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Strategic Development: Thinking, Planning, Managing and Leading

Seminar / Training Strategic Development: Thinking, Planning, Managing and Leading

Strategic thinking

  • The meaning of 'strategic
  • Three core areas of business strategy
  • Process, Content Context
  • Process for linking the three core areas

The challenges of leadership

  • Management and leadership
  • Theories of leadership
  • Expectations of leaders and their employees
  • Recognising leadership traits
  • What makes a good leader?
  • Inspiration, impact and charisma in leadership versus the "loner
  • Transformational leadership

Establishing a vision

  • Mission' vs. 'Vision
  • Why strategic plans fail and how to avoid failure
  • Agreeing a robust vision
  • The need for clarity and measurability
  • Gaining acceptance for the vision

Becoming strategic

  • Strategic planning and thinking
  • Developing techniques for strategic thinking
  • Communication
  • Identifying critical skills needed for success

Analysing the current business environment and influences

  • External environments
  • The general environment
  • What are the main influences
  • Business cycles Product/service
  • Customer analysis

Organisational analysis

  • The holistic approach
  • Silo problems
  • Cross-organisational assessment
  • Assessment:
  • Finance, human resources, operations, systems, style

Motivation & Change Management

  • Motivation Theory
  • Practical Motivation
  • Money as a motivator
  • Agents of change
  • Resistance to change
  • The DREC curve
  • Approaches to change management

Defining the strategy

  • Turning vision into reality
  • Creating a strategic movement
  • Developing strategic options
  • Strategy implications
  • Identifying stakeholders
  • Cross-organizational buy-in
  • Potential areas of conflict
  • Debunking objections

Projects and measuring success

  • New projects vs. business as usual
  • The need for KPM's
  • Approaches to measurement
  • Using the scorecard approach
  • Key business drivers and traceability
  • Hard & soft measures
  • Establishing a metrics framework
  • Project tracking
  • Risk reporting

The implementation process

  • Resource allocation, strategic planning and control
  • Planning tools
  • Objectives
  • Tasks
  • Communication
  • Resource allocation
  • Resource characteristics
  • Team structure
  • Projects vs. 'Business as Usual

Managing strategic change including conflict management

  • The need for conflict - is it healthy?
  • Conflict as a problem
  • The causes of conflict
  • Managing, mitigating and/or avoiding conflict
  • The impact of change and managing the effects
  • Selling the benefits of change to the organisation
  • Minimising the downside
  • Keeping the plan on track

Assessing your team

  • Preparatory work
  • Personnel files
  • Work records
  • Other colleagues
  • Meetings
  • Discussion groups & forums

Dealing with people

  • Leadership styles
  • Behavioural styles
  • Cultural style of the Bank
  • Bank and management style
  • Your personal style
  • Meetings
  • One-to-one meetings
  • Overcoming resistance
  • Dealing with your own bosses
  • Selling issues and challenges to your team

Communication skills

  • Different styles
  • Business/management style
  • Oral, written, electronic
  • Encourage two-way communication
  • Encourage esprit de corps
  • Use "top down" directives
  • Dealing with resistance

Leadership styles

  • Textbook definitions
  • Your preferred style
  • Your institutional style, your boss's style
  • What works best for your department
  • What works best for your team

The role of a manager

  • The step from team member to manager
  • The role in making sure my team achieves team goals
  • Making sure the team is continually improving
  • Managing the whole role - time management & effective goal setting
  • Presence as a leader - what a leader looks like
  • The impact of leadership behaviour - on the team, on each team member
  • The focus of the effective supervisor

Dealing with problems

  • Dealing with informal, semi-formal and formal problems
  • Methods of problem solving
  • Seeking help and guidance
  • Solution
  • Forwarding

Motivation

  • Basic motivational factors
  • Creating the right environment
  • Carrot and stick approach
  • Caring
  • Patronage

Delegation

  • The art of delegation
  • When to delegate
  • Monitoring
  • Avoiding overkill
  • Monitoring
  • What is trade finance?

Staff appraisals

  • Importance
  • Objective
  • Compensation considerations
  • Appraisal
  • Encouragement and guidance
  • Dealing with weaknesses

Conflict & Resolution

  • Main causes
  • Methods for resolution
  • Involve management
  • Dealing with challenges to your authority
  • Formal procedures

Requirements

no prerequisites

This seminar has the level "Administration / Basics".

If you are not sure whether this course is the right level for you, you can check this with the trainer in advance.

We conduct this seminar online for you. You can book the training as a public seminar or as a company seminar. The practical exercises are carried out in our Remotelab and make up 40-50 percent of the seminar.

Your contacts

  • Promise Akachukwu Kelechi

    E-Mail:
    Phone: +234 1 227 9218

  • Peter Chidiebere Ugochukuw

    E-Mail:
    Phone: +234 1 227 9218

  • Raphael Chukuwgozie Ndubuisi

    E-Mail:
    Phone: +234 1 227 9218

What makes our seminars different?

We offer seminars with a high practical relevance. The contents and exercises are geared to your daily tasks in the company and completely dispense with advertising references to other products of the software manufacturer.

All our training courses are manufacturer-independent. This enables us to offer critical considerations of the products themselves and comparisons with competitors of the manufacturer in the seminar. The course contents are our own and derived from the practical experience of our trainers in projects.

Of course, the contents of company seminars can be individually adapted to your needs. Please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Duration 5 Days, approx. 6h/Day
1. Day: 10:00 Clock, more from 09:00 Clock
Price ₦ 1.179.610,00 plus VAT.
Seminar documents Original documentation of the manufacturer on data carrier / download / weblink
Certificate of attendance yes, of course
Barrier free access Available at most locations
Catering Cold / hot drinks, lunch (optional vegetarian) - not for company and online seminars
Support 3 calls included in the seminar price
Methods Lecture, demonstration, practical exercises on the system
Seminar types With trainer on site: Public or in-house - Alternatively orderable as webinar
Implementation guarantee yes, from 2 participants, max. 8 participants, Details

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Duration 5 Days, approx. 6h/Tag
1. Day: 10:00 Clock, more from 09:00 Clock
Price ₦ 3.262.751,00 plus VAT.
Seminar documents Original documentation of the manufacturer on data carrier / download / weblink
Certificate of attendance yes, of course
Barrier free access Available at most locations
Catering Cold / hot drinks, lunch (optional vegetarian) - not for company and online seminars
Support 3 calls included in the seminar price
Methods Lecture, demonstration, practical exercises on the system
Seminar types With trainer on site: Public or in-house - Alternatively orderable as webinar
Implementation guarantee yes, from 2 participants, max. 8 participants, Details

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Duration 5 Days, approx. 6h/Tag
1. Day: 10:00 Clock, more from 09:00 Clock
Price ₦ 1.179.610,00 plus VAT.
Seminar documents Original documentation of the manufacturer on data carrier / download / weblink
Certificate of attendance yes, of course
Barrier free access Available at most locations
Catering Cold / hot drinks, lunch (optional vegetarian) - not for company and online seminars
Support 3 calls included in the seminar price
Methods Lecture, demonstration, practical exercises on the system
Seminar types With trainer on site: Public or in-house - Alternatively orderable as webinar
Implementation guarantee yes, from 2 participants, max. 8 participants, Details

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