Advanced Strategic Management

By attending this course, you will:

• Explore the specific role that is required of strategic managers in an organization.
• Consider the approach to the medium/long term funding of the authority to ensure financial resilience year on year.
• Consider the approach to the medium/long term staffing of the authority to achieve all of its strategic objectives.
• Maintain a strategic overview of the organization’s core operations.
• Consider the approach to the medium/long term planning to ensure the organization meets all of the expectations of its stakeholders.
• Have an overview of programme and change management for those senior managers who will be looking to employ and manage specific skilled staff and/or consultants to help achieve their organizational change objectives.

The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.

Organizational Role of the Strategic Manager

• What is Strategic Management?
• Understanding the Strategic Position of the organization
• the Strategic Toolkit
• Stakeholder Management

Finance Strategy

• Funding strategic priorities
• Ensuring revenue resilience
• Managing reserves
• Crises planning

Human Capital Strategy

• Talent Management
• Pay and reward
• Succession planning
• The corporate dashboard

Strategic Risk Management

• Financial risks.
• People risks.
• Operational risks
• Reputational risks

Operational Capability

• Business Modelling
• Resilient supply chains
• Ensuring quality
• Lean systems

Strategic Planning

• The Strategic Planning Cycle
• Review and refresh
• Incremental adjustments vs major restructure

Leading Strategic Change

• The Drivers of Change
• Building and Gaining support
• Project management
• Change management

Crisis Management

• The emergency response.
• Taking control.
• Working in partnership.
• Restoring normality

Course Review

• Summary and recap of key learning objectives
• Action Planning

This course is suitable for Board-level Directors & Deputy Directors, and all other Senior Managers who are responsible for achieving the organization’s strategic objectives & can commit the resources to achieve them.

Upon completion of this course, you will:

• Focus on ensuring that the organization’s operations are fit for purpose in the current, medium and long term.
• Keep a strategic overview of operations.
• Understand when and how to ‘intervene’ in the organization’s operations.
• Gain a full understanding of the role of strategic leader – specifically how it relates to the finance, human resources, data/information and operational capacity of the organization to deliver its strategic objectives.
• Implement an Action Plan at your workplace using the knowledge and skills acquired through the course.