M,2020
Time
10 (Monday) 09:00 - 11 (Tuesday) 17:00
Event Details
This is delivered via an online ZOOM Webinar format. DAY ONE Session One Driving Strategic Action and Thinking by Merging Individual
Event Details
This is delivered via an online ZOOM Webinar format.
DAY ONE
Session One
Driving Strategic Action and Thinking by Merging Individual and Team Capabilities
- What is business strategy?
- Fitting strategy and strategic thinking in the business world
- Analysing the different strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOTs) on a business and personal level
- Finding the right talent that best fits your organisation’s strategic vision
- Communicating and articulating progress clearly across different departments
Practical Exercise and Discussion:
- Strategic Thinkers Self-Assessment:
10-point questionnaire to self-assess your current levels of understanding of your own ability to think strategically
Session Two
The Strategic Thinkers’ Tool
- Formulating and answering strategic questions
- Clarifying the critical differences between “strategic thinking” and “strategic planning”:
– Whole brain thinking
– Logical and emotional solution finding
- Vision, mission, value and culture (VMVC):
– Breaking down the key elements of great VMVCs
- Knowing your audience and developing a clear strategy for your company/brand:
– Delivering results and overcoming obstacles
Practical Exercise and Discussion:
- What are some of the examples of great VMVCs?
- Reviewing and building VMVCs for your business by thinking strategically
Session Three
Turning Strategic Thinking into a Business Strategy
- Learning versus knowledge:
– Linking formal learning with strategic thinking
- Attaining access to new skills and business opportunities:
– How can you maximise your strategic learning?
- Preparing, creating and deploying your strategy:
– Strategic mapping
– Competitive Advantage and Value Proposition (CA&VP)
- Uncovering thinking gaps: Promoting frequent sharing of ideas and cross-department collaboration
Practical Exercise and Discussion:
- Identifying your organisations’ Competitive Advantage and Value Proposition
- Using strategic thinking tools to create your CA&VPs back in the work place
Session Four
Tackling Conflict and Dealing with Objections/Challenges Across the Workplace
- What can you do when a strategy goes wrong:
– Key stakeholder review
– Exercise: Using the 6Ps tool to review a strategic plan
- Making the most out of strategic decision-making tools:
– 12 by 12 by 12
– Stakeholder assessment and communication
– Risk management and mitigation
– Loop-back training
- Managing emotions and operating effectively under stress
- Finding the best leadership style for your personality:
– Collaborative, authoritative, passive-aggressive, etc
Practical Exercise and Discussion:
- Strategic Thinkers Self-Assessment:
– Retake the 10-point questionnaire to self-assess your current levels of understanding of your own ability to think strategically
DAY TWO
Session One
Cracking the Code to “Executive Presence” (EP): What Makes a Great Leader?
- Defining some of the key elements of executive presence
- Building character and leadership to influence the room
- Starting with you: Belief systems, habits, attitudes, skills
– The “identity iceberg”
- Knowing yourself and your style:
– Is your executive presence task or relationship driven?
- Instilling confidence to make the right decisions
Practical Exercise and Discussion:
- Score yourself on 20 skills required to have great executive presence
- Identifying real life examples of individuals with great executive presence: What character traits and skills do they exhibit?
- Developing a questionnaire to help identify your primary style of leadership
Session Two
Influencing Others and Finding Common Ground Between Key Stakeholders
- Look, speak and act with executive presence
- Engendering trust and building a shared value system through “true communication”
- Discovering and working through nine tactics that can influence outcomes
- Setting the bar and always remaining above it:
– Ownership
– Accountability
– Responsibility
- Finding the right ways to identify and cope with difficult people:
– The “three-chair review”
Practical Exercise and Discussion:
- How to deliver a consistent message?
- How has your understanding of executive presence changed?
Session Three
Making Yourself Heard: Crafting Shared Visions and Action Plans
- Defining your organisation’s core vision, mission and values
- Speaking with presence, impact, power and authority:
– Achieving presence while speaking with power, passion, pause and pace
- Caring enough about your audience:
– Confident
– Authentic
– Respectful
– Empathetic
- Maximising results by “speaking the language” of your key stakeholders:
– When to change strategy (and when to try harder)
- Arming yourself with the right coaching formula for success:
– Aptitude
– Resources
– Motivation
Practical Exercise and Discussion:
- Creating powerful executive presence
Session Four
Getting to the Crux of the Matter: Tools, Tips and Methods to Improve your Executive Presence
- What stops you from asking questions?
– Pride
– Fear of being judged
– Fear of authority
– Lack of knowledge
- Uncovering opportunities in the workplace where you can improve and practice your executive presence:
– On stage
– Formal meetings
– Remotely via telephone
– Remotely via video
- Repairing relationships after tough questions and discussions
Wrap-Up Session:
- Feedback review
- 10 ultimate tips to enhance and improve your executive presence
- Key learnings from the two days: Q & A session