Introduction
Do you want your people to deliver extraordinary performance? Do you want your people to achieve great things and fulfill their potential? Do you want an organizational culture that engages your people? If your answer is yes then you must put into place the building blocks that create an inspirational organization that motivates and empowers your people. Inspirational leaders are visionaries who seek and generate momentum for change. They create a shared vision that engages their people and a culture where people value themselves, each other, the company, and the customers.
Inspirational leadership is a highly creative and intrinsically interpersonal activity to which people positively respond. As a leadership style, it demands that leaders employ their strengths with effect, where behaviors and values are paramount and where trust is established. This structured program seeks to explore the personal traits that make leaders inspirational in the context of their organization's strategy and culture. It offers a learning experience in which tools and techniques are employed to build leadership capability and a strategic response to the challenges of the role.
This program will assist delegates to:
- Build an organizational vision direction and purpose
- Evaluate the impact of the wider environment of strategy
- Determine the key features of their organization's culture to determine if it is supportive of the organization's direction
- Identifies opportunities to innovate in the organization
- Build a compelling message for those they lead
Conference Objectives of Inspirational Leadership: Strategy, Change, and Culture
- To build an organizational vision and identify the values which underpin the vision.
- To identify the behaviors which build trust and influence.
- To understand and demonstrate in practice the skills of inspirational leadership.
- To understand organizational culture and how it impacts performance.
- To ensure that strategy and culture are aligned to impact the organization positively.
- To establish a “grounded” change management plan to meet the needs of the global environment.
Conference Benefits of Inspirational Leadership: Strategy, Change, and Culture
Typical results at work include:
- A stronger focus on strategy
- Changes to ways of working and service delivery which offers tangible benefits to the organization
- Effective communication
- Improved motivation
- Enhanced team working
- A proactive approach to change
Conference Results of Inspirational Leadership: Strategy, Change, and Culture
- A stronger focus on strategic alignment
- The identification of potential changes aligned to support the strategy and promote employee engagement
- Leaders deliver a compelling vision of the organizational direction
- Improved interpersonal relationships
- A greater level of trust in the organization
- A proactive approach to change
Core Competencies of Inspirational Leadership: Strategy, Change, and Culture
- Emotional Intelligence
- Strategic direction and organizational alignment
- Personal credibility and trusted influence
- Communication
- Leading organizational change
Conference Outlines of Inspirational Leadership: Strategy, Change, and Culture
Day One
Inspirational Leadership and Culture
- The shadow of the leader
- How leaders impact the culture and climate of an organization
- Organizational culture what is it and why so important?
- Using Mckinsey’s 7 s tool to analyze the organization
- What features can I identify in my organizational culture?
- Does our culture support the vision and strategy? Identify areas for potential change
Day Two
Strategy and the Organisation
- How does the global environmental impact our business?
- Current status: SWOT analysis
- The strategy it support and the vision Porter 5 forces on strategy: impact and outcomes
- Customer drive strategy. Do we meet their needs?
- Future projections of need and planning
- Strategy tree: ensuring alignment
Day Three
Leading the Strategic Vision
- Building an organizational vision
- Behaviors, values, and stakeholders to support the vision
- The leadership qualities that will deliver the vision
- Two fundamental questions on leadership
- Inspiring others
- My leadership challenge
Day Four
Inspirational leadership: future action and intent
- The anatomy of leadership
- Inspiring by creating meaning: building a compelling vision
- Inspiring through communication: elevator speech
- Inspiring through trust
- Inspiring by engaging your people
- Action planning and review
Day Five
Generating Momentum and Leading Change
- Led strategic and cultural change
- Models of change
- Planning for change: Kotter’s Eight Stage model
- Gaining support
- Overcoming resistance
- Addressing individual resistance. Winning hearts and minds
About Istanbul
Few places compare to the vibrant, cosmopolitan city of Istanbul, whose enormous size straddles both Europe and Asia, forming a bridge between western and eastern cultures. Resting upon the natural harbor of the Golden Horn, the skyline of the once-Constantinople is pierced with minarets and ancient monuments that embody centuries of history. While it is brimming with historical landmarks and colorful markets, modern Istanbul is also well represented through its contemporary art scene, European-style café culture, world-class dining venues.
Things to do and places to visit in Istanbul
Istanbul is teeming with attractions and landmarks from historic sights and unique cuisine to lively markets and unmistakable culture. It is a thriving city, with a myriad of things to do that skillfully manage to blend every aspect of both the contemporary and the historical world.
On a city break in Istanbul be sure to:
- Visit a hammam, a traditional Turkish bath, whose origins date back to Roman times.
- Marvel at the Hagia Sophia, Süleymaniye Mosque and Blue Mosque, Istanbul's most spectacular monuments that dominate the skyline.
- Explore the Topkapi Palace Museum, one of Istanbul's most visited museums, home to over 80,000 artifacts.
- Walk through the Basilica Cistern, an underground marvel built in the 4th century.
- Be dazzled by the Grand Bazaar, one of the world's oldest and largest covered markets.
- Go shopping for exotic products and Turkish delights in the Spice Bazaar.
- Cross the bridge connecting Europe and Asia against the backdrop of the Bosphorus, or take a Bosphorus cruise.
- Taste the diversity and flavor of Turkish cuisine.
- Admire panoramas of the city from the Galata Tower.
- Walk through Taksim Square, the city's dynamic square that never sleeps.