Moving from Operational Manager to Strategic Leader

Provides the Provides the tools to move from being a good manager to being a great leader and manager. Tthis seminar will give you key insights, ideas and planned actions to add value to your organization and improve your team’s performance.

Instead of being buried in your department's ongoing activities, you will become an innovator, a stronger influencer  and a leader for strategic change adding value to your organization and improved performance

Who should attend

• Supervisors

• Team Leaders

• Project Managers

• Managers with 0 to 5 years experience

Objectives

• Inspire and direct your team to greater ability, readiness and competitiveness

• Add value to your organization by understanding the needs and expectations of your customers

• Strategically think and innovate strategies to link strategic vision to core capabilities

• Recognize opportunities to influence and create strategic partnerships

• Identify strengths and weaknesses in your work teams

• Develop persuasive skills to sell your strategic ideas that encourage and support risk taking and innovation at all levels

What We Will Cover

• Developing and Balancing Operational and Strategic Management Skills

• Explore the key attributes of today's strategic thinkers

• Creating a Strategic Frame of Reference

• Develop a strategic thinker's approach for your own work environment

• 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

• Prepare a draft of a vision statement

• Making Your Vision a Reality: Influencing Key Stakeholders

• Explore options for influencing others