Leadership Skills & Strategic Planning Training

Course Overview

This course provides an advanced framework for mastering the key principles of leadership and management.
Participants will enhance their expertise with a practical toolkit, including skills in team leadership, project management, and strategic decision-making.

Strategic planning is a critical and systematic process for defining organizational goals, creating actionable strategies, and effectively utilizing resources. It enables organizations to respond to evolving market conditions, align internal capabilities, and sustain a competitive advantage.

Through this interactive workshop, participants will explore cutting-edge strategic concepts and engage in practical exercises to refine their skills in the strategic planning process—from formulation to implementation. By the end of the program, attendees will be equipped with the tools and confidence to design and execute impactful strategies that drive long-term organizational success.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the difference between managing and leading
  • Explore the main drivers of leadership and management success
  • Understand the key leadership and management skills, including:
  • Goal setting and Motivation
  • Impact and Influence
  • Customer Service
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Delegation
  • Time Management
  • Listening, Feedback, Appraisal and Learning
  • Managing Conflict and Challenge
  • Performance Management
  • Reporting Up (How to Manage your Boss)
  • Profit and Loss
  • Coaching for Performance
  • Change and Transition
  • Personal Development
  • Create a Personal Development Plan Based on the Above Skills
  • Explain the concept of strategy and the process of strategic planning development
  • Evaluate both external and internal organizational environments using different strategic frameworks
  • Formulate strategic plans which include critical success factors, strategic goals, and operational objectives.

Course Contents

Practical Frontline Leadership Skills

  • The Difference between Leadership and Management
  • How Your Leadership Drives Performance
  • The Leadership Cycle: daily, weekly, monthly
  • Leadership Toolbox: the key leadership and management skills
  • Personal Leadership Inventory

Leadership in Action – People, Priorities and Projects

  • Dealing with distractions and understanding the value of your time
  • Prioritization and organization: how to master both and teach others
  • Setting and communicating vision, mission and goals
  • Working together to achieve your goals: the secrets of great team working
  • Essentials of project management for managers
  • Coordination activities in the digital age: tools and techniques
  • Case Study and Learning Exercise on Creating Purpose and Improving Performance

Improving your Team’s Performance

  • Mindset, team dynamics and motivation
  • Limiting beliefs and other brakes on performance
  • Emotional intelligence and influence
  • Teamwork and trust – management skills for managing teams
  • Deep listening, reflection and learning – learning and working as a team
  • Situational leadership and the one-minute manager

Leading through Better Communication

  • Leadership and management communication strategies
  • Gaining rapport and building credibility with your team
  • Effective questioning and listening skills
  • Ways to be more convincing and overcoming conflict
  • Negotiating agreement and getting a win-win
  • Case Study and Learning Exercise on Negotiation and Communication

Managing People and Change

  • Theories of change: why we find change hard / how to make it easy
  • Coaching for performance: Giving and receiving feedback
  • Difficult conversations and conflict
  • Working relationships (managing up and down)
  • Personal development and growth plan
  • Leadership and management skills: summary
  • Personal development plans

An Overview of Strategy

  • Origins of strategy and strategic planning
  • Strategic myths and misconceptions
  • Classical planning versus strategic planning
  • The fat-free strategy model
  • Key terms in strategic management

Situational Analysis

  • Strategic thinking versus strategic planning
  • The importance of situational analysis
  • Porter’s five forces and its application
  • Internal analysis using SWOT
  • External analysis using PESTEL

Developing Strategic Plans

  • Ensuring strategic alignment
  • Extracting Critical Success Factors
  • Key Performance Areas
  • Core Competencies
  • Organizational Values
  • Strategic goals
  • Strategic Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Operational objectives

Our Process

Cost For On-site Training

Training Duration

5 Days

Cost

$2500

Total Cost (with VAT)

$2625

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