Introduction
To managers and leaders moving into a significant leadership position, you face the challenge of developing and executing strategies in a dynamic global environment. You must build a team and manage internal and external resources and relationships so that your organization can enhance your value chain and deliver results. As the leader, you are in charge and need to enhance your personal impact and influence to meet these challenges. Only a system-wide view of your business and the world in which it operates can help you to become an effective, operational and visionary leader.
The Advanced Strategic Management program will help you build the skills you need to boost performance in your business today and to prepare your organization to sustain performance in the future.
Course Objectives of Advanced Strategic Management
- Strategic: Keeping your focus on both strategic and operational goals and adjusting to the continual changes in the market.
- Organization: Aligning the organization to fit the new strategy and culture.
- Leadership: Increase your effectiveness as a visionary leader to make a greater impact on the people over time.
- Leading Teams: Increase your ability to effectively build the collaboration necessary to get your strategies approved and people to cooperate.
- How: Case studies, videos, simulations, workshops, individual project-work, weekend retreats, group sessions, guest speakers and Faculty coaching will help you to take the classroom back to your office. The first two weeks will deal with thinking strategically about your business and managing your organization to realize your goals. The third and final week will focus on the challenges of execution.
Course Delegates of Advanced Strategic Management
Executives and high-level managers taking on additional strategic leadership responsibilities, who are looking to sharpen their analytical skills and strategic leadership effectiveness. Middle managers contributing to the strategies and execution of an organization.
Course Process of Advanced Strategic Management
The process utilizes all aspects of learning and development including media slides, case studies, video examples, articles from high-level business universities and interactivity among delegates. Workbooks are used to focus on many of the challenges you face, such as customer analysis, stakeholder analysis, strategy, and leading change. They serve as tools to help translate your learning into concrete plans and actions, as well as to engage your organization and team back at the office.
Course Benefits of Advanced Strategic Management
- Prepare to boost performance at individual, team and business-unit levels
- Ensure that your organization is keeping ahead in a constantly changing business environment
- Enhance your personal impact on strategies and change
- Provide a clear view of the changes and challenges of the global economy
- Enhance your capability to make the right decisions regarding budget and resources
Core Competencies of Advanced Strategic Management
- Systems and Strategic Thinking as applied to make better long term decisions
- Leading from the top, to build a successful leadership team
- Build Strategic Planning Criteria, to organize a successful planning team
- Understanding the markets, to gain the insight needed to make better strategic decisions
- Competitive analysis, to benchmark your performance
Course Outlines of Advanced Strategic Management
Day One
Strategic Management
- Strategic Management – a new focus
- The Role of strategic management
- The functions and capabilities of a strategic manager
- The Strategy Hierarchy
- Global Changes and Challenges
- Case Studies on Strategies
- The Benefits of Strategic Management
Day Two
The Strategic Process
- The Strategic Process
- Understanding Strategy VS Strategic Planning
- Choosing the right strategies
- The Environmental Scan
- MBC VS SBC Strategies
- Avoiding Strategic Failures
- Examples of Strategic Successes
- Blue Ocean VS Red Ocean Strategies
- Building Value into the Value Chain
- Applying lessons learned to your organization
Day Three
Strategic Management Skills
- Thinking like a Strategic Manager
- The Leadership Capabilities of Strategic Management
- Self Analysis
- Building your Strategic Skills
- Leading others through the Strategic Process
- Examples of Strategic Leaders
- Your ability to communicate your changes
Day Four
Managing Culture & Changes
- The Significance of the Corporate Culture
- The Leaders Role in Establishing the Culture
- Merger and Acquisition Strategies
- Why most M & A’s fail and how to avoid failure
- The Dynamics of Changing the culture to meet the strategies
- Team Case Study Exercise
- The Ten Elements to building the Culture
- The Dilemma of multicultural corporations
- Making the changes in strategy work
- Video Case Studies
Day Five
The Strategic Plan
- Preparing a Plan
- Implementing Corporate strategies
- Evaluating & Monitoring the strategies
- The Dynamics of Strategic Execution
- Building a Leadership Legacy
- Review Exercise
About Barcelona
Barcelona, the main city of Catalonia on Spain's east coast, is known for its fantastic weather and proud local culture. It is also Spain's second largest city and has all the cosmopolitan trappings you would expect. Among Barcelona's many attractions are the delicious seafood, stunning architecture and vibrant atmosphere. It began life as a Roman city and has remained important ever since. Today, it is a buzzing city offering more than enough reasons to look for flights to Barcelona. Between UNESCO World Heritage Sites, famous sports teams plus great food, there's no shortage of ways to amuse oneself.
Things to do and places to visit in Barcelona
Barcelona really does have something for everyone. The attractions of Barcelona include beautiful beaches to relax on, almost endless historical locations to explore, all the shops you could ever wish for, one of the world's most admired football clubs and world-class eateries - you may never want to leave. Luckily, with so much to do the city's compactness makes it easy to explore. Simply wandering through the streets is a great way to soak up the atmosphere.
Just some of the great things to do in Barcelona include:
- Marvel at Gaudi's masterwork, the Sagrada Familia.
- Sample the wide range of tapas in Barcelona's bars.
- See the somewhat surreal architecture of Antoni Gaudi.
- Wander through Park Guell, which offers great views over the city and out to sea.
- See the Cubist master’s early work in the Picasso Museum.
- Get lost in the winding streets of the Gothic Quarter, known locally as the Barri Gotic.
- Browse the upmarket shops along the Passeig de Gracia.
- Soak up the tranquil atmosphere in the Cathedral of the Sea.
- Watch the silky skills of FC Barcelona in a game at the Camp Nou.
- Enjoy authentic paella with fresh seafood.
- Climb Montjuic for spectacular views.