Course description
Why select this course?
The Rcademy Strategic Leader training course integrates the core strategic leadership skills of negotiation, conflict management, and strategic management needed to succeed in today’s challenging and complex business environment. To become an effective leader, it is crucial to have valuable leadership skills that will help advance workplace productivity. Executing strategy usually requires possessing the capacity to negotiate effectively and exert influence. Participants will learn to evaluate pre-conceptions about strategic negotiations, conflict management, and strategic planning. They will also learn the art of negotiation and its importance in leadership. Participants will also learn how to design problem-specific strategies and manage the implementation process. The course contents are holistic and geared towards boosting attendees’ leadership skills while building and establishing the strategic thinking mindset in the participants’ minds.
What are the core skills of a strategic leader?
Strategic leadership deals with the ability of a leader to conceptualize, plan, lead, and implement the best strategies needed to advance the organization’s interests. Strategic leaders are renowned for merging their strategic plans with strategic management. They are known for their products and management mindset. Strategic leaders understand the company’s structure and employ analytical decision-making toward attaining their goals while creating a vision for the future that aligns with the organization’s objectives. Some of the core skills of a strategic leader are:
- Passion and commitment
- Excellent listening and communication skills
- Positiveness and creativity
- Partnership and honesty
- Humility and empathy
- Trust and reliability
What are the principles of strategic leadership?
Strategic leaders are renowned for their skills and competencies. Such leaders have the skills to manage an organization through challenges while creating and executing long-term objectives. Strategic leaders build their skills via practice, which requires a good understanding of the principles of strategic leadership. Some of the major principles of strategic leadership include:
- Distributive responsibility
- Honest and effective communication
- Building opportunities for experience-based learning
- Hiring for transformation
- Challenging the process
- Providing access to other subordinates
- Creating multiple paths for testing ideas
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The Rcademy Strategic Leader training course is designed to help participants achieve the following outcomes:
- Learn about the key competencies and characteristics of a strategic leader
- Learn about the change management process and how to plan and implement organizational strategies
- Recognize the causes of conflicts in a corporate environment
- Learn about the various conflict resolution techniques
- Learn about the various benefits of strategic leadership
- Build leadership skills needed in influencing and effecting organizational change
- Learn how to align strategic plans with the mission and vision of the organization
- Understand the differences between management, power, influence, and leadership
- Understand how to harness team capacity for innovation
- Recognize the roles and responsibilities of the leader in implementing change
Training Course Content
Module 1: Overview of Strategic Leadership
- Overview and definition of terms
- Importance of strategic leadership
- The Roles and Responsibilities of strategic leadership
- The modern-day business environment
- Evaluating clients and benchmarking your strategic position
- The framework for strategic analysis
- Public and private sector strategies
- Understanding and evaluating business attractiveness
- Defining strategy and strategic planning
Module 2: Implementing Practical Negotiation Strategies
- Causes of Conflicts in corporate environments
- Building effective and practical negotiation strategies
- Opening offers, concessions, and anchors
- Categorizing negotiation outcomes
- Cooperative value-creating negotiation strategies
- Target point, reserve point, and Batna
- Recognizing interest and uncoupling issues
- Arbitration and mediation
- Competitive value-claiming negotiation strategies
Module 3: Leadership and Personal Effectiveness
- Personal transformation
- Leadership and the Context of Leadership
- Personal style, style flexibility, and leadership
- Self-awareness and self-perception
- Path dependency
- Personality, behavior, and values
Module 4: Core Leadership Competencies
- Rapport-building
- Leader or manager
- Goal alignment and congruence
- Influence, power, and authority
- Communication and its Role in Leadership
- Emotions, disposition, and mood
Module 5: Leadership and Change
- The Politics of Change
- The History of Change
- Designing a corporate vision
- Individual Perception and Reaction to Change
- Models of the change process
- The different approaches to change
- Leadership in the Context of modern-day corporate Environment
Module 6: Internal Analysis and Fusion into Strategic Choice
- Internal analysis: Financial
- The balance and interface of the internal and external analysis
- SWOT analysis and the strategy matrix
- Diagnosing and evaluating strategic opportunities and problems
- Internal analysis: non-financial
- The practicalities and concept of a balanced scorecard
Module 7: Leadership Development
- Leadership and competencies
- Building the strategic leader
- Organizational factors impacting leadership
- Leadership and change management process
Module 8: Team Building, Management of Internal Communication, and Global Strategy
- The human dimension of globalization
- The organizational dimension of globalization
- Communicating strategy through the organization
- Gaining the team’s commitment and buying into the strategy
- How to design and manage a strategic planning team
Module 9: Breaking Down the Negotiation Process
- The rudiments of negotiation
- Negotiation as a mixed motive exercise
- Causes of organizational conflict
- The dichotomy of negotiation
- Conflict escalation and techniques to avoid it
Module 10: Global and Cross-Cultural Complexities
- Hofstede’s cultural dimensions
- The distinct characteristics of international agreements
- Defining what is cultural and its impacts on negotiating norms
- Advice for cross-cultural negotiations
- Designing a deal
- Applying learning to different ranges of organizational conditions
Module 11: Defining Effective Leadership in the Modern-day World
- The challenges of modern-day leadership
- Attributes of renowned leaders
- Modern leadership styles in organizations
- Lessons from present-day leaders
Course delivery details
This course is participant-oriented and designed to meet participants’ expectations and enhance their knowledge and skills. Different renowned approaches and techniques to ensure constant and active learning by the participants will be employed in presenting this course. Experts will teach the course with years of experience and practice. The course modules are curated from in-depth and extensive research on innovative technology leadership.
The Rcademy Strategic Leader training course integrates practical and theoretical learning by offering participants slides on the concept, case studies, lecture notes, and real-life scenarios. Attendees can also partake in quizzes, presentations, seminar workshops, and constant feedback on the lessons learned to confirm their optimal satisfaction.
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