Leadership Development & Strategic Thinking Training (Online Training)

Course Objectives

Leadership & Strategic Thinking offers upcoming and current leaders a chance to look into the future and decide what you want your company to be like and then place that vision into the context of where you are now. A strategic plan provides the direction to your desired future. By adding action plans and clarifying questions to your strategic plan, you create a map for reaching your vision. Along the way, you further clarify your vision and goals by identifying your company’s values, mission, and vision statements. You create processes and structures that support your strategic plan. And most importantly, you drive improved financial results and bottom line growth by understanding and fully leveraging your financial systems. Bottom line, by operating from a strategic perspective, corporate managers realize more focus on their goals, more alignment in their actions, and greater productivity overall which results in increasing profits.

Strategic Thinking is a management tool that helps leaders/managers to focus their energy, to ensure that members of the organization are working toward the same goals, to assess and adjust the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment. In short, strategic planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus on the future.

The process is strategic because it involves preparing the best way to respond to the circumstances of the organization’s environment, whether or not its circumstances are known in advance; non-profits often must respond to dynamic and even hostile environments. Being strategic, then, means being clear about the organization’s objectives, being aware of the organization’s resources, and incorporating both into being consciously responsive to a dynamic environment.

Investing in the next generation of leaders/managers is critical to sustain competitive advantage through the downturn—and achieve corporate growth over the long term. They need to excel as multifaceted leaders. Participants emerge well equipped to take on greater cross functional responsibilities—and ultimately drive performance throughout the organization.

• Identify strategic planning issues in order to develop a unique competitive advantage and action plan
• Learn key analytical approach to solve problem
• Align your organization with your strategic planning goals by integrating strategy, objectives and performance
• Identify preventive action and generate ideas on how they can be applied to your organization
• Incorporate customer needs into your strategic planning
• Recognize how the actions of customers, competitors and your own company determine the outcomes in your markets
• Determine the best approach to manage time
• Changing and developing business mind-set