The Director As Strategic Leader Brochure

The Director as Strategic Leader Be the catalyst for strategic change

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Revolutionising strategic leadership capabilities for you and your organisation

This comprehensive programme is delivered through a combination of theory, case studies and relevant real-world experience. It is designed to inspire participants and organisations to continuously adapt and focus on the changing needs of strategic leadership. Psychometric assessment results (undertaken as prework) are reviewed on the programme to help you uncover the beliefs, drivers, emotions and behaviours of you and your team to ensure you effectively deliver on your strategic agenda. Participants share their ideas and experiences, contributing to the group activities. This course will reprogramme your strategic thinking and leadership behaviour; exploring your cognitive preferences and leadership style to reach even higher levels of performance.

Who is the programme for? Chief executives, directors and senior managers: • Responsible for the formation of strategy within their organisation or company division, • Who oversee strategy execution, • Shortly assuming strategic responsibility.

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Benefits to you and your organisation

Benefits for you

Benefits for your organisation

• Gain a set of implementable initiatives to progress your personal leadership agenda. • Insight into strategic thinking and associated techniques to address the questions that keep you awake at night.

• Gain a set of effective tools and frameworks to help determine a clear strategic direction for your organisation. • Work on your own corporate or operational strategy formation and execution in real time, supported by faculty and peers.

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Greater appreciation of the big picture issues and how to address them effectively.

• New thinking on leadership and resilience in times of great uncertainty.

• Opportunity to reflect on your own challenges as a leader and how you can exercise strategic leadership within your organisation. Better understand the corporate dynamics of top management teams and allow you to constructively reflect on your personal approach to leadership. •

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“This has been very important for my organisation back in South Africa to find the next leap forward for us. I’ll certainly be communicating a lot back into the organisation. There are a lot of things I want to try and get going.” Marc Willmers, Business Director, Gardner Denver

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Programme details

A six-day programme, exploring, but not limited to:

Leadership

Strategy

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Navigate organisational politics.

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Gain a strategy toolbox ready for implementation.

• Recognise and leverage your leadership style and preference. • Building high performing, winning teams. • Building empathy, trust, rapport and engagement within your teams.

• Discover engagement as a catalyst for strategic success. • Strategic management. • Financial strategy. • Strategic projects and how to manage these.

Psychology and mindfulness

Supply chain management and logistics

• Appreciate how to stay psychologically fit to do your work.

• Understand key activities involved in managing end-to-end global supply chains. • Identify supply chain disruptors and innovations.

Building a resilient organisation

Equality, diversity and inclusion

• Understand resilience and the nature of the resilience challenge. • Implement strategies to build resilience within your organisation.

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How to create an inclusive working environment.

• Underpinning inclusive leadership to enable your business. • How to create a culture of physiological safety.

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Programme director

Dr John Glen John has extensive experience as a facilitator of top teams working with talented leaders on innovation and growth strategies in 40+ countries. His focus is on top team deliberations around strategy, innovation, operating models, leadership and culture to promote growth and strategic value for shareholders. He teaches on a number of international MBA programmes in Germany, Belgium, South Africa and the Netherlands and has delivered executive education programmes to a large portfolio of corporate clients including Kuehne and Nagel, Jaguar Land Rover, EMC2, Sony, Vodafone, REXAM, Pfizer, BAE Systems, Trust Re, Etisalat, ARI, HSBC and SABIC. Working with the Kuehne and Nagel organisation extensively over the last 10 years on a wide range of engagements across Europe, John currently advises the boards of Kuehne and Nagel in both the UK and South and Central America. He has also advised several regional boards of global organisations including G4S Africa and DP World (Europe). John was a senior lecturer in Economics and latterly Director of the Centre for Customised Executive Education at Cranfield School of Management. After 18 years John retired from the School at the end of September 2017 and is now a visiting fellow at Cranfield. As of 2012 John was retained by CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply) as their economic advisor. John appears regularly on BBC radio and television commenting on the UK macro-economy, the UK banking industry and the economics and finance of sport.

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Learning and courses for the decade ahead.

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