Strategy
The Director as Strategic Leader
This programme will give you the opportunity to consider the strategic leadership requirements of both your organisation and you as a leader.
Strategic leadership requires the ability to set direction for the organisation you are responsible for and empower others to create strategic change as necessary. The key challenge facing the strategic leader is the need to reconcile the uncertain and ambiguous situation facing their organisation with the demands from those that report to her or him for certainty and clarity of direction.
This programme is designed to a) provide you with knowledge and techniques which can enable you to determine a strategic direction for your organization and implement strategic actions, b) help you better understand the corporate dynamics of top management teams, and c) enable you to constructively reflect on your approach to leadership. During the programme you will work on crafting a set of initiatives to take back to your organisation which may relate to developing your own leadership capabilities, or they may concern the strategic development of your organisation.
What will I get out of the programme?
You will gain:
- An opportunity to consider the strategic leadership requirements of both your organisation and yourself as a leader
- Insights into strategic thinking and associated techniques to address the questions that keep leaders of organizations awake at night
- A set of implementable initiatives which will progress both the corporation`s strategic development and personal leadership agendas
- Greater appreciation of the big picture issues and how to address them effectively
- An opportunity to reflect on your own challenges as a leader and how you can exercise strategic leadership within your organisation, you will have an opportunity to learn more about yourself, your organisation and your role within it.
What is the programme about?
This programme considers the critical elements of strategic leadership. Topics and issues include:
- Strategic thinking at the corporate level
- How to gain and sustain competitive advantage
- Identifying your organisation’s development needs
- Strategic leadership in the private, public and not-for-profit context
- How to navigate due diligence, corporate finance, private equity, corporate governance and the market for corporate control
- The systemic nature of strategic interventions and the management of change
- Understanding the nature of authority and power in strategic leadership.
Who is the programme for?
Directors, senior managers and chief executives from all types of organisations, both profit and non-profit making, who wish to develop their skills in strategic leadership. The major criterion for attendance on this programme is that delegates have or will shortly assume strategic responsibility for an organisation or company division.
Director
Patrick Reinmoeller