Developing the Strategic Leader - Overview

Try defining the word "strategic" as it relates to your role and your organization.

It is not always easy, is it? Yet if you cannot readily define what it means to be strategic, how can you develop your leadership and your organization in this way? Try this definition as a guiding framework: individuals, teams, and organizations are strategic when they think, act and influence in ways that effectively promote the organization's enduring success. So, how does your organization stack up?

In an increasingly complicated world, leaders are often called upon to create environments where being strategic is a priority. And yet, this is too much for one leader to take on alone; to be successful, you have to engage others. The most successful leaders realize you have to build a strategic culture throughout your organization; one that welcomes change while fostering insight and innovation to ensure today's changes are right for tomorrow's challenges.

Developing the Strategic Leader can help. By using our assessment for development framework, you will better understand your leadership strengths and weaknesses and will explore the organizational learning processes inherent in strategy development and implementation. Through an intensive organizational simulation, you will be able to experience the challenges of strategic learning and leadership - balancing the complex, long-term and visionary aspects of leadership while managing the day-to-day operations.

Who Should Attend
Upper-level executives and senior leaders whose work has long-term strategic implications for their organizations.

The program philosophy assumes the strategy process extends to all senior leaders who work with key business issues; therefore, it is designed for a broad array of senior leaders, not just the CEO and the executive team.

Outcomes

• Understand and apply a framework for strategic leadership to guide your personal development, as well as the development of your teams and organization.
• Learn ways to build and sustain strategic leadership capacity in your team and in your organization.
• Determine how to enhance the learning processes necessary for effective strategy making and strategy implementation within your organization.
• Increase appreciation of the impact of organizational context, culture and systems on strategic leadership.
• Apply frameworks to address the strategy/execution gap and the balancing of short-term and long-term pressures.
• Create a persona; agenda for self-improvement and set goals to enhance strategic leadership throughout the organization.
• Take the perspective of being a strategic leader versus a tactical manager.