Corporate Leadership

Course Overview

Course Objectives

• Essential characteristics of a great leader including familiarization Leadership Competency Framework and Values.
• The stages in leadership.
• Strategic Dimension
• Drive for Results (Results Orientation)
• Empowerment as a key element of leadership.
• Change Management.
• Change Leadership
• Leadership styles.
• Leaving a Leadership Legacy.

Course Methodology

• Interactive Lecture
• Exercises including pre-& post- test
• Illustrative Videos
• Activities
• Presentation
• Discussion
• Question and Answer
• Templates

Course Contents

Day 1:

Module 1: Strategic Dimension

Integrating Leadership Competency Framework

• Strategic Creative Thinking
• Vision and mission
• Contribute to the development of the organization's strategic business plan, including mission, vision and values.
• Purpose and potential
• Develop the strategic objectives, plans, key performance indicators (KPI's) and targets.
• Maximizing personal impact
• Mindset and resilience
• Develop the link between strategic plan and the organizational budget.
• How to create alignment: personal, team and business goals
• Strategic Execution: the strategic business plan in a focused and disciplined manner.
• Risk Management through execution of the strategic business plan on various stakeholders

Day 2:

Module 2: Driving for Results

Results based leadership: a manager’s challenge

• Leadership and management: vital complementary roles
• The organizational pyramid of bottom line results
• Aligning business results with departmental results and individual results
• From vision and mission to key result areas, key performance indicators and balanced scorecard
• Making connections between high level organization statements and “on the ground” performance”
• A formula for results-based leadership: attributes times results
• The five practices of results-oriented leaders
• Roles and competencies of results-based leaders
• Employee Engagement

Day 3:

Module 3:    Continuous Improvement

Maximizing Performance and Continuous Improvement  

• What is Continuous Improvement?
• Continuous improvement is a philosophy of progressive evolution
• What is are the tools for continuous improvement?
• There are seven-parts to the continuous improvement cycle:
• Purpose, Plan, Implementation, Positive Feedback, Negative Feedback, Adapt, Return to Purpose
• Set SMART targets
• Improve your communication

Tools for Continuous Improvement

• Improve by perfect planning
• Improve by developing your systems
• Improve by creative problem-solving
• Improve by continuous learning
• Improve by the right targeting & applying metrics
• Improve by invention and innovation
• Improve by Planning for Change and Improvement
• Write your improvement action plan Building Processes and Skills to create a Results Culture

Day 4:

Module 4:    Change Leadership

Change Management and Change Leadership

• Change management - a set of basic tools or structures intended to keep any change effort under control Your Best and Worst Experiences
• Change leadership - the driving forces, visions and processes that fuel large-scale transformation Team Requirements
• A comprehensive overview of change leadership
• Change leadership is initiating change on a larger scale.
• Change management is concerned with order, timeliness, and budgets.
• Change leadership is a response to an urgent need for change.
• Change management integrates change into the status quo.
• Change leadership innovates and sets a vision for a new normal.
• Change management is encouraging people to adapt to change.
• Change leadership is empowering people to create change.

Day 5:

Change impacts on the business model

• Change management - facilitating the change process.
• Change leadership empowers action that allows change to take off.
• Change management - making change initiatives efficient.
• Change leadership - collaboration and seeking to inspire.
• Change management - controlling change.
• Change leadership - tolerating risk.