Strategic Leadership for Senior Managers

Strategic Leadership for Senior Managers

Course Overview: 

How can a senior leader be more strategic? Strategic leadership is future oriented. It connects the organization with the bigger picture as per the industry trend. It refers to influencing the corporate citizens towards making a company world-class and thriving in the VUCA environment. 

Outlining a winning strategy, excellence in execution through teams and individuals, and optimum utilization of resources to master the change in the ever-changing environment are the characteristics of the strategic leadership in any organization. 

How do you ensure that your senior managers imbibe strategic leadership skills? All of us are aware that a leader’s today have greater challenges than ever before. 

OBJECTIVES: 

• Learn the key benefits of strategic leadership
• Gain new insights into the vision and mission of the company
• Evolve effective strategies to
• Achieve goals of the business
• Thrive during competition
• Embed the strategies into the culture of the organisation and its processes
• Imbibe a fresh perspective for top-line and bottom line
• Improved Culture of performance and empowerment of the teams
• Improved skills of influencing and persuasion 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? 

• Senior Management Team
• General Management Executives
• Heads of the Departments
• Strategic Planners, Business Analysts 

Course Outline:  

DETERMINE THE LEADER IN YOU: 

• What is leadership?
• Characteristics of a manager vs. leader
• Understand the different Leadership styles
• Leadership in the current scenario
• Assessment of the attendee’s current style of leadership

MAXIMISING YOUR IMPACT: 

• Comprehend the vision and mission of the organisation
• Alignment of corporate identity with the strategy
• Align goals of self with the goals of the company
• Harness your leadership abilities as per the VUCA environment
• Discover how daily habits and routines help you achieve better outcomes 

BUILDING A WORLD-CLASS TEAM: 

• Characteristics of a world-class and high-performing team
• Aligning the roles and responsibilities of the team with business strategy
• Focus on the growth of the team and individuals
• Measuring the performance of the team
• Being Emotionally Intelligent
• Managing conflict in the team
• Retention of the high-performing team members
• Succession Planning
• Accepting Diversity and Challenge 

THE ART OF DELEGATION: 

• Understand how delegation fits into your job
• Ways to delegate
• Process of delegation
• Communication during delegation
• Monitoring during delegation
• Sharing effective feedback
• Pitfalls during delegation and their avoidance 

ACTION-ORIENTED LEADERSHIP: 

• Understand how to become better at interpersonal relationships
• Building a network to gain valuable insights into business
• Leadership in times of Contingency
• Collaborative decision-making
• Innovation and Best-practices 

STRATEGIC INFLUENCING SKILLS: 

• What is influence?
• Elements and factors for influencing others
• Major influencing strategies
• Understanding exemplary leadership
• Walk the talk
• Dealing with challenging attitudes and behaviors