Course description
The growth and success of any business is dependent on the capabilities of its senior management team. It is therefore important that senior managers are fully equipped with all the skills and knowledge required to fully carry out their strategic management roles.
Developing senior management competences Training Course is intense and full-on and will cover the key skills and behavioural competences all senior managers with strategic responsibility should have to enable the organisation achieve its objectives.
The course will be beneficial to senior executives of both private and public sector organisations with responsibility for the strategic direction of their organisations.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This Developing senior management competences Training Course is ideal for:
- Line Managers
- Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Project Leaders
- Shift Leaders
- Trainee Managers
- Assistant Managers
- Individuals making the transition into management roles
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of the Developing senior management competences Training Course, you will:
- Have a clear understanding of the senior leaders’ role in overall leadership and effective management of the organisation
- Understand how to inspire, influence and build high performing and effective teams
- Analyze the main components of a competency and the differences between each
- Design and produce a competency framework and model by extracting competencies from business plans
- Apply competencies in the recruitment and selection processes
- Use competencies to assess training needs, identify talent pools and produce succession plans
- Be equipped with strategic leadership and management skills to enhance team performance
- Confidently be able to deploy a range of effective management techniques and tools
Training Course Content
Day 1
Strategic Leadership
- The challenge of modern strategic leadership.
- Alternative approaches to strategic management.
- Creating vision and values for your organisation.
- Developing mission, goals and objectives.
- A rational model of strategic development.
- Strategic tools: brainstorming and mind mapping.
Implementing Strategy and Change Management
- The strategic implementation process.
- Managing change successfully.
- Forces for and against change.
- Dealing with barriers to change.
Day 2
People Leadership
- Adopting the right leadership style.
- Leading and motivating teams to deliver.
- Connecting with people – communication that works.
- Performance management and human capital development.
- Using performance appraisals effectively.
- Understanding team roles and dynamics.
Day 3
Customer Focus
- Putting the customer at the heart of all decisions.
- Understanding customer needs.
- Improving customer services and customer experience.
- Improving communication with customers.
Financial Management
- Understanding financial reports/statements.
- Understanding budgets and budgeting methodologies.
- Managing and monitoring budgets.
- Investment appraisal: evaluating capital projects.
Day 4
Strategic Analysis
- Identifying key success factors.
- Balancing stakeholder objectives.
- The external environment: Risk/ PESTLE analysis.
- The external environment: Porter’s 5 Forces analysis.
- Organisational capabilities: value chain analysis.
- Organisational capabilities: customer profiling.
- Organisational capabilities: growth /share analysis.
Day 5
Personal Effectiveness
- Time management skills.
- Driving staff performance
- Projecting a positive role image/ model.
- Acting decisively – decision making
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