Creative Strategic Planning & Leadership

This Creative Strategic Planning & Leadership training course 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. In the second module, the course leader will use case examples based on organisations with which he has been personally involved. There will be additional presentations on DVD from world-leading authorities in the fields of strategy formulation and strategic management. There will also be group work on a major case study.

By the end of this training course, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential
• Communicate your vision in refreshing and engaging ways
• Define the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’
• Understand and explain visionary thinking as part of the strategic process and apply strategic planning to your own management issues
• Place your own part of the organisation within the overall context of corporate strategy
• Gain confidence in managing your own contribution to strategic implementation 

• Senior Management Professionals, Team Leaders, Supervisors and All 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
• 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

Organisational Impact

• Leaders at all levels who can develop and communicate a shared vision
• Leaders who can engage and motivate their teams
• Increased effectiveness against personal KPI’s through more effective use of team
• Much better decision-taking and time / resource allocation - leading to better organizational and individual performance
• Introduction of strategic thinking into new levels of the organization
• Top management having more confidence in the ability and judgement of its operating managers and the staff will have a better appreciation of the need and content of organisational change 

Personal Impact

• Increasing career flexibility (vertically and horizontally)
• Accelerated thinking speed and problem resolution for difficult dilemmas
• Improved understanding of the impact of operational specialisation on corporate strategy
• Improved team working capabilities in analysing and solving strategic problems creatively
• Improved skills in ensuring most effective impact of individual specialisations
• Greater motivation through multiple organisational levels