Leadership & Business Strategy

Develop the best strategic plans to support your company’s goals and future growth. Step into a new leadership role by discovering your unique leadership style to build a productive and motivated team.

 

Module 1 (3 Days)
Business Strategy & Planning for Managers

Key Competencies

  • Strategic planning
  • Strategic alignment
  • Understanding mega patterns
  • Strategy & finance
  • Business planning
  • Risk management

Learn, Practice and Use

  • 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
  • Determine the best approach to effectively implement your strategic planning

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Solving Real Workplace Communication Issues

  • Recognize the role of communicating in developing influence and improved productivity
  • Identify your specific workplace up/down/across communication challenges as focal points

Putting the Best “You” Forward

  • Exhibit a strong sense of confidence and external image
  • Create and maintain credibility and trust with others
  • Apply strategies to build and use rapport with colleagues

Targeting your Message to the Audience

  • Analyse the audience to create messages that address listeners’ specific needs
  • Assess and speak to others’ organizational positions, roles, and responsibilities
  • Create multidimensional messages that speak to both the mind and the heart of listeners

Targeting your Message to the Situation

  • Identify the best uses of various forms of communication technologies
  • Choose the most appropriate communication channel to be effective in various work situations
  • Assess and plan effective messaging in teams and groups when up, down, and across members are all present

Framing the Message

  • Apply message framing strategies to create an open and responsive communication environment
  • Assess influencing preferences and situational needs to impact personal persuasive ability
  • Practice skills for delivering messages that promote clear and productive communication

Motivating and Influencing Throughout the Organization

  • Build productivity by applying up, down, and across motivational communication strategies
  • Evaluate and practice various motivational, informative, and influencing presentation formats

Module 2 (2 Days)
Preparing for Leadership

Key Competencies

  • Motivating your team
  • Becoming a great leader
  • Planning your role as a leader
  • Building relationships
  • Managing organizational politics

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
  • Apply lessons learned through leadership training to refine your skills in gaining and using power and influence positively
  • Learn how to motivate a team, including “difficult people”
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE’s highly experienced faculty

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Basic Accounting Concepts

  • The Importance of the Accounting Equation
  • The Accrual Process
  • The Difference Between Accounting Profit and Cash Flow

Understanding Financial Statements

  • Understand the Purpose of and Terminology Associated with the Following Financial Statements
  • Income Statement or Profit and Loss Statement (P&L):
    • Balance Sheet
    • Statement of Retained Earnings
    • Cash Flow Statement
  • Prepare a Set of Simple Financial Statements
  • Understand the Accounting Process, from the Recording of Business Transactions to the Preparation of Financial Statements
  • Understand How Various Business Transactions Affect the Financial Statements

Reviewing an Annual Report

  • Various Components of an Annual Report
  • Importance of Notes in Evaluating Financial Statements
  • ​​​​External Auditor’s Role and the Significance of the Opinion Letter

Evaluating a Company’s Financial Statements

  • ​​​Calculate the Key Financial Ratios Using the Financial Statements
  • Use Financial Ratios to Evaluate:
    • An Organization’s Liquidity, Leverage and Profitability
    • The Performance of an Organization as Compared to Its Competitors’
    • An Organization’s Performance Compared with Budgeted Goals
  • Identify Sources of Financial Information Beyond the Financial Statements
  • Use the Dupont Formula to Evaluate Management Performance
  • Use the Concept of Economic Value Added (EVA(R)) and Cash Flow Return on Investment (CFROI) to Determine if a Segment of an Organization Is Adding Value to the Business

Improving Profitability Through Cost Analysis and Profit Planning

  • Differentiate Between Fixed and Variable Costs
  • Help Your Organization Improve Profitability Through the Use of:
    • Break-Even Analysis
    • ​​​​​​Contribution Margin Analysis
    • Direct Costing in Appropriate
  • Understand Traditional Cost Accounting and Its Limitations
  • Understand the Relevance of Activity-Based Costing in Today’s Business Environment

Capital Expenditure Analysis

  • Distinguish Between Capital Expenditure Budgets and Operating Budgets and Understand the Function of the Capital Budget
  • Understand Why Cash Has a Time Value
  • Recognize and Apply Different Methods of Evaluating Capital Expenditure and Monitoring Project Performance

Budgeting More Effectively

  • Understand the Role of Budgeting and Issues That Budgets Can Solve
  • Understand the Budgeting Process
  • Identify Different Types of Budgeting Systems in Use Today
  • Analyze Budgets for Different Purposes
  • Recognize and Apply Different Methods of Evaluating and Monitoring Operating Performance

Dates & Locations

12 Jun – 16 Jun (Barcelona)
24 Jul – 28 Jul (London)
25 Sep – 28 Sep (Frankfurt) 
27 Nov – 1 Dec (London)

Duration

5 Day(s)

Price

€3995

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