An intensive professional development training course on
Leading & Managing
through Successful Planning & Innovation
Developing Deliverable Strategies
The Structure
This comprehensive training course consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10 Day Training event, or as individual, 5 Day courses.
Module 1 - Successful Planning, Organising & Delegating
Module 2 - Smart Leadership: Achieving Strategy through Leadership & Innovation
The Course Content
Module 1: Successful Planning, Organising & Delegating
Day One: Creating an Attitude to Change How We Plan and Organize Work
- Course purpose, goals and objectives
- New systems & strategic thinking
- Overview and context of organizational change and the impact on planning and organization
- Identifying a standard of excellence in the organization, team and personal work
- Review of management processes and skill areas
- Using a planning process to set goals and get projects started
Day Two: Importance of Planning Management
- Integrating goals, scope, work structure and management planning
- Identifying initial resource requirements
- Identifying risk techniques that affect work assignments, priorities and deadlines
- Communication that responds to who, what where, when, how, why
- Understanding the importance of quality planning in work assignments
Day Three: Delegation, Personal Organization and Setting Priorities
- Understanding how people approach their work
- Planning for time management, scheduling and meeting deadlines
- Using proper delegation skills to empower staff
- Improving prioritizing of work and work tasks
- Planning for delegation responsibility and authority
Day Four: Planning Effectively with Your Team
- Identifying skills required to obtain the help of others
- The importance of group skills to achieve team success
- The importance of interpersonal skills in making personal and team decisions
- Empowering the team through the development of interpersonal skills
- The importance of versatility in team relations
Day Five: Developing Personal and Team Change Plans
- Innovation and improvement for personal and team change
- Identification of change processes and human change
- Techniques to set personal and team change goals
- Dealing with people who do not want change
- Developing an action plan for personal and team change
Module 2: Smart Leadership: Achieving Strategy through Leadership & Innovation
Day Six: Encouraging a Creative Climate at Work
- Innovative leadership for excellent performance
- The Critical mass for change and innovation
- Innovation VS Constant Improvement
- How a Leader Creates a Culture of Innovation
- Case Study on Most Innovative Companies
- Innovation and current business breakthroughs
Day Seven: Gaining the Participation of the Workforce
- The G.E. “Workout” Strategy for engaging Employees
- Gaining the “Buy-In” from the workforce
- Developing Creative Solutions for problems and new Strategies
- Overcoming old Paradigms
- Dealing with Organizational “Drift”
- Case Study on Gaining Empowerment
Day Eight: Leading with the Creative Edge
- Developing Creative Potential in People and Teams
- Managing Creative People
- Learning new Thinking Skills
- Learn New Brainstorming Techniques
- How to Incubate New Ideas
- Gaining Collaboration in the Workforce
- Creative Group Exercise: Identifying new business processes
Day Nine: Creating a Motivating Climate for Higher Productivity
- The Ten Key Elements to Setting up New Missions
- Setting Goals and Targets Creatively
- Creating a “Sense of Significance”
- Using Emotional Intelligence to Motivate people
- Rewarding Performance
- The Four Step “Pygmalion” theory
- Group and Team Motivators
Day Ten: Driving Strategic Change
- Managing the Change Process
- Kotter’s Change Management Techniques
- Successful techniques for Changing People
- How a Leader Communicates a Sense of Urgency
- How to Overcome the Pitfalls of Change
- Creating an Attitude of Constant Change
- Course Review
The Certificate
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course