STRATEGIC THINKING FOR SENIOR MANAGERS

Overview

‘’Strategic thinking skills are a very vital part of senior manager’s toolkit alongside financial and people skills… but middle managers often fail to progress their career because of their perceived deficiencies in this areas’’. Many Senior Managers are most at home when resolving problems and ensuring the smooth running of operations. However, as your career progresses, it is vital that you acquire new skills that will enable you perform effectively in finding solutions to longer term problems and complex strategic issues.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Generate creative strategies options and priorities them to arrive at optimal solutions
• Understand how to turn strategies programmes into actual implementation
• Avoid implementation pitfall
• Learn how to present and communicate your ideasthroughout the organization
• Critically asses risk and benefits in order to ensure you make the right strategic decisions
• Acquire new skills in both the technical and political aspects of the strategic decision making process
• Adopt a ‘common sense’ and time efficient business strategy approach, which distils only the best from current fads and trends
• Achieve significant improvement in results.

Target Audience

Senior / Principal Managers, Managers & Heads of departments

Course Content

• Setting the scene and getting the foundations in place
• The devils is in the details
• Strategy School of Strategic Thought
• What is strategy? Strategic Framework
• Using Strategic Visioning to Explore the future transformation
• Strategic value is it Important?
• Understanding the External Market place
• Analyzing Competitive Marketing Strategy
• Generating Options using creative thinking
• Improving Business Performance
• Evaluation Option and Risk within your organization
• Influencing and Driving change
• Identifyingand Overcoming Obstacles to Implementation
• Developing Winning Business Plans

COURSE DURATION: 2 DAYS