Strategic Leadership Programme

 Day 1: Managing Your Team’s Aspirations

• Setting effective goals for your team

• How to prepare for brainstorming sessions

• Inspiring your team to generate ideas so you can benefit from everyone’s inputs

         Systematic Planning

• Why are some managers are known to be too confusing or demanding? How can you avoid this?

• the 5-step planning technique and how can it be used for problem solving, brainstorming and general planning

• Using business planning guidelines to improve your leadership

          Giving a Speech

• Public speaking and presentation skills

• How can these strategies benefit you when addressing your team?

• Open your speeches with impact, whether addressing your team, your clients, your stakeholders or giving public talks

Day 2: Crisis Management

• What is a crisis?
• Types of crises and the qualities of each type
• What do you need to consider when handling a crisis?
• Planning for crisis management?
• Contingency planning
• Risk management
• Responding to risks and incorporating these into your contingency plans
• Critical decision making in relation to crisis management

Day 3: Managing People

• Improve your communication skills with your team by putting yourself in their position
• Strategies to gather more information about difficult cases, before expressing your dissatisfaction or saying something that you could regret afterwards.
• Understanding people’s perspective and their capabilities
• Motivating your team
• Problem solving

         Delegation Skills

• Levels of delegation and what can be delegates in each level
• Selecting a delegation level based on how much control you want to retain and how much time you want to save
• What strategies help you formulate your request when delegating a task to motivate the person?
• Minimising disruption to other team members so you can manage your team effectively as a whole

Day 4: Goal Oriented Thinking

• Where do you want to take your team?
• How will you take them there? 

          Strategy

• The difference between leading and managing
• Staying focussed

          Networking 

• Making new contacts
• Building rapport
• Interacting with team members and stakeholders to satisfy their different needs
• Keeping records

Day: Influence

• Influencing techniques 
• Logical persuading
• Socializing ideas
• Consulting
• Appealing to values

          Action Planning

• Goals
• Strategy
• Plan