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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Analysis and Assessment

We spend a whole day at your place of business, identifying key people, interviewing managers, surveying employees, and discussing your training needs. The aim is to understand your Strategic goals, gauge your HR challenges, identify skill gaps, and determine what’s holding Your organization back from being more effective and productive.

Training and Curriculum Development

This is where we shine- developing training specific to your needs. We use an approach that respects your employees’ availability and learning style, allowing them to pick and choose activities and modules that work for them while still delivering the learning they want and need. This can include but is not limited to, self-assessment surveys with personal feedback, listening to podcasts, watching, and responding to video-based instructions, attending in-class lectures and workshops, and engaging in business simulation games and role-playing.

Approval and Implementation

Once we have developed the training, we will give you an opportunity to go through it. After incorporating your feedback, we will establish a schedule for rolling out the training and set
benchmarks for completion. Then, let the training begin!

Evaluation

Every training we design includes an evaluation component. Not only do we evaluate your employees’ learning through testing and one-to-one assessment, but we also ask you and your staff to evaluate us; Did the training meet your expectations? Did it solve a specific Problem or problems? What can we do better next time?