Program in Advanced Management and Leadership (10 Days)

Introduction:

The business world demands more than just managers; it requires true leaders. The Advanced Leadership and Management Program will enhance your critical thinking skills and amplify your impact as a leader. Grounded in essential issues, economic realities, global shifts, and megatrends, this program will challenge your personal perspective on yourself and how your organization operates.

This Advanced Leadership & Management Program allows you to step back from your day-to-day tasks and equips you with the skills and knowledge necessary to adapt, thrive, and succeed. Over ten intensive classroom days, you will be exposed to the best thinking in the field, significantly improving your leadership abilities and their impact on others.

Upon completion of this course, participants will return to their workplace rejuvenated and re-energized, ready to tackle tomorrow’s challenges.

Objectives:

By the end of this advanced leadership and management course, participants will be able to:

• Engage in “Helicopter Thinking,” where concepts like “strategy” and “strategic plan” are clearly defined.
• Break down the strategy process stage-by-stage, providing managers with tools for each key point.
• Apply strategic thinking across the phases of analysis, option generation, choice, implementation, and measurement.
• Illustrate the strategy process through well-selected, engaging case studies, drawing out key learning points.
• Contextualize their strategic role within the broader organization, including the change and influence process.
• Build confidence in their strategic management role within the organizational context.
• Understand their dual role as both a manager and a leader.
• Set clear team objectives and performance standards while effectively managing conflict and other challenges.
• Solve dilemmas more quickly by using various ways of thinking.
• Explore perspectives on team dynamics and leadership styles, sharing best practices and resolving real and simulated performance issues together.

Training Methodology:

• Group Discussions
• Case Studies
• Lively Lectures
• Simulation Games
• Peer Teaching
• Role-Playing Exercises
• Facilitated Group Workshops

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Strategy Development and Business Analysis

• Understanding the essence of strategy and strategic planning.
• Importance of strategic planning.
• Main conceptual frameworks concerning strategy.
• External analysis: business attractiveness, macro-environmental factors, growth drivers, competitive forces, and market dynamics.
• Benchmarking strategic position and competitor analysis.
• Customer analysis and “thinking backward from the customer.”

Unit 2: Internal Analysis and Fusion of Analyses into Strategic Options

• Interface of external and internal analysis.
• Internal analysis: financial and non-financial aspects.
• Concept and practicalities behind a Balanced Scorecard.
• Diagnosing strategic problems and opportunities.
• Fusion of analyses into strategic choices: SWOT and Strategy Matrix.

Unit 3: Strategic Plans and the Relevance of Alliances and Joint Ventures

• Review of tools used so far.
• Content of a strategy: avoiding “paralysis by analysis.”
• Creating a strategic plan: the 5-page framework.
• Real-life example of a business strategy/strategic plan.
• Strategies for alliances and joint ventures.
• Best practices in alliances or joint ventures.

Unit 4: Strategic Implementation and Getting Value Out of Strategy

• Requirements for successful execution.
• Linking strategy to operational objectives.
• Reaching practical goals.
• Career strategic planning.
• Today's organization as the foundation for tomorrow.
• Conclusion: corporate and individual values of strategic thinking.

Unit 5: Global Strategy, Teambuilding, and Management of Internal Communication

• Core concepts of globalization and global strategy.
• Strategic aspects of globalization.
• Organizational definitions of globalization.
• Human perspective on globalization.
• Creating and managing a strategic planning team.
• Broadcasting the strategy throughout the company.
• Securing team commitment to the strategy.
• Leading high-performance teams.

Unit 6: Teams and Their Leaders

• Roles of team heads and executives.
• Main leadership tasks.
• Influence, authority, and power.
• Different leadership styles and their flexibility.
• Self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

Unit 7: Vision, Direction, and Alignment

• Making the vision shared.
• Setting targets, including goals alignment.
• Developing meaningful objectives with indicators.
• Divergent problem-solving approaches.
• Expressing an engaging vision.
• Communicating difficult messages.

Unit 8: Team Dynamics

• Team building process.
• Social structure of teams.
• Typical features of high-performance teams.
• Balancing team roles.
• Teams without traditional structures.
• Delegating powers or leading more leaders.

Unit 9: Developing the Team

• Learning versus competence.
• Creating integrated teams.
• Managing self-directed teams.
• Coaching, mentoring, and self-directed learning.
• Providing feedback and assessment.
• Strengthening the team for better results.

Unit 10: Performance and Conflict Management

• Understanding performance.
• Approaches to measuring team and individual performance.
• Performance from a consumer perspective.
• Performance management as a science.
• Managing conflict: challenges to team dynamics.
• Addressing difficult interpersonal relations.