The Advanced Strategic Management Program

Introduction

This Strategic Management Program will enable experienced managers and specialists to advance their existing knowledge and skills in business strategy and contribute significantly to the development of their teams and organizations in a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive global business environment.

This Advanced Strategic Management Program examines the new business challenges we face today. We must prepare ourselves and our employees to deal with significant changes in markets, competitive structures, technology, operational relationships, and organizational structures. It is a fast-paced training course that provides the opportunity to improve strategic management capability through the introduction and application of cutting-edge thinking and best practices in national and international operations development.

This training course is intensive, comprehensive, and interactive in nature. This will allow participants to generate new ideas for their area of business while also gaining an understanding of the strategic impact of their personal specializations on the overall performance of the organization.

This course will highlight the following major issues:

• Structural change in international business and its implications for strategic management
• Aligning strategy, structure, culture, and operations
• Developing our teams for the new challenges of 21st-century business
• Designing and resourcing strategic plans that can be executed effectively
• Managing the effective execution of strategic plans

Course Objectives of Advanced Strategic Management Program

At the end of this training seminar, The Strategic Management Program, delegates will leverage their experience and deepen their management and leadership skills in the following activities of strategic management:

• Enhancing your personal contribution in meeting corporate objectives
• Achieving leadership success in directing and focusing the work of your teams
• Setting demanding and realistic strategic and operational goals and targets
• Strengthening alignment of strategic and operational management
• Improving and developing strategic thinking in the whole team

Course Methodology of Advanced Strategic Management Program

The Management Programme training course is designed as a highly interactive learning and personal development mechanism for experienced managers. The methodology is based on participative learning and sharing of experience. This will involve a detailed analysis of strategic issues and decisions using real-life case examples for discussion and case studies for group work. This will involve applying leading-edge analytical tools.  It will be based substantially on strategic decisions in real-life situations in which the course leader has been personally involved so that outcomes can be presented, discussed, and evaluated for their applicability in each delegate’s own organization.

Organizational Impact of Advanced Strategic Management Program

By sending delegates to this Global Horizon training course, the organization will gain the following benefits:

• Better decision-making leading to improved business performance
• Development and cascading of strategic thinking across the whole organization
• More ambitious targeting and goal setting at all levels of the organization
• Sharper focus and greater effectiveness in planning at strategic and operational levels
• Higher consistency in the execution of strategic program and projects
• Creative and original ideas for strategic, operational, and organizational development

Personal Impact of Advanced Strategic Management Program

By attending this training course delegates can expect to gain the following personal development benefits:

• Detailed appreciation of the trends that influence 21st-century business development
• Understanding best practice in aligning strategic and operational management
• Learning how to use tools and techniques of strategic analysis and planning
• Improved personal leadership and team-building skills
• Identifying and introducing innovative approaches to management
• Preparation for higher-level operational and strategic management responsibility