Innovative Leadership & Strategic Planning & Organizational Effectiveness
Course Code: MN31
Course Objective
- 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 organisation 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,
- Anyone who wants to forge innovative approaches to communications,
- human resource and training managers searching for breakthrough ideas and tools they can use to harness the creativity in others within their organisation.
Course Outline
Day 1: Creative Problem-Solving
- Leadership Reality Assessment
- Leadership Vs Management
- Understanding Our Brain Function
- Myths of Creativity
- The limitations of the rational
- Divergent approaches to problem-solving
- Letting go of logic
- Analogous thinking modes
- Convergent and divergent modes
Day 2: Developing the Vision Creatively
- Six thinking hats
- Using differing thinking styles
- JoHari’s window
- The business plan process & creating a vision
- Harnessing the power of the team
- Organisational culture and its influence on innovation
- Letting go of the ego
- Working with different creative preferences
Day 3: From Ideas to Action: Creativity and Change
- Motivation - Hierarchy of Needs
- Overcoming organisational barriers to creativity and change
- Nurturing a learning environment
- Is Money a motivator?
- Personality Profiling
- Building a creative consensus
- Engaging stakeholders creatively
- Influencing and motivating through change
Day 4: Strategic Thinking and External Analysis
- Definitions of strategy and strategic planning?
- Why are strategy and strategic planning important?
- 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 5: Strategic Implementation and Getting the Value out of Strategy
- Alignment of strategy, culture, structure and people
- Effective execution - converting strategic analysis and planning into action
- Aligning and linking strategy with operational objectives
- 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
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