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MCE Week: Managing People & Strategic Planning

Are you responsible for both strategic planning and managing a team?

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The Key Issues

In this programme, you will learn how to create a strategic business plan, analyze your environment, and align your initiatives with your company’s goals, while also mastering the people management skills needed to motivate, delegate, resolve conflicts, and build team accountability. Walk away with practical tools and confidence to excel in both strategy and team leadership.

Strategic
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Making strategic decisions

Managing stakeholders

Key Competences​

Market segmentation skills

Linking actions to strategy

7 strategic planning models

The Right Programme for You

You are a manager or team leader whose success depends on managing people successfully through clear communication, a cooperative attitude and commitment to shared goals. You need to plan for strategy or you work closely with colleagues who develop strategy. This programme gives you the essential strategic planning skills you need.

 

  • Business Professionals
Specialists, engineers, chemists, technical staff, logistics, commercial positions, project managers etc.
  • New Managers
Managers of teams including team leaders with up to 3 years' experience in this role
  • Managers
Managers of teams and departments with more than 3 years' experience in this role
  • Senior Managers
Managers of managers, countries, divisions, regions companies with more than 10 years of senior management experience

Highlights

Determine your own personal style profile and gain insights into the strengths and limitations of your profile.

Identify and build on the strengths of your team's culture.

Learn 6 tools and techniques to conduct both external and internal assessments.

Use the 5 stages of a classic strategic planning framework.​

Use SWOTs & critical success factors to make decisions.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Understand what strategy and strategic planning mean to an organization
  • Learn key concepts and the language used by those involved in strategic planning
  • Motivate every member of your team—even if they are very different
  • Adjust your management and personal style to the needs of different situations
  • Resolve conflict more effectively in a wide variety of situations
  • Get more done by using the best delegation techniques for each situation
  • Turn difficult people and poor performers into team players
  • Win the cooperation and trust from people in your organization
  • Find out how strategy moves from concept through implementation to realization
  • Recognize techniques companies use to assess their current and future environments
  • Identify specific ways you can contribute to your organization’s strategic success
  • Learn and practice the 5 stages of a classic strategic planning framework

Programme Details

Managing People & Strategic Planning is a highly interactive programme with exercises and role plays

Eighteen Programme Modules

1 | The Experience of Being a Manager

  • How to get people to want to do what they’re supposed to do
  • Specific challenges you face when motivating others.

2 | Values

  • Values and their impact on work life
  • How values can have productive and non-productive results
  • Identify value conflicts in yourself and in others

3 | Personal Styles

  • Determine your own personal style profile
  • Gain insight into the strengths and limitations of your profile
  • Use behavioural clues to determine others’ personal styles
  • How to work more effectively with other personal profiles

4 | Motivation

  • Employee motivation factors and their impact on behaviours and work settings
  • How to tailor your motivational efforts to individual employees and different situations

5 | Listening, Body Language, Giving Feedback, and Dealing with Difficult People

  • Use active listening to gain information and understand employees’ perspectives
  • Effectively apply positive and corrective feedback
  • Use appropriate values alignment when dealing with difficult employees

6 | Conflict Management

  • The dimensions of conflict resolution
  • Identify your own preferred conflict-resolution styles for better conflict management
  • Use different conflict resolution styles in different situations

7 | Delegation

  • Different delegation styles: How and when to use them
  • Determine the appropriate delegation style for employees and situations

8 | Understanding Organizational Culture and Subculture

  • The impact of organizational culture and subculture and “cultural blinders”
  • Explore the assumptions that impact your team’s thinking and actions
  • Identify and build on the strengths of your team’s culture

9 | Emotional Intelligence

  • The components of emotional intelligence
  • Gain an honest and accurate assessment of yourself
  • Develop an improvement strategy

10 | Ethical Leadership

  • Identify your group’s values
  • Your vision for ethical leadership

11 | Action Planning

  • Develop a specific plan for applying what you’ve learned back on the job
  • Identify people who can support your action plans

12 | Define Strategic Planning and Strategy

  • Identify Five Key Questions for Organizational Success
  • Recognize a Generic Process for Strategy Formation
  • Determine Key Stakeholders
  • Describe How Strategy Permeates the Organization

13 | Why Organizations Create Strategy

  • Recognize the Grand Design Within the Organization
  • Explain the Significance of the Environments Affecting the Organization
  • Discuss Growth and Profit Strategies
    • Describe Various Market Segmentations
  • Identify How Organizations Create Value for Their Customers and Stakeholders
  • Express How an Organization Decides It Value Proposition
  • State Why It Is Important to Link Your Actions to Strategy

14 | The Strategic Planning Process in Action

  • Identify the Five Stages of a Classic Strategic Planning Framework
  • Describe How Strategy Works in an Organization
  • Articulate the Highlights and Time Requirements of the Process
  • Recognize Your Role in Your Organization’s Strategic Plans

15 | Assessing the Environment

  • Identify Strategic Patterns in the Environment
  • Explain and Anticipate Patterns
  • Express Why Assessing the Environment Is Important
  • Describe Six Tools/Techniques for Conducting External and Internal Assessments

16 | Three Ds of Strategy—Discussions, Decisions and Development

  • Review Key Stages of the Strategic Planning Process
  • Describe How SWOTs, Core Competencies and Critical Success Factors Are Incorporated into the Strategic Discussions
  • Appreciate the Rationale Behind Strategic Decisions

17 | Implementing and Reviewing Strategy

  • Discuss Strategic Alignment and What It Means to an Organization
  • Identify the Ways an Organization Creates Strategic Alignment
  • Develop a Series of Questions to Facilitate Strategic Conversations
  • Recognize Accountability Systems
  • Identify Reward and Recognition Incentives for Success
  • Express Why, When and How Often Strategy Should Be Reviewed

18 | Alternative Approaches to Create Strategy

  • Identify Seven Strategic Planning Approaches
  • Discuss Which Approach Would Best Fit Your Organization
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"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

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Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

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“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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