Leadership for Senior : How to Implement Strategy to Get High Quality Results
How to Implement Strategy to Get High Quality Results
Secure the highest level of performance delivery, consistent with corporate strategy and integrated across your organisation\'s borders.
Workshop overview
As a team or function leader responsible for strategy implementation in your unit, how can you get your people aligned to deliver on the department goals? What leadership processes and leadership behaviors can you deploy to motivate and enable your people to play an active role in the delivery of corporate, business unit or department strategy? Your team or function has a significant contribution to make to the overall competitiveness of your company. It\'s your job to make sure that your department\'s objectives are clearly aligned to corporate strategy, and to lead your people to implement strategy through their function and to execute their role flawlessly.
MEMC\'s "Leadership for High Performance" workshop can help you plan the leadership processes you will put in place, and the leadership behaviors you will develop, to secure the mobilised commitment of your people to implement strategic decisions.
Who should attend?
This programme is designed specifically for middle managers who face the challenge of turning strategies into focused and successful delivery. Research indicates that strategy fails mainly in the process of execution. This intensive programme provides managers with a toolkit to enable them to secure the highest level of performance delivery, which is consistent with corporate strategy and which integrates across their organisation\'s borders.
What business issues are addressed?
Recent research has shown that only 12% of companies successfully implement their strategies. Securing and maintaining connectivity between your unit\'s strategy and the corporate strategy is a major responsibility for every manager and at the core of high performance delivery. You are accountable for aligning your own team with the successful execution of strategy and so for achieving the planned for results. Your task is made more challenging by the fact that you need to secure the support of your senior management, as well as the cooperation of your peers, suppliers and often that of your customers to make the strategy work. What should you do, as a leader, to align your people, and how can you lead other key stakeholders over whom you have no authority?
What will I be able to do after participating?
You will be better able to:
Lead your team to implement strategic decisions
Make the strategy understandable and accessible to your team, so they can decide and are empowered to act accordingly, rather than waiting for your instructions
Work with your team and other key stakeholders toward the achievement of shared strategic objectives
Reinforce with your team those behaviors that are strategically focused and reduce undesirable ones
Where appropriate work to develop a high level of empowered self-management within your team
Align your departmental goals with company strategy and cascade it to team and individual objectives
Leverage processes and structures in the company that can assist with both the building and implementation of strategy, steering around or lobbying to change the ones obstructing it
Monitor your own leadership behavior and style, understand how it encourages or discourages people from implementing the strategy
Manage all of the above as an integrated system, rather than as a set of separate elements
Through action-planning and implementation of the above system, build the productive and supportive relationships and a culture to better support your strategy.
What will I do during this workshop?
This is a flexible workshop, continuously updated as business trends change and adjusted to the concerns of every individual participant group. Time will be set aside every day for peer-to-peer coaching, where participants can share challenges and experiences. In this way, many participants have gained valuable solutions to difficult problems.
Before the workshop, you will:
Complete background reading on the key concepts
Prepare a short case study about a real leadership situation facing you and come to the workshop prepared to address it
Gather information about your current strategy and performance drivers
Gather any leadership or behavioral feedback you have received in your company
Use each of these to help you conduct some preliminary thinking about your leadership action plan.
Day 1: Start with a clear strategy
The first day is about setting the context for leadership. Topics will include:
Strategy and the Leadership role
What do we mean by "Strategy" and "Leadership"
What are the major strategic challenges facing us as leaders?
What are our major execution challenges to deliver high performance against our strategic goals
The Global trends and drivers impacting our strategy implementation
What is your business model?
What is the logic that explains how you deliver value to your customers whilst producing an acceptable value stream for your business?
Defining required results
Factors at the centre of strategy
Customers\' Value Propositions
Business drivers
Our core competences
Our Critical Success Factors
Core Processes for Strategic Execution
The strategising process
The Operations process
The People process
The role of Vision
Vision and mission as components of the process of delivering against your strategy
The "Strategy House" to provide clear direction - an holistic and integrated approach
Strategic toolbox
Building deliberate strategy and taking control of emergent strategy
Different strategies require different internal management practices
Introducing our Leadership Model for strategy implementation
Building a workable concept of strategic leadership
Day 2: Align processes and people to strategy
75% of companies that outperform others in their sector have a formal process for communicating strategy to their employees. You will become familiar with those aspects of leadership which will enable you to engage your people to deliver against strategic goals. You will do this through group discussion around your case studies and other business examples. You will address the challenge of balancing day-to-day operational issues with the building and implementation of longer term strategy. You will examine the application of strategic leadership to securing consistently high performance. Topics include:
Aligning people with the Customer\'s Value Proposition, focusing your organisation on the customer\'s experience of your company
Communicating your strategy in a way people can understand, buy into, and know what to do to deliver
Principles of corporate communication - the impact of effective and ineffective communication
Choosing the best media
Managing your people for high performance
Giving understanding of the strategy-individual connection - building "line of sight"
Leading to empower
Motivating for results, commitment and retention
Operating the performance management system
Matching people\'s attitudes and behaviors with company values and culture
Talent management- attracting, deploying, developing and retaining your high quality talent
Developing and aligning performance metrics
Operationally defining and measuring the right things
Ensuring KPI\'s are helping you to managing the strategy execution process and not taking people\'s attention away from the main job
Measuring behavior and qualitative-based performance
Obtaining and sustaining the balance between strategy and daily operational matters
Aligning decision-making and other processes to the strategy so people are helped in implementing the strategy and not hindered.
Day 3: Building your role
You will examine your own leadership style and behaviors and the culture you need to implement your strategy. Topics include:
Exemplary leadership practices
Best practice, what works, what doesn\'t
Your leadership style and behavior
Self assessment and managing and adapting your style to produce results
Inspirational leadership- fact or fiction?
Influencing - looking through the eyes of your stakeholders
Accommodating and managing the stakeholders\' perspectives
Managing your sources and types of power
Lobbying and consulting
Handling Conflict and Diversity
The positives and the negatives
Learning how to adjust your style to handle difficult situations and difficult people
Harnessing the strength of diversity in your team
Coaching and developing others
A framework of techniques for managers to coach their team members
Using mentors to enhance individual\'s capability
Learning & development solutions
Leading across cultures
The role of values, values translated into behaviors to build the right culture
Tools and approaches for influencing culture change
Day 4: Getting into action
You will build your learning into a personal action plan for implementation on your return to your organisation, informed by feedback from the workshop facilitator and from your peers. Topics include:
Creating your plan
Planning for delivery
Managing complexity, scale and pace
Strategic thinking tools for clarifying and focusing
Managing multiple projects & setting priorities
Practicing communicating your implementation plan as you would to your staff
The realities of making your strategy work
Addressing the challenges of your working environment to ensure your plan gets to work
Managing risks to implementation
Spotting and managing crises
Scenario analysis
Conclusion:
Summarising the key issues, skills, mindsets and actions associated with implementing strategy and leading your people to achieving results
Commitment to personal action
April 26-29, 2010
Nice
Fee 3950 EUROS
December 06-09, 2010
London
Fee 3950 EUROS
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