Management and Strategic Masterclass: 5 Day Course

Please see below an outline for our Management and Strategic Masterclass, which is available as an in-house training course for your staff. The course will be tailored to your company needs.

Introduction

Strategic planning enables an organization to shape and guide its overall business objectives. Through effective strategic planning, an organization creates a framework for developing, adapting and aligning organizational vision, mission and goals to achieve and sustain competitive advantage.

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.

Programme Objective

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

Method and Approach

This programme will involve the use of slides, handout material, work manual with all instructor notes and slides, examples of best practice and appropriate video/DVD material. The use of flip-charts, syndicate workshops and reporting back sessions will encourage a fully participative and enjoyable event. Delegates will be encouraged to participate actively in relating previous work experiences.

Who Should Attend

• 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

Course Content

Day 1 – Strategic Planning Revisited and Change Management

• Formulation of vision, mission and goals
• SWOT, Pestle, Porter’s 5 forces and McKinsey’s 7 S’s
• Diagnostic tools to help us understand where we are
• 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 no value-added ones phased out
• How to build an innovative organization?
• How to measure the performance against goals and objectives?
• A personal action plan

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