Seize this opportunity to anticipate, initiate and manage change.

Learn to become an innovator, a persuasive player and a champion of strategic change while adding value to external and key internal stakeholders.

How You Will Benefit

• Inspire and direct your team to greater readiness and competitiveness
• Use strategic thinking to add value to your organization by understanding the needs and expectations of your customers
• Anticipate and innovate strategies to link strategic vision to core capabilities
• Recognize opportunities to influence and create strategic alliances
• Use strategic thinking to identify key strengths and weaknesses in your work group
• Encourage and support risk taking and innovation at all levels
• Develop persuasive skills to sell your strategic ideas

What You Will Cover

Developing and Balancing Operational and Strategic Management Skills

• Establish a working definition of operational management
• Explore the key attributes of today's strategic thinkers

Creating a Strategic Frame of Reference

• Understand the key components of the strategic thinking model
• Develop a strategic thinker's approach for your own work environment

Understanding Your Current Operational Mission: Your Team, Your Customers and Your Competitors

• Strategic thinking: moving from a limited context to a broader view
• Understand how to apply a SWOT analysis to your team
• Create a mission statement defining the operational reality of your work group

Developing a Strategic Vision: Moving from What Is to What If

• How to identify priority issues to create your strategic advantage
• Encourage innovative solutions •Prepare a draft of a vision statement

Making Your Vision a Reality: Influencing Key Stakeholders

• Develop their persuasive skills
• Explore a range of options for influencing others

Your Personal Plan: Developing and Selling Your Vision of the Future

• Communication strategies to sell your strategic plan
• Conduct key conversations to encourage innovation and risk taking

Who Should Attend

Managers with five years or less of management experience who want to move into a more strategic role.

Additional Information

Seminar Schedule