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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.

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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.
  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

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
  • Find out what people expect and respect in a leader
  • Learn how to motivate a team, including “difficult people
  • 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

Programme Details

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

Seventeen Programme Modules

  • Discuss which qualities senior management looks for in candidates for leadership positions
  • Understand the challenges you will face
  • Discover your leadership style
  • Learn to adapt your style to the needs of others
  • 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
  • Identify a leader’s sources of power and influence
  • Illustrate ways that leaders can build their power and influence
  • Explain strategies for getting others to support your agenda
  • Assess the things that really motivate
  • Design your strategies for being noticed and selected to be a leader
  • Determining a frame of reference for strategic planning concepts
  • Schools of thought in strategic planning
  • The evolution of strategy
  • Basic elements of strategic planning
  • Developing and managing the strategy formation process
  • Your organization’s core values
  • Creating an inspiring mission statement for your own organization
  • Identifying macro and micro factors
  • Responding to changes in the environment
  • The I/P (Importance/Performance) matrix as a competitive tool
  • How to become a high-performing organization
  • Financial elements of developing strategy
  • Data synthesis
  • SWOT analysis
  • Defining your competitive advantage
  • The product/industry/life-cycle curve
  • Understanding mega pattern
  • Creating organizational accountability
  • How to translate the grand design into well-executed strategic planning
  • Key building blocks
  • Learning the three core processes
  • Understanding resource allocation and strategy formation
  • Determining the best processes for your business
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Hausmann

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