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Strategic Leadership Programme

Written by In Professional Development | 14 March 2022, 11:49

On completion of this programme, delegates will: 

  • Develop a clear understanding of your psychological working preferences using the 5 Factor Model. 
  • Define your own professional values, beliefs and drivers as a strategic leader. 
  • Use the ‘Observer Self’ concept to review and improve how you lead projects and programmes and interact with others. 
  • Define the factors that differentiate Strategic Leadership from Operational Leadership and how to make the transition. 
  • Review your internal (people) strategy. Apply models of situational leadership, coaching, mentoring and facilitation to enhance the capabilities of your team and develop a succession plan.
  • Critically review your organisational culture, utilising cultural analysis and examine how this impacts your strategy. 
  • Review your external (commercial) strategy. Clarify your Vision, examine how events in the macro-environment are affecting your organisation and how you are responding to this. 
  • Analytical strategy. Utilise analytical tools and models to analyse relevant strategic problems and paradoxes and develop strategies to engage with them 
  • Creative strategy. Engage with creative approaches to reframe the organisational reality, and identify original, innovative solutions that will create new avenues for the organisation and your career. 
  • Evaluate strategic change. Use intelligence-based models to assess the impact of internal and externally driven change. 
  • Manage strategic change. Assess the practical and psychological effect of change, and utilise Agile principles to iterate and develop your strategy in response. 
  • Develop peer reviewed, real world, evidence based strategy, drawing on the most relevant tools and theory for your organisation’s culture and your leadership approach