• Istanbul

    Istanbul

Creative strategic IT Leadership

Objectives

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

  • Set out their personal leadership brand
  • Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential
  • Articulate a vision using multiple sensory representations
  • Identify critical components of a strategically-aligned IT department
  • Evaluate technology solutions, vendor selection and outsourcing
  • Leaders at all levels who can develop and communicate a shared vision are better able to engage and motivate their teams and can focus on longer-term organisational and customer needs.
  • IT professionals who can align IT and corporate strategy are better able to demonstrate the return on investment of their function.
  • Delegates develop and implement visionary, innovative and effective IT strategies that support the corporate vision and contribute demonstrably to its success.
  • Participants will be challenged to explore and articulate a personal vision of the future based on aligned and coherent values within and beyond the boundaries of their professional sphere.
  • Clear sense of personal and professional vision of the future
  • Aligned and coherent personal values
  • Stronger personal self-confidence levels
  • Opportunities for networking and sharing ideas will provide a further catalyst to personal growth.

                                                                            

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

 

  •  IT Professionals from both technical and management backgrounds, including those who oversee IT operations, networks/systems and IT projects.
  • Technical professionals who have been – or are about to be – promoted to an IT management position, and experienced managers who are new to the technical environment.
  • All Professionals wanting to forge innovative approaches to their profession: managers searching for breakthrough ideas and tools they can use to harness the creativity in others within their organisation.
  • Senior Management Professionals
  • Team Leaders

Outline:

Creative Problem-Solving & Overcoming Personal Blockers to creativity

  • Leadership Reality Assessment
  • Leadership Vs Management
  • Understanding Our Brain Function
  • Myths of Creativity
  • The limitations of the rational
  • Divergent approaches to problem-solving
  • Letting go of logic
  • Analogous thinking modes
  • Convergent and divergent modes
  • Sigmoid Curve - Lifecycle Model
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Breakthrough step change
  • Self-awareness and the nature of the ego
  • Personal goal alignment
  • Adaption and innovation: personal preferences for creating meaning
  • Exploring attitudes to risk
  • Left- and right-brain thinking

Developing the Vision Creatively

  • Six thinking hats
  • Using differing thinking styles
  • JoHari’s window
  • The business plan process & creating a vision
  • Harnessing the power of the team
  • Organisational culture and its influence on innovation
  • Letting go of the ego
  • Working with different creative preferences

 

Leading and Managing the IT Department

  • Understand the challenges of the IT manager
  • How to value IT services
  • Communicate IT value to upper management, peers and end-users.
  • Understand the responsibilities of the IT team leader.

 

Managing Technology

  • Understand the Strategy for Managing Existing Technology
  • Know when to develop and adopt New Technologies
  • Be Aware of how to manage assets effectively.  

 

Strategic Decision Making & Using Influence

  • Understand the different types of influential power.
  • Be aware of the various influence strategies
  • Select the most effective influence strategy for the situation
  • Understanding negotiations, tactics and techniques.
  • Use influence effectively to thrive as an IT manager
  • Apply strategic decision making
  • Recognizing strategic decisions and initiatives.
  • Apply strategic decision making to vendor selection
  • Understand when to outsource

 

Developing the IT Strategic Plan and Budget

  • Using the mission as an IT driver
  • Defining the customer profile
  • understanding the partnership model
  • Creating a strategic plan
  • Planning and budgeting issues

 

Managing IT Quality

  • Understanding the importance of managing by process
  • Understand the definitions of quality
  • Applying maturity models
  • Using process management
  • Applying international standards

 

Building the IT Management Team

  • Evaluating IT performance and metrics
  • Understanding delegation and motivation
  • Team building
  • Managing the management team and stakeholders.

 

IT Project Management

  • The Importance of Project Management
  • Defining Project Manager talents and skills
  • Understanding the principles of Project Management

 

IT Performance Metrics

  • Developing a measurement strategy
  • Creating a “Best Practices” based organization
  • Deploy metrics
  • Managing by facts and results
  • Integrate metrics into the strategic plan

Training Methodology:
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total
tuition hours:-
• 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
• 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
• 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
• 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions

Certificates

A Certificate of Completion will be issued to those who attend & successfully complete the programme.

Schedule

  08:30 – 10:15 First Session

 10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:15 Second Session

 12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 14:00 Third Session

 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch

 Fees

 The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is:

 

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