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 organization within the overall context of corporate strategy
  • Gain confidence in managing your own contribution to strategic implementation

Target Audience

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
  • Organizational 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 organizational 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 analyzing business attractiveness
  • Analyzing 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 organization out of today’s organization
  • 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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