Creative Strategic Planning & Leadership

Management & Leadership

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Introduction

This comprehensive Course on Creative Strategic Planning and Leadership is tailored for professionals who aim to maximize their creative potential while aligning their actions with strategic business goals. Participants will start with self-discovery, enhancing their creative leadership capabilities, and will then focus on strategic thinking and planning. The course emphasizes balancing creativity with analytical rigor, enabling participants to lead their teams effectively and contribute to organizational success. By the end of the course, participants will have a clearer understanding of how to drive change and implement strategic initiatives within their organizations.

Objectives

By the end of this training course, you 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 organisation within the overall context of corporate strategy

·         Gain confidence in managing your own contribution to strategic implementation

Course Outline

Day One: Creative Leadership in Building Business Relationships

·         Effective leadership.

·         The difference between leadership and management.

·         The difference between creativity and innovation.

·         Sources of creativity.

·         Various ways to solve problems.

·         Methods, ways of thinking and types.

Day Two: Practical Applied Approach to Management and Strategic Planning

·         What is management and strategic planning.

·         The importance of management and strategic planning.

·         Practical applied stages of Strategic Management.

·         Analysis of the internal and external environment of the enterprise.

·         Identification and analysis of stakeholders Mapping and Analysis.

Day Three: Strategy Formulation:

 ·        Formulating the vision and mission.

·         Agree on common values.

·         Reaching strategic goals.

·         Identify the main success factors of CSF.

·         Formulation and use of KPI's key performance indicators.

·         Designing and using BSC balanced scorecards.

Day Four: Strategic Implementation and Strategic Handling of Challenges·        Methods of transformation from strategic planning to operational planning.

·         Stages and practical steps of corporate strategic change.

·         Leading the human side of institutional change.

·         Dealing with problems before and during the implementation of the strategy.

·         Search for the root cause of the problem.

·         The art of exploiting challenges and turning problems into opportunities.

Day Five: Strategic Self-Leadership and Strategic Leader Tools

·         The modern model of an effective strategic leader.

·         Leader tools in dealing with team performance issues.

·         Tools and steps of the best benchmarking comparison method.

·         The foundations of the proper selection of personnel are based on the implementation of the strategy.

·         Delegation and empowerment for the implementation of the strategy.