INTRODUCTION

This Creative Strategic Planning & Leadership training seminar is designed to provide leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximise their own and their team’s creative potential in a strategic context. Its starting-point is self-discovery: participants will work on the inside first and then focus outwards to impact on the world of business.

The focus of the first Half of the training  Management & Leadership training seminar will be on thinking in different ways. Participants should be prepared to move out of their comfort zone and experiment with new ways of creating and communicating an inspiring leadership vision.

The last half helps demystify the frequently-misunderstood concept of ‘strategy’. Whilst focusing on the analytical disciplines on which successful strategy is based, it centres on strategic planning as a value-adding process which harnesses the leader’s and the team’s ability to combine analysis with creative thinking and enables ideas and plans to be nurtured through to reality.

• Demonstrating how to balance analytical and creative thinking in plans and decisions
• Understanding how to discover and focus the creative capabilities of teams and individuals
• Understanding the linkage between operational and strategic management
• Aligning your own responsibilities and objectives with the strategy of your organisation
• Improving personal leadership and management competencies

OBJECTIVES

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

• Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential
• Communicate your vision in refreshing and engaging ways
• Define the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’
• Understand and explain visionary thinking as part of the strategic process and apply strategic planning to your own management issues
• Place your own part of the organisation within the overall context of corporate strategy
• Gain confidence in managing your own contribution to strategic implementation

ORGANISATIONAL IMPACT

• Leaders at all levels who can develop and communicate a shared vision
• Leaders who can engage and motivate their teams
• Increased effectiveness against personal KPI’s through more effective use of team
• Much better decision-taking and time / resource allocation - leading to better organizational and individual performance
• Introduction of strategic thinking into new levels of the organization
• Top management having more confidence in the ability and judgement of its operating managers and the staff will have a better appreciation of the need and content of organizational change

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Senior Management Professionals, Team Leaders, Supervisors and All Professionals who are responsible for driving company growth by creating or eliciting new ideas and paradigms. Alternatively, you may be stuck with your own ‘logical’ career journey and seeking an opportunity to explore beyond its boundaries

Anyone who wants to forge innovative approaches to communications, or to human resource and training managers searching for breakthrough ideas and tools they can use to harness the creativity in others within their organization