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 differs from other forms of leadership insofar as the strategic leader is required to set direction for the organisation he or she is responsible for. 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 them 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 organisation, b) 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
- An understanding of the key strategic questions facing every organisation, and the knowledge and techniques to set about addressing these questions
- A set of implementable initiatives which will progress both the strategy and personal leadership agendas
- 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:
- Key questions at corporate and business level strategy
- How to gain and sustain competitive advantage
- Identifying your organisation’s strategic assets
- The development of innovative competitive strategies
- Strategy in the not-for-profit context
- Corporate level strategy, including how the corporate centre can add value to its businesses
- Understanding ‘strategic perception’
- 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.
All types of organisations attend, both profit and non-profit making.
Director
Patrick Reinmoeller