Strategic Leadership Programme

Today, more than ever, organisations must capitalise on a changing business environment, improve effectiveness and overall productivity, formulate, and implement a planning process, and make better strategic decisions. Leadership participants are then provided with a comprehensive range of approaches to focus, inspire, motivate, and enable their followers and staff to perform as outstanding individuals. After this, the program focuses on empowering the individual participants with a range of very powerful personal leadership and facilitation tools.

There is no doubt that this advanced leadership program is unique, and all attendees will return to their organizations immeasurably strengthened in their leadership capabilities. Londontfe's Strategic Leadership training will provide you with the skills you need to create and develop an effective strategic plan that gives specific direction and yet is flexible enough to change and modify.

Objective

By the end of this interactive training programme, you will be able to:

• Set effective goals for your team
• Use the 5-step planning technique to solve problems, prepare business plans and more
• Speak with confidence in public
• Manage risks and respond to crisis
• Improve your relationships with work colleagues through better communication skills
• Delegate and empower others to succeed
• Develop your team's performance
• Adjust your leadership style to match individual needs
• Think creatively and get everyone to contribute

Course Outline

Managing Your Team’s Aspirations

• Setting effective goals for your team
• How to prepare for brainstorming sessions
• Inspiring your team to generate ideas so you can benefit from everyone’s inputs

Systematic Planning

• Why are some managers are known to be too confusing or demanding? How can you avoid this?
• the 5-step planning technique and how can it be used for problem solving, brainstorming and general planning
• Using business planning guidelines to improve your leadership

Giving a Speech

• Public speaking and presentation skills
• How can these strategies benefit you when addressing your team?
• Open your speeches with impact, whether addressing your team, your clients, your stakeholders or giving public talks

Crisis Management

• What is a crisis?
• Types of crises and the qualities of each type
• What do you need to consider when handling a crisis?
• Planning for crisis management?
• Contingency planning
• Risk management
• Responding to risks and incorporating these into your contingency plans
• Critical decision making in relation to crisis management

Managing People

• Improve your communication skills with your team by putting yourself in their position
• Strategies to gather more information about difficult cases, before expressing your dissatisfaction or saying something that you could regret afterwards.
• Understanding people’s perspective and their capabilities
• Motivating your team
• Problem solving

Delegation Skills

• Levels of delegation and what can be delegates in each level
• Selecting a delegation level based on how much control you want to retain and how much time you want to save
• What strategies help you formulate your request when delegating a task to motivate the person?
• Minimising disruption to other team members so you can manage your team effectively as a whole

Goal Oriented Thinking

• Where do you want to take your team?
• How will you take them there?

Strategy

• The difference between leading and managing
• Staying focussed

Networking

• Making new contacts
• Building rapport
• Interacting with team members and stakeholders to satisfy their different needs
• Keeping records

Influence

• Influencing techniques
• Logical persuading
• Socializing ideas
• Consulting
• Appealing to values

Action Planning

• Goals
• Strategy
• Plan