The Executive Leader

Who Should Attend

• Senior Managers & Directors
• Future Leaders
• Individuals with Executive Potential

Course Objectives

• Learn to sharpen your leadership skills and inspire others
• Understand the key functional areas of the business and manage them renewed knowledge and confidence
• Get ready to transform your organisation with new strategic thinking and direction
• Set the stage for innovative thought-processes and frameworks by influencing and communicating ideas
• Develop deeper awareness of macroeconomic trends and the external business environment
• Lead the organisation to explore and penetrate new markets and launch new products
• Leverage your personal leadership style to enhance your effectiveness in leading teams and drive optimal performance from your workforce
• Balance strategic priorities while establishing competitive advantage and directly contribute to the bottom-line
• Develop skills to tap the full potential of your organisation's human capital.

 What will you gain?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Discover and adapt your leadership style to compete and succeed in a globally competitive environment
• Strengthen your ability to interpret and apply information from functional areas for sound, fully informed decision-making
• Master strategic skills for effective decision making, strategy development and implementation
• Strategically plan and become the driving force that leads the organisation to success
• Communicate a powerful organisational vision and inspire team members to 'take ownership' of its success and failure
• Redirect your energy and time to effectively tackle the most pressing strategic challenges
• Challenge your thinking with new ideas and concepts to streamline organisational processes and compete more aggressively in the global marketplace
• Develop ways to successfully navigate through ambiguity and uncertainty, and reduce complexity while exploring new opportunities
• Spearhead your organisation into untapped global markets and introduce new products and services to attain competitive advantage
• Implement a coaching culture in the organisation to develop and encourage new potential
• Redefine your leadership by exploring and enhancing leadership and decision-making capabilities that are used by great and successful leaders.

Course Content

Discovering the Leader Within

• What is your Personal Leadership Style?
• How to use your leadership style to get results?
• Challenges of today's Executive Leadership
• Adapting and Achieving - Becoming a High Performance Leader

 Breaking down Organisational Cues

• Knowing the business inside-out
• In-depth understanding of the company's departments and functions
• Building a Team of No 'Yes-Men' Functional Heads

 Strategic Management and Executive Leadership

• Setting a Mission and Vision
• Setting Goals and Objectives for Future Success
• Strategy Formulation and Development
• Execution and Implementation
• Hurdles Along the way
• Dealing with Failure

Leadership and Decision-Making

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Identifying the Real Issues facing the business
• Decoding Hidden Cues
• Analysing information
• Calling all shots: Making Decisions using Functional Knowledge
• Gaining unanimous approval of all stakeholders

Strategic Business Communication

• Listening Techniques - L.A.E.R Model
• Influencing and Persuading Effortlessly
• Communicating and Cascading Information across organisational levels
• Gaining trust from team members
• Negotiating fearlessly

Coaching and Mentoring

• Enforcing a coaching style of Leadership
• G.R.O.W Model in Coaching
• Giving and receiving constructive feedback
• Developing high potential through a coaching culture

Managing Change and Uncertainty

• Becoming the Driver of Change in Good and Bad Economies
• Harnessing the potential of team members while leading change
• Motivating and Inspiring
• Overcoming Organisational Barriers to Change

 Strategic Business Sense: Discovering Unexplored Territories

• Taking Calculated Risks
• Introducing New Products and Services
• Gaining true Competitive Advantage
• Discover new opportunities to create exceptional value

 Creativity and Innovation

• Critical Thinking: Knowing which innovative ideas will deliver the greatest impact
• Implementing a Culture of Innovation
• Encouraging New Ideas and Breakthrough Solutions

Personal Action Plan

• How to keep going and doing it right.