Leading for Results

2 Day Workshop - course content

Your Leadership

Think and act strategically about your leadership.

• Dealing with senior leadership complexities eg multiple accountabilities, your preferences & blindspots
• Targeting your energy & focus - identifying priorities
• Understand the legacy you leave the organisation

Setting a clear direction

Think strategically about your unit situation, develop a way forward:

• Systematically diagnose your units current situation - performance & capabilities, opportunities & challenges
• Identify priorities for action
• Develop a vision & strategy agenda to match the demands of the situation

Shaping a Business Driven Organisation

Align your unit's activities & processes, objectives and performance improvement projects to company goals, strategy & business imperatives

• Translate company objectives into unit action plans
• Develop systems for monitoring and assessing progress towards successful implementation
• Align unit's activities & processes with business imperatives
• Allocate unit's resources to best execute company strategy
• Develop an improvement projects strategy & plan

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Shaping a High Energy Organisation

Develop a high performance culture & capability

• Create a high performance system
• Develop systems for monitoring and assessing progress towards successful implementation
• Transform organisation psychological & change unwanted behaviours
• Communicate company & unit strategy to others, explain rationale
• Clarify performance expectations & cascade SMART objectives

Shaping an Adaptive Organisation

Anticipating and Responding to changing situations

• Prepare yourself & direct reports to respond quickly & effectively to changing situations
• Identify sources of turbulence & change in your unit's business environment
• Identify predictable surprises, develop action plans
• Use best practice flexible planning techniques to simultaneously deploy plans & adapt to off-plan variations
• Identify strategic changes, opportunities & threats and think through implications for your unit

Planning and Managing Change

Implementing change initiatives and projects as rapidly and seamlessly as possible

• Promote awareness of need for change, overcome psychological resistance, use political methods & communication strategy
• Develop sound business cases to gain support and resources from your boss & other key decision makers
• Engage others in the change process
• Identify, assess and deal with problems & barriers to change
• Develop strategies that incorporate change management principles
• Plan and manage the change journey including developing systems for monitoring and assessing progress
• Develop & maintain momentum for change
• Build structures & support systems to embed changes

Outline Action Plan

• Use roadmap & success strategies to develop outline action plan

Personal Development

Post workshop learning & development

• Use diagnostic tools to pinpoint strengths and development needs
• How to use manual to guide & accelerate post workshop development
• Action plan

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