Start Date: 23 Sep , 2024
End Date : 27 Sep, 2024
Duration : 5 Days
Overall Description:
Developing Upper Management Competences Training workshop is intense and will cover the key skills and behavioral competences all senior managers with strategic responsibility should have to enable the organization to achieve its objectives.
Course Objectives:
- Understand how to inspire, influence, and build high performing and effective teams
- Have a clear understanding of the senior leaders’ role in overall leadership and effective management of the organization
- Analyze the main components of a competency and the differences between each
- Design and produce a competency framework and model by extracting competencies from business plans
- Apply competencies in the recruitment and selection processes
- Use competencies to assess training needs, identify talent pools and produce succession plans
- Be equipped with strategic leadership and management skills to enhance team performance
- Confidently be able to deploy a range of effective management techniques and tools
Course Outline (Content):
Strategic Leadership
- The challenge of modern strategic leadership.
- Alternative approaches to strategic management.
- Creating vision and values for your organization.
- Developing mission, goals and objectives.
- A rational model of strategic development.
- Strategic tools: brainstorming and mind mapping.
Implementing Strategy and Change Management
- The strategic implementation process.
- Managing change successfully.
- Forces for and against change.
- Dealing with barriers to change.
Results Focus
- Delivering required outputs by deadline
- Accountability – holding self and others accountable.
- Developing a culture of continuous improvement.
- Measuring performance.
- Developing a culture of getting it right first time.
- Prioritising and focusing on key priorities.
- The balanced scorecard – performance management tool.
Strategic Analysis
- Identifying key success factors.
- Balancing stakeholder objectives.
- The external environment: Risk/ PESTLE analysis.
- The external environment: Porter’s 5 Forces analysis.
- Organizational capabilities.
Personal Effectiveness
- Time management skills.
- Projecting a positive role image/ model.
- Acting decisively – decision making
Who Should Attend?
- Executives
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Project Leaders
- Individuals making the transition into upper management roles
Course Methodology:
We utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This training course will be conducted as a highly interactive workshop session. A variety of training methodologies will be used Before and during the course whenever applicable. Some of these methods are gamification, online pre-post test, role plays, self-assessment instruments, group exercises & case studies.
