills and competences.
Competitive strategic advantage is the turf on which the corporate battle is fought and won. In addition to this, cultural sensitivity and motivational management of employees, enhanced by strategic leadership 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.
At the end of the program, delegates would have been able to:
- To understand leadership & vision in an entrepreneurial society
- To gain skills in leading teams for the future
- Maximise performance and minimise conflict
- Consider strategic thinking and planning in a global context
- Explore individual leadership level and the steps needed to get to Level Five
| Venue | Calgary Marriott Downtown Hotel, 110 – 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta. T2G 5A6, Canada |
| Dates | May 20 – 24, 2024 |
| Registeration Fee | $200 (USD) |
| Course Fee | $3,500 (USD) |
The course fee for standard events covers the following:
- Course materials
- Research
- Coffee btreaks, refreshments, & lunch
- Corporate gift items
- Consultants’ honorarium
- Group airport pick-up (on arrival) & drop-off (on departure)
- Daily group pick-up & drop-off: Hotel – Conference Hall – Hotel
For whom
- Senior Managers & Leaders in Leadership Positions
- International Finance & Private Equity Firms
- Corporate & Commercial Banking
- Government Regulatory Agencies & Parastatals
- Project Managers & Sponsors
- Other Relevant Stakeholders
- An overview of the senior manager role
- Understanding your impact on others
- 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
- Team Leadership
- Defining effective teamwork
- What a team needs to succeed
- Team dynamics
- Building an effective team
- Keeping teams motivated
- Working with cross-cultural teams
- Achieving better results through others
- Appraisal & performance review
- The leader as coach & mentor
- A place for executive coaching
- Influencing Others & Managing Conflict
- Types of conflict
- Thomas Killman conflict model
- Dealing with conflict
- 10 steps to joint victory
- 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.,
- 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
- Strategic change
- Managing strategic change
- Analytical tools for managing change
- Kotter’s 8-stage change process
- Internal & external (PESTEL) pressures driving change
- Transformational change process
- Selecting a change strategy
- Methods of change management
- Organizational process to initiating incremental change
- Key features of successful transformational change
- Potential failures of transformational change
- Implementing change
- Resistance to change and tactics to minimizing resistance to change
- Leading & managing change
- The leader as role model
- Essential qualities of a change leader
- Kaizen – incremental change
- Communicating change
- Winning hearts and minds
- Delegation, empowerment
- Developing trust
- The Transition & Kubler-Ross curves
- Stakeholders management
- Risk management
- Measuring the impact of change
- Strategies for employee involvement in change implementation
- Culture and Change
- Cultural dimensions of change
- Corporate culture
- Building a learning organization
- Single and double loop learning
- Systems thinking
- Laws of the fifth discipline
- Bringing it all together
- Developing an action plan
- Managing information
- Understanding data uses
- Control Vs Productivity
- Performance measures
- Prediction & Forecasting
- Identifying your management information style
- How to collect & analyze good data
- Using a business dashboard
- Exercise: Business expansion into a new region