Beyond Leadership

Critical Skills for Aligning Corporate Strategies and Improving Business Performance

Please see below an outline for our Beyond Leadership – Critical Skills for Aligning Corporate Strategies and Improving Business Performance, which is available as an in-house training course for your staff. The course will be tailored to your company needs.

5 Day Course

Overview
The key to any organizations strategic success is in the implementation. Whether you are a leader or manager, it is your implementation of the strategic goals and objectives that will dictate the future success of your organization.

This course covers a range of skills and concepts that you will have to master to ensure the successful implementation of your organization’s strategic plan.

Aims
To help you learn that:

• Three words that matter most after the strategic plan has been built – “Implementation”, ”Implementation” “Implementation”
• What is required to achieve maximum influence and master techniques to inspire, impress and direct your peers
• To successfully communicate strategy to those who must make it happen
• A well structured performance management system is vital to successfully implement strategy
• There may be a need to redesign your organizational structure to assist in strategy implementation
• People are a key component in ensuring that a corporate vision and mission are put into practice

Module Content

• A revision of strategy and strategic planning
• Handling change management
• Organization design and development
• Communicating the strategic focus
• Managing performance to maximize results
• Aligning corporate learning
• Developing strategic influencing skills
• Developing corporate performance metrics

Learning Outcomes

Following completion of the course, you will know how to:

• Improve your essential management and leadership skills
• Manage an organization in times of constant change
• Deal with teams and individuals so as to maximize the efficiency and productivity of the organization
• Use a toolbox of skills that will help you perform your own role effectively
• How to manage the relationships with all the stakeholders of your organization
• Understand the steps necessary to ensure successful implementation of the plan
• Ensure that your human capital is properly used in implementing your strategic plan
• How to keep everybody goal oriented
• Communicate your organization’s strategic focus
• Handle the change necessary as a result of the strategic plan
• Monitor progress of strategy implementation
• Build a learning organization that backs up your strategy

Target Audience

• Managers and leaders looking to increase their success in implementing strategy
• Functional managers that want to influence the future success of their department or organization
• Operational staff who define and implement organizational, business unit or divisional objectives
• Executives and professionals responsible for structuring and implementing change
• Managers and leaders who want to influence the performance focus of their decision making

Skills you will need to develop to put your learning into practice

• An clear understanding of your organizations goals and objectives both short term and long term
• An understanding of how to formulate goals both for your unit and its employees
• An understanding of employee motivation
• The use of empowerment techniques
• Managing your role to maximize work-life balance
• An understanding of current thinking about how to manage and lead a 21st century organization
• Ability to think and act outside your comfort zone
• Develop characteristics that are present in exceptional leaders
• An ability to manage upwards to ensure that you can implement your strategies and plans
• Good communication skills

Behaviours you will need to develop to put your learning into practice:

• A genuine desire to help people improve their performance both for the organization’s and the individuals benefit
• Being able to articulate the organization’s vision, goals and objectives
• Ensuring the individual knows how their role fits in the organization
• Ability to show leadership and have credibility with subordinates
• Personal behaviour that reflects the organizations values and culture
• An open communication style

Program Outline

Day 1

Strategic Planning Revisited and Change Management

• Formulation of goals
• Development of implementation strategies and infrastructures
• Implementation of policy changes having a broad corporate impact
• Mitigating employee resistance
• Involving employees in change
• Training and development
• Communications
• Organizational design
• Affirmative Action

Day 2

Communicating the Strategic Focus

• Internal advertising
• Participation
• Removing obstacles in the culture
• Reinforce through daily use
• Model the behaviour
• Holding group and team meetings

Day 3

Managing Performance to Maximize Results

• Implementing a performance management system that drives results
• Identifying employee strengths
• Improving productivity
• Reinforcing positive behaviours
• Design of appropriate incentive strategies and total compensation packages
• Aligning compensation plans to support overall corporate strategy
• Developing and implementing long-term employee relations strategies
• Talent management

Day 4

Aligning Corporate Learning with Business Strategies: Making Learning Count for the Business

• What is “learning?”
• How is the learning agenda influenced by business conditions?
• What are the most powerful learning priorities for major business strategies?
• What are the design parameters of the most effective learning activities?
• Who’s the learning leader, and what is a CLO all about?
• How should learning investments and organizations be managed and measured?
• How important is learning today? Why do we care?
• What influences the learning strategy?
• What are the components of today’s learning system?

Day 5

Organization Design and Development, Innovation and Performance Measurement

• Design and reengineering of business organizations as new products, processes and technologies are developed and nonvalue-added ones phased out
• How to build an innovative organization?
• How to measure the performance against goals and objectives?
• A personal action plan

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To discuss your training requirements and how this course can work for you, please contact us.