Key details
Mode of delivery: Classroom-based
Course code: SM15B
Duration: 5 days
Fee: £4,665.00 + VAT
CPD Hours: 30
Course Overview
This week focuses on Strategic Leadership & Execution. Participants diagnose barriers to delivery, identify leadership and capability gaps, align leadership attention with strategic priorities, build learning cultures and resilience, and develop practical approaches for managing change, embedding new behaviours and sustaining strategic momentum.
Agenda
Day 1 — Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles to Strategy
- Identifying obstacles that could prevent you from achieving the goals of your company’s strategy.
- Diagnostics – leadership, culture, processes and cross purpose.
- Successful implementation of your company’s strategy.
Day 2 — Developing Leadership Behaviours for Strategic Delivery
- Leadership behaviours.
- Identifying leadership gaps.
- Aligning leaders’ time, energy and decision-making around the most important aspects of strategy.
Day 3 — Developing Leadership Behaviours for Strategic Delivery
- Outlining the essential components of a learning culture that enables rapid response to disruption.
- Understanding how resilience affects long-term focus during short-term crises.
- Providing practical methods to enhance team and organisational resilience.
Day 4 — Ensuring Successful Change and Achieving Strategic Goals
- Establishing barriers to successful change and how they should be managed.
- Developing a plan to work through human and operational hurdles associated with implementing change.
- Methods to embed the change and sustain alignment with strategy over time.
Day 5 — Course Review
- Summary and recap of key learning objectives
- Action Planning
Post-Course
- Three (3) x hour-long Executive Coaching sessions at monthly intervals following Course Completion
Target Audience
This course is suitable for:
- Chief Executive Officers and senior leaders accountable for strategy execution.
- Business Unit Leaders and Senior Operational Managers
- Directors and Heads of Strategy and Transformation
- Programme, Portfolio and Transformation Office Leaders
- HR and Organisational Development Leaders supporting leadership, learning, resilience and change.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to implement a successful strategy that enables you to:
- Identify leadership, cultural, operational and organisational barriers that could prevent successful strategy execution.
- Diagnose misalignment among leaders, culture, processes and competing priorities that may block execution.
- Define the behavioural, process and organisational changes needed to translate strategic intent into successful implementation.
- Identify leadership behaviours that strengthen strategic decision-making, communication, influence and accountability.
- Assess capability gaps among senior leaders that could weaken execution of strategic priorities.
- Align senior leaders’ attention, time and decision-making with the strategic objectives that create the greatest organisational value.
- Define the practices and structures that enable continuous organisational learning and rapid adaptation.
- Explain how individual, team and organisational resilience supports sustained strategic focus during disruption.
- Apply practical methods for strengthening resilience and using learning loops to update strategic choices from new evidence and experience.
- Identify psychological, structural and process barriers that may hinder transformation and determine appropriate responses.
- Develop a tailored plan for navigating the human and operational complexities of strategic change.
- Design systems, routines and accountability mechanisms that reinforce desired behaviours and sustain alignment with strategic direction.
Course dates
Apr 19, 2027 - Apr 23, 2027
Aug 31, 2027 - Sep 3, 2027
Dec 13, 2027 - Dec 17, 2027
