Introduction

This seminar offers a chance to step back from daily managerial pressures and focus on broader strategic and organizational goals. Participants will gain tools to analyze forces shaping their organization, develop a strategic vision, and manage performance effectively. Learn to interpret organizational culture, build trust and influence, and delegate with confidence. This program equips you with the skills to set meaningful long-term objectives for personal and organizational success.

Objectives

• Describe the effect of the external and competitive environment on their organization

• Select appropriate methods for measuring and managing performance

• Describe their organization’s culture and climate and their effects on performance

• Link human resource management to strategic objectives

• Consider a range of approaches to delegation

• Select appropriate strategies for influencing and motivating others

Target Audience

• Senior Managers & Executives
• Department Heads & Functional Managers
• Team Leaders & Supervisors
• Strategic Planning & Business Development Professionals
• Human Resources Managers & Organizational Development Specialists
• Project & Operations Managers

Outlines

Day 1: Strategic Orientation

• Strategic context: the external environment

• The new business reality

• Predictable trends in business

• Competitive forces

• Stakeholder analysis

• Strategic resources and constraints

• Creating a compelling strategic vision

• Creativity and change

Day 2: Managing Resources and Performance

• Aligning vision, aims, and objectives

• Performance measurement

• From measurement to improvement

• Coaching process to correct poor performance

• Coaching to challenge

• Self-coaching and the power to change

• Coaching and influencing upwards

• Risk and its management

Day 3: Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources

• Organizational form

• Culture, climate, values, and norms

• Team and group dynamics

• Assigning responsibilities

• Deputize to free up time

• Fundamentals of human resource management

• Appraisal and reward

• Learning and development

Day 4: Key Management Competencies: Prioritisation, Time Management, and Delegation

• Balancing the important and the urgent

• Setting personal goals

• Creating time from nothing

• Batching and how it can win back time

• Income-producing activities

• Getting things done through other people

• Delegation and empowerment

• Management case study

Day 5: Linking Management to Leadership: Influence, Motivation, and Trust

• Negotiation and persuasion: the pillars of influence

• The secret six in business negotiation

• The nature of motivation

• The trust bank account

• Ethics

• Personal leadership style

• Leadership in action: group exercise

• Balancing work and home life