Strategic Leadership and Management Skills Training (SMC007)
Strategic Leadership and Management Skills Training
Strategic Leadership and Management Skills workshop provides managers and leaders within an organization with the skills and tools needed to capitalize on the forces and events that shape their world. It allows them to become architects of the future within their area of responsibility. Leaders learn how to strategically position their Business by creating their own unique, standalone strategy that aligns with and supports the organization’s strategy. The strategic leadership course outline helps leaders see the big picture and find new ways for their team to contribute maximum value over the long run by operating from a more-strategic point of reference while still delivering on today’s expectations.
Course Duration
3 days
Course Objectives
Course Objectives & Outcomes
Course designed to help leaders:
- Deliver business results and meet shorter-term expectations in a way that supports the organization’s overarching mission, vision, and strategy.
- Formulate strategy for their Business and identify opportunities that will affect longer-term results.
- Use strategic insight and business-strategy skills to create compelling business initiatives and strategic priorities for their area of responsibility.
- Formulate and execute innovative strategic plans and activities.
- Identify the tactics and objectives that will contribute to the successful execution of the strategy.
- Involve their team members in executing strategic plans and creating Strategic Measures of Effectiveness.
- Enhance the strategic agility of their team.
Organisational Impact
Benefits to the organisation:
- The organization will be capable of focusing on the long term organisational needs and goals
- Motivated to deal effectively with the operational tasks with future in mind
- Increase self-awareness, flexibility and confidence in their team
- Secure in the knowledge that their team is truly capable of producing results
Personal Impact
Personal benefits:
- Have ability to select leadership and management approaches most suitable for their situation and personal style
- Gain self-assurance to move beyond traditional assumptions about the ‘right’ way to manage
- Get confidence through the opportunity to experiment with key techniques before applying them in the work place
Course Outline
Module 1: Day 1: Understanding Strategic Leadership
By the end of the session, the participants should be able to
- Understand Strategic Leadership
- Development of leadership skills
- Apply the Principles of strategic leadership
- Apply the Role of Strategic Leadership in Organizational Success
- Define Organizational Goals and working towards achievement of the goal
- Apply skills of Strategic Planning and Execution of the plan
- Case Study: Examining Successful Leadership Models
- Group Discussion: Setting Personal Leadership Goals
Module 2: Day 2: Effective Management and Decision-Making
By the end of the session, the participants should be able to
- Evaluate the Art of Decision-Making in Leadership
- Understand and apply Problem-Solving Techniques as a strategic leaders
- Apply Time Management skills while Prioritizing strategies
- Apply skills on Building and Leading High-Performing Teams
- Strategic Leadership Communication Skills
- Workshop: Conflict Resolution and Team Building
Module 3: Day 3: Leading for Growth and Sustainability
By the end of the session, the participants should be able to
- Lead change in organizations by applying strategic leadership as executives
- Innovation and Creativity in Leadership
- Ethical Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Measuring and Evaluating Leadership Impact
- Creating a Personal Leadership Development Plan
- Course Wrap-Up and Certificates
Note: The specific content, activities, and duration of each session may be adjusted based on the target audience, learning objectives, and available time.
Course Language
English
Training Methodology
This intensive 3-day program delivery shall be through a combination of lectures; interactive workshops; case studies, and group discussions, participants will gain insights into strategic thinking, effective decision-making, and leadership best practices.
Certification
Certificate of Completion
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the Strategic Leadership and Management Skills Training course.
Strategic leadership is the ability to set long-term direction for a team or organization and translate it into decisions, priorities and day-to-day management. It combines vision-setting, strategic thinking, resource allocation and people leadership — so plans actually get delivered rather than staying on paper.
Operational management keeps this month running: schedules, budgets, supervision and delivery. Strategic leadership decides where the organization should be in two to five years and aligns people, structures and resources behind that direction. Senior roles need both, and this course trains participants to move fluently between the two.
Managers stepping into senior roles, heads of departments and programmes, founders and directors of NGOs and SMEs, and technical experts preparing for leadership positions. It suits both the private sector and donor-funded organizations — examples and case studies are drawn from both worlds.
Participants leave able to develop and communicate a strategic plan, cascade it into team objectives, make resourcing trade-offs with confidence, lead change processes, and use performance conversations to keep delivery on track.
No. The course meets you where you are: experienced managers use it to sharpen and formalise their practice, while newer leaders gain the frameworks and confidence to step up. Group exercises are mixed deliberately so participants learn from each other's contexts.
Online (live-instructor-led over Zoom) and in-person at our training venues across Nairobi, Kigali, Mombasa, Lagos, Cape Town, Addis Ababa, Juba, Cairo and Dubai. Both formats issue the Perk Group Africa certificate of completion with a verification code, accepted for CPD records across the corporate and NGO sectors.
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