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The role of strategic leader requires different skills and perspectives than those required by day-to-day operational leadership roles. Learn the 3 behaviors you must engage in to become a strategic leader.
A well-defined business strategy is vital for success. It’s broad in scope, future-focused, and change-oriented. It’s both an art and a science.
But though your organization’s strategy may be strong, your people may not be prepared to implement it, or aligned in their efforts.
Effective strategic leadership begins with business strategy, and encompasses talent development needs and organizational culture. The role of strategic leadership is to bridge the gap between strategy and performance, and enable optimal outcomes for your most pressing business challenges.
And what about your individual leaders? Do they need to be more strategic? Managers and executives sometimes struggle to move beyond setting direction or goals and toward an ongoing process of transforming the organization. Leadership and strategic management require different skills and perspectives than those required in day-to-day operational roles.
Truly strategic leadership is a way of thinking and acting. That’s why the most effective strategic leadership training doesn’t just teach leaders how to make better strategies. It’s change-oriented, future-focused, and equips them to widen their perspectives.
We offer a variety of research-based, proven leadership topic modules to help you upskill your team.
Start building a long-term outlook for success at your organization by strengthening your people’s strategic leadership skills and behaviors. We can deliver our world-class, research-backed content on Thinking & Acting Strategically — or you can.
Either way, our content will equip your team to think, act, and influence more strategically, especially in the face of disruption and complexity.
Every leader is aware of the value of a well-defined business strategy. But few give thought to the leadership that will be required to implement strategies that call for changes in organizational direction or capabilities.
Our dedicated experts can partner with your executive team to identify key drivers for your business and create a custom leadership strategy tailored to your organization’s unique challenges and needs. We can then help you envision your “future perfect” state for transforming your organization and its leadership culture to scale the leadership strategy at all levels.
Available by request, The Leading Strategically Experience is an online strategic leadership training course for executives, designed to help them improve their strategic leadership skills to achieve goals, drive performance, and align short-term action with long-term direction.
Leaders learn to identify levers in the culture that can help enable the execution of the business strategy, plus practice the skills needed to handle complexity, span boundaries, and shape their culture for success.
Whether your organization opts to work with our Organizational Leadership experts for leadership strategy consulting, or you incorporate our Leading Strategically Experience or Thinking & Acting Strategically topic module into a custom learning journey for your leaders, we’ll tailor each development experience to your unique challenges.
At a high level, participants in our strategic leadership trainings can expect to leave with these takeaways:
We measure success by lives touched and impact made. That’s why the organizations we work with and the leaders we empower consistently tell us the same thing: their experience with us for strategic leadership training isn’t just a game-changer, it’s a life-changer. We’ve helped organizations of all shapes and sizes define their leadership strategy and connect it to the business results they’re looking to achieve.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
“The whole experience has given us leadership muscle to do things we didn’t think were possible. CCL has been a part of this success by helping us build leadership capabilities to take advantage of opportunities and create value for the shareholders.”
Rob Van Nus
VP Human Resources & Corporate Services
Graymont
“We spend a lot of time formulating and implementing our strategy. Our time with CCL allows the senior leaders to step back and reflect on the human impact of our strategic decisions and the implications for the leadership culture necessary to achieve our aims.”
Walter Bayly
CEO
Credicorp
Our experts are here to help. Get in touch with us about developing more effective leadership and strategic management at your organization.
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A well-crafted, well-implemented organizational strategy that links business priorities to leadership and culture is essential to long-term success.
Without strategy, execution can feel aimless. Without proper execution, strategy falls flat. Success, therefore, lies in the connection of execution and strategy. That’s what strategic leaders do — they leverage the interconnectivity of an organization, whether it’s linking the business strategy to the leadership strategy; feeling confident in managing complexity and competing tensions; or getting people to work together and collaborate across functions.
The most important factors of leadership and strategic management are working together to meet short-term targets, managing business priorities, and positioning the organization for the future, while meeting current demands.
Strategic leadership can be challenging to develop. That’s why our time-tested, proven strategic leadership training and custom solutions aim to develop executive teams and individual senior leaders to be more effective and strategic.
Whether you’re looking for a customized, top-to-bottom solution tailored to uplift and transform your entire business — working with your executive team to craft a leadership strategy and scale alignment throughout your organization — or a highly personalized strategic leadership training program designed to strengthen the skills of individual leaders, we offer a variety of human-centered, research-based strategic leadership solutions for every budget, available both virtually and in-person.
Effective strategic leadership training is change-oriented, future-focused, and equips leaders with the tools necessary to widen their perspectives. Our research-backed strategic leadership training programs strengthen individuals’ skills and show them how to leverage the interconnectivity of their organization to meet short-term targets and position their teams for success.
Strategic leadership begins with business strategy, and encompasses talent development needs and organizational culture. It also bridges the gap between strategy and performance, and enables successful outcomes for your most pressing challenges. Overall, the most important factors of strategic leadership include collaborating to meet short-term goals, managing business priorities, and positioning the organization for the future, while meeting current demands.
Organizations who participate in our time-tested, proven strategic leadership training will be equipped to develop their executive teams and individual senior leaders to be more effective and strategic. They can also expect to leave with an enhanced internal capability to keep their leadership strategy evergreen, a better understanding of collective strategic leadership practices, improved direction, alignment, and commitment, and an increased ability to think, act, and influence strategically amidst disruption.
Becoming a strategic leader is all about the mindset. According to our research on how to become a strategic leader, an individual must engage in the following 3 behaviors: thinking strategically, acting strategically, and influencing strategically.
Managers and individual leaders often struggle to move beyond setting direction or goals and toward an ongoing process of transforming the organization — which is why they need to develop their strategic leadership skills. Strategic management requires different skills and perspectives than those needed in day-to-day operational roles. Truly strategic management is a way of bringing strategic leadership, including thinking and acting strategically, to the work.
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