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MCE Week: Preparing for Leadership & Business Strategy

Learn to communicate as a leader to gain trust, inspire loyalty, and get buy-in while developing strategic plans that drive your company’s goals and future growth.

The Key Issues

In today’s fast-changing and complex business world, managers are expected to do more than just manage—they need to lead, motivate, and drive results in uncertain environments. At the same time, they must think strategically to respond to new challenges, shifting markets, and increasing competition. How do you inspire your team and get their buy-in? How do you set the right direction and make the right strategic choices? To succeed, you need to combine strong leadership with structured, analytical thinking—and use the right tools to lead your people and your business forward.

Motivating your team

Becoming a great leader

Planning your role as a leader

Key Competences

Understanding mega patterns

Strategic
planning

Strategic alignment

The Right Programme for You

You are a manager who is moving into a new leadership role. You need to develop key leadership skills and develop new strategies for the future. This programme prepares you for this new role.

Highlights

Discover your own personal leadership style and learn to adapt your style to the needs of others

Learn and use methods to plan for the first day, week, month and year of your new leadership role

Use the I/P (importance/performance) matrix as a competitive tool for your organization

Explore the product/industry/life-cycle curve

Translate big ideas into a well-executed strategic planning

Learn, Practice and Use

Understand what a leader is…and is not
Discover your own unique leadership style and project a more dynamic image
Determine which leadership attributes you already possess
Apply lessons learned through leadership training to take on your first leadership position with greater confidence
Get noticed by learning how to look and talk like a leader

Identify strategic planning issues in order to develop a unique competitive advantage
Learn key analytical and conceptual approaches
Align your organization with your strategic planning goals by integrating strategy, objectives,metrics, and performance
Identify evolving strategic patterns and generate ideas
Incorporate customer needs into your strategic planning
Use a case study to examine the strategic planning process in detail
Recognize how the actions of customers, competitors, and your own company determine the outcomes in your markets
Improve your leadership communication skills

Programme Details

Leadership & Business Strategy is a highly interactive programme with exercises and role plays.

Seventeen Programme Modules

1 | Is There a Leader in You?

Discuss which qualities senior management looks for in candidates for leadership positions
Understand the challenges you will face

2 | What Do Leaders Talk About?

Discover your leadership style
Learn to adapt your style to the needs of others

3 | What Is Your Leadership Image?

Describe how to project the positive professional image of a leader
Understand the Importance of Trust and Its Effects on Followers
Build Relationships of Trust with Those You Lead

4 | How Can You Build Your Influence and Power?

Identify a leader’s sources of power and influence
Illustrate ways that leaders can build their power and influence

5 | How Should You Handle Organizational Politics?

Explain strategies for getting others to support your agenda

6 | How Can You Motivate People?

Assess the things that really motivate

7 | Methods to Approach the First Day, Week, Month and Year of Leadership

Design your strategies for being noticed and selected to be a leader

8 | Strategic Planning Principle

Determining a frame of reference for strategic planning concepts
Schools of thought in strategic planning
The evolution of strategy

9 | An Overview of the Strategic Planning Process

Basic elements of strategic planning
Developing and managing the strategy formation process

10 | Understanding Your Organization’s Mission

Your organization’s core values
Creating an inspiring mission statement for your own organization

11 | Assessing the External Environment

Identifying macro and micro factors
Responding to changes in the environment
The I/P (Importance/Performance) matrix as a competitive tool

12 | Understanding Your Internal Environment

How to become a high-performing organization
Financial elements of developing strategy

13 | Formulating Your Strategic Planning

Data synthesis
SWOT analysis

14 | Competitive Strategic Planning

Defining your competitive advantage
The product/industry/life-cycle curve
Understanding mega pattern

15 | Ensuring Strategic Alignment

Creating organizational accountability
How to translate the grand design into well-executed strategic planning

16 | Strategic Planning Execution

Key building blocks
Learning the three core processes
Understanding resource allocation and strategy formation

17 | A Strategic Planning Process

Determining the best processes for your business

Faculty

Bettina
Hausmann

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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

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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MCE Week: Preparing for Leadership & Business Strategy

The Key Issues

Motivating your team

Becoming a great leader

Planning your role as a leader

Key Competences​

Understanding mega patterns

Strategic planning

Strategic alignment

The Right Programme for You

Highlights

Learn and use methods to plan for the first day, week, month and year of your new leadership role

Use the I/P (importance/performance) matrix as a competitive tool for your organization

Explore the product/industry/life-cycle curve

Translate big ideas into a well-executed strategic planning

Learn, Practice and Use

Programme Details

Seventeen Programme Modules

Faculty

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

Upcoming Programmes

Contact Us

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Testimonials

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

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

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

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

Testimonials

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

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

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

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

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