COURSE OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential.
- Communicate your vision in refreshing and engaging ways.
- Define the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’.
- Understand and explain visionary thinking as part of the strategic process and apply strategic planning to your own management issues.
- Place your own part of the organization within the overall context of corporate strategy.
- Gain confidence in managing your own contribution to strategic implementation .
TARGET AUDIENCE:
- Senior Management Professionals, Team Leaders, Supervisors and All Professionals who are responsible for driving company growth by creating or eliciting new ideas and paradigms. Alternatively, you may be stuck with your own ‘logical’ career journey and seeking an opportunity to explore beyond its boundaries
- Anyone who wants to forge innovative approaches to communications, or to human resource and training managers searching for breakthrough ideas and tools they can use to harness the creativity in others within their organization
COURSE OUTLINE:
DAY 1: Creative Problem-Solving
- Leadership vs. Management
- Understanding Our Brain Function
- The Limitations of The Rational
- Divergent Approaches to Problem-solving
- Convergent and Divergent Modes
DAY 2: Overcoming Personal Blockers to Creativity
- Sigmoid Curve - Lifecycle Model
- Breakthrough Step Change
- Self-awareness and The Nature of The Ego
- Personal Goal Alignment
- Exploring Attitudes to Risk
DAY 3: Developing The Vision Creatively
- Six Thinking Hats
- Using Differing Thinking Styles
- JoHari’s Window
- Harnessing The Power of The Team
- Organisational Culture and Its Influence on Innovation
DAY 4: Communicating The Vision Creatively
- Authenticity and Trust
- Creativity Tools, Techniques & Strategy
- Letting Go of The Vision
- Leading Without Directing
- Possible Leadership Beliefs
DAY 5: From Ideas to Action: Creativity and Change
- Is Money A Motivator?
- Personality Profiling
- Building a Creative Consensus
- Engaging Stakeholders Creatively
- Influencing and Motivating through Change
DAY 6: Strategic Thinking and External Analysis
- Understanding The Main Frameworks For Strategic Analysis
- Private and Public Sector Strategies – similarities and differences
- External Analysis - Understanding and Analysing Business Attractiveness
- Analysing Customers and Benchmarking Your Own Strategic Position
- How attractive is the game that we have chosen to play?
DAY 7: Internal Analysis and Fusion into Strategic Choice
- Internal Analysis: Non-financial
- The Concept and Practicalities of the “Balanced Scorecard”
- Diagnosing and Analysing Strategic Problems and Opportunities
- The fusion of Analysis into Strategic Choices - SWOT and The Strategy Matrix
- How well are we playing the game that we have chosen to play?
DAY 8: Strategic Plans and The Relevance of Alliances and Joint Ventures
- Putting a Strategic Plan Together – The 5-Page Framework
- A Real-life Example of a Business Strategy / Strategic Plan
- Strategies for Alliances and Joint Ventures
- Management of Alliances and Joint Ventures
- Examples of Best Practice in Alliances and Joint Ventures
DAY 9: Global Strategy, Team Building and The Management of Internal Communication
- Globalization – The Organisational Dimension
- Globalization – The Human Dimension
- How to Build and Manage a Strategic Planning Team
- Communicating Strategy through The Organisation
- Gaining Your Team’s Commitment and Buy-in to The Strategy
DAY 10: Strategic Implementation and Getting The Value Out of Strategy
- Implementation – Getting Practical Things Done
- Creating Tomorrow’s Organisation Out of Today’s Organisation
- Strategic Planning at A Personal Level
- Overview: The Complete Strategy Process
- Summary and Conclusions - The Corporate and Individual Value of Strategic Planning
