Creative Strategic Planning and Leadership

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Start Date

2022-11-20

End Date

2022-12-01

City

Boston

Price

8500 $

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1-15

Hotel

Double Tree

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Introduction

This seminar is designed to provide leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximise their own and their team’s creative potential in a strategic context. Its starting-point is self-discovery: participants will work on the inside first and then focus outwards to impact on the world of business.

The focus of the first week of this 2-week seminar will be on thinking in different ways. Participants should be prepared to move out of their comfort zone and experiment with new ways of creating and communicating an inspiring leadership vision.

The second week helps demystify the frequently-misunderstood concept of ‘strategy’. Rather than viewing strategy as an academic exercise, it centres on strategic planning as a value-adding process which harnesses the leader’s and the team’s creativity and enables ideas to be nurtured through to reality.

Seminar Objectives

By the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

Select appropriate techniques for self-discovery;
Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential;
Articulate a vision using multiple sensory representations;
Communicate their vision in refreshing and engaging ways;
Explore the outer limits of group creativity;
Set out creative options for implementing change;
Define the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’;
Explain the strategic process as part of ‘Helicopter Thinking’;
Apply strategic planning to their own management issues;
Place strategy within the overall context of the organisation;
Gain confidence in managing their strategic role.

Training Methodology

This seminar uses a range of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual visioning exercises, case studies and syndicate discussions, to allow you to see and feel for yourself the power of the creative mind in a strategic context. Formal inputs are used to introduce a limited amount of underpinning theory. A key part of the learning process is sharing the differing experiences participants bring, as well as experimenting with novel – and sometimes challenging – techniques.

Organisational Impact

Creativity and innovation are at the heart of organisational performance. Leaders at all levels who can develop and communicate a shared vision are better able to engage and motivate their teams and can focus on longer-term organisational and customer needs. By taking the shared vision forwards, and focusing on the Task, individuals and team to complement the organisation, leaders can effectively bring about results by focusing on needs of the organisation, employee and customer.

Personal Impact

Participants will be challenged to explore and articulate a personal vision of the future based on aligned and coherent values. They will learn key elements of developing a strategic personal and professional brand, contributing to their ability to position themselves in the organisation to best effect; and acquire a new attitude in terms of thinking, motivation, behavioural flexibility and resolution. Opportunities for networking and sharing ideas will provide a further catalyst to personal growth.

Who Should Attend?

This seminar is designed for leaders and professionals who are responsible for driving company growth by creating or eliciting new ideas and paradigms. Alternatively, you may be stuck with your own ‘logical’ career journey and seeking an opportunity to explore beyond its boundaries.

It will also be of great benefit to anyone who wants to forge innovative approaches to communications, or to human resource and training managers searching for breakthrough ideas and tools they can use to harness the creativity in others within their organisation.

Programme Outline

Day 1 - Creative Problem-Solving

Leadership Reality Assessment
Leadership Vs Management
Understanding Our Brain Function
Myths of Creativity
The limitations of the rational
Divergent approaches to problem-solving
Letting go of logic
Analogous thinking modes
Convergent and divergent modes

Day 2 - Overcoming Personal Blockers to Creativity

Sigmoid Curve – Lifecycle Model
Continuous Improvement
Breakthrough step change
Self-awareness and the nature of the ego
Personal goal alignment
Adaption and innovation: personal preferences for creating meaning
Exploring attitudes to risk
Left- and right-brain thinking

Day 3 - Developing the Vision Creatively

Six thinking hats
Using differing thinking styles
JoHari’s window
The business plan process & creating a vision
Harnessing the power of the team
Organisational culture and its influence on innovation
Letting go of the ego
Working with different creative preferences

Day 4 - Communicating the Vision Creatively

The 7 Step Creative Process
Models of communication
Viral visioning
Authenticity and trust
Creativity tools, techniques & strategy
Letting go of the vision
Leading without directing
Possible leadership beliefs

Day 5 - From Ideas to Action: Creativity and Change

Motivation – Hierarchy of Needs
Overcoming organisational barriers to creativity and change
Nurturing a learning environment
Is Money a motivator?
Personality Profiling
Building a creative consensus
Engaging stakeholders creatively
Influencing and motivating through change

Day 6 - Strategic Thinking and Business Analysis

What are strategy and strategic planning?
Why are strategy and strategic planning important?
What are the main conceptual frameworks?
External analysis – understanding and analyzing business attractiveness – macroenvironmental factors, growth drivers, competitive forces, market dynamics
Benchmarking your own strategic position/competitor analysis
Analyzing customers
“Thinking backwards from the customer”
Mini-case on importance of external analysis

Day 7 - Internal analysis and fusion of analyses into strategic options

The interface of external and internal analysis
Internal analysis: financial
Internal analysis; non-financial
The concept and practicalities of the “balanced scorecard”
Diagnosing strategic problems and opportunities
Fusion of analyses into strategic choices – SWOT and the strategy matrix
Case examples of strategic choice
Mini-case on importance of internal analysis

Day 8 - Strategic plans and the relevance of alliances and joint ventures

Review of the tools used so far
The content of a strategy: avoiding “paralysis by analysis”
Putting a strategic plan together – the 5-page framework
A real-life example of a business strategy/strategic plan
Strategies for alliances and joint ventures
Example of best practice in alliances and joint ventures
Introduction and briefing for the main case study
First-phase group work on the main case study

Day 9 - Global strategy, teambuilding and the management of internal communication

The essence of globalization and global strategy
Globalization – the strategic dimension
Globalization – the organizational dimension
Globalization – the human dimension
How to build and manage a strategic planning team
Communicating strategy through the organization
Gaining your team’s commitment and buy-in to the strategy
Second-phase work on the main case study

Day 10 - Strategic implementation and getting the value out of strategy

Final-phase work on the main case study
Group presentations of the main case study
Effective execution – converting strategic analysis and planning into action
Linking strategy with operational objectives
Implementation – getting practical things done
Strategic planning of your own career
Creating tomorrow’s organization out of today’s organization
Conclusion – the corporate and individual value of strategic thinking

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Theoretical lectures through PowerPoint presentations and Visual presentations (videos and short films).
Scientific evaluation for the trainee (pre & post-evaluation).
Brainstorming, application and representation of roles.
Practical situations that are appropriate to the scientific material and with the nature of the work of trainees.
Tests at the end of the course.
The participant receives the scientific and practical material for the training program printed and saved on CD or Flash Memory.
Attendance reports for participants and final results reports with general evaluation of the program.
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At the end of the program, the trainee will receive a certificate of professional attendance, signed and certified by the European Quality Center for Training and Consulting.
Opening hours from 09.00 am to 02.00 pm, the program includes a snack buffet during the lectures.
Daily buffet food throughout the days of the training program, with a closing lunch on the last day of the training program for the distribution of certificates and commemorative photographs to the attendees
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