Visionary Leadership and Strategic Change
Place: London
October 17- October 21 \ 2022
Introduction
This inspirational course will help delegates develop action plans to improve their leadership effectiveness, empower their team to achieve excellent results and create the culture of responsible ownership. With a focus on key leadership competencies such as Emotional Intelligence, motivation and powerful leadership communication, this course will enhance delegates’ strategic thinking and provide the skills to lead with greater impact.
Delegates will identify their leadership vision to help them impact on their organization's performance and achievement.
From a leader’s perspective, to keep your team focused on what they are trying to do is certainly a rising challenge in today’s business world. The ability to create a vision to paint a picture of the future that people buy into is a trademark of leadership expertise. And, it really is like painting a picture of what the future will look like. It’s a leader’s ability to get an emotional buy-in from the people who are hearing that vision into that picture and also their understanding and belief that they can make a contribution to its realization. In organizations, a vision statement articulates what the organization aspires to achieve.
Objectives
Participants attending the training seminar will:
Ü Understand and utilise a clear and defined vision
Ü Employ more impactful methods of strategic thinking
Ü Identify performance targets and opportunities
Ü Recognize the impact of their own leadership style
Ü Understand the importance of Emotional Intelligence
Ü Lead the change process with authority
Ü Deliver positive and negative feedback effectively
Ü Appreciate the importance of leadership communication and influence
Ü Identify and enhance team capabilities
Ü What is visionary leadership?
Ü Why visionary leadership is important?
Ü Know if you are a visionary leader
Ü The attributes of visionary leadership
Ü The five hallmark attributes that must exist in every visionary leader
Ü Understand how to get organized and working together
Ü Learn demanding components that build and retain success
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for Directors, Managers, Senior Executives and all those responsible for developing and implementing the organisational vision and
successful strategies. Those who wish to enhance their practical leadership and management skills to achieve outstanding results will benefit from attending this course.
Course Methodology
The course uses self-assessments and a wide mix of business cases that promote healthy discussions around the importance of managing multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities. Participants will benefit from role plays covering workplace challenges related to handling tasks, deadlines and priorities. They will learn how to deal with conflicts that may arise as a result. Interactive team exercises are also used with each team presenting their findings and comments.
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
Pre and Post Test
Outline
DAY 1:
Being a Visionary Leader
Ü What must leaders do to respond to change/transition and ensure their companies thrive and survive?
Ü What is visionary leadership and why is it important?
Ü What must visionary leaders do…and not do?
Ü Strategies cannot be created without vision. Vision’s must conform to what is known as the ‘three R’s’
Ü What finally is the goal of the vision? What is the most important point in the vision?
Ü What is the difference between leadership and management? What is the chief responsibility of a leader? What are the pillars of leadership?
DAY 2 :
Visionary Leadership Attributes
Ü The two components to being a leader
Ü The 5 hallmark attributes that must exist in
a visionary leader
Ü Resilience
Ü Focus
Ü Vision
Ü Discipline
Ü Collaboration
Getting Organized and Working Together
Ü Reaping the benefits of teamwork
Ü The difference between teams and workgroups
Ü Why teams fail and how to proactively prevent these failures
Ü Identifying the qualities of effective team members and team leaders
Ü Deciding how to move a team forward based on its stage of development
DAY 3 :
Essential Leadership Skills
Ü Aligning the vision with strategies, values, processes, and, of course, employees
Ü Obtain breakthrough results
Ü Create a high performing team
Ü Create loyal (internal and external) customers
Critical Elements that Build and Sustain Success
Ü Measures for evaluating your organization’s critical competencies
Ü create a workforce where team members can relate their activities to the goals and strategic objectives of the company
Ü Give descriptions of common company pathologies as the “Phantom Limb Syndrome”, “Strategy Interruptus” and “Dead Man Walking.”
Ü Steps for getting your organization on track towards a single shared vision of its goals.
DAY 4 :
Advocacy for Change Leadership
Ü Effective Teaching
Ü Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Ü Organizational Change and Strategic Human Resource Management
Ü Civil Society
Ü Organizational Governance
Ü Philanthropy & Resource Development
Ü Policy Development & Analysis
Ü Structural Equation Modeling
Ü Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Ü Mixed Methods
DAY 5:
Organizational Accountability
Ü Organizational Accountability and Leadership
Ü Advanced Leadership Dynamics
Ü Externship in Advanced Leadership
Ü Leadership and Strategic Commitment
Ü The Moderating Role of Team Manager Strategic Alignment With the CEO
Ü The CEO underlined the importance of
strategic consensus
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
Fees:
The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is: 5.250USD$