Developing Senior Management Competencies Training
Code
-
Type
Classroom
Duration
5
Modules
7
Skill Level
Expert
Language
EN
Max
10
Certificate
Yes
Assessment
No
The growth and success of any business are dependent on the capabilities of its senior management team. It is therefore important that senior managers are fully equipped with all the skills and knowledge required to fully carry out their strategic management roles.
This course is intense and full-on and will cover the key skills and behavioral competencies all senior managers with strategic responsibility should have to enable the organization to achieve its objectives.
The course will be beneficial to senior executives of both private and public sector organizations with responsibility for the strategic direction of their organizations.
By the end of the Developing senior management competences Training Course, attendands:
- Have a clear understanding of the senior leaders’ role in overall leadership and effective management of the organization;
- Understand how to inspire, influence, and build high performing and effective teams;
- Analyze the main components of competency and the differences between each;
- Design and produce a competency framework and model by extracting competencies from business plans;
- Apply competencies in the recruitment and selection processes;
- Use competencies to assess training needs, identify talent pools, and produce succession plans;
- Be equipped with strategic leadership and management skills to enhance team performance;
- Confidently be able to deploy a range of effective management techniques and tools.
This Developing senior management competencies Training Course is ideal for:
- HR Professionals
- Line Managers
- Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Project Leaders
- Shift Leaders
- Trainee Managers
- Assistant Managers
- Individuals making the transition into management roles
There are no specific requirements for this Course.
Course Outline
Strategic Leadership
- The challenge of modern strategic leadership.
- Alternative approaches to strategic management.
- Creating vision and values for your organization.
- Developing mission, goals, and objectives.
- A rational model of strategic development.
- Strategic tools: brainstorming and mind mapping.
Implementing Strategy and Change Management
- The strategic implementation process.
- Managing change successfully.
- Forces for and against change.
- Dealing with barriers to change.
People Leadership
- Adopting the right leadership style.
- Leading and motivating teams to deliver.
- Connecting with people – communication that works.
- Performance management and human capital development.
- Using performance appraisals effectively.
- Understanding team roles and dynamics.
Results Focus
- Delivering required outputs by deadline
- Accountability – holding self and others accountable .
- Developing a culture of continuous improvement.
- Measuring performance.
- Developing a culture of getting it right first time.
- Prioritising and focusing on key priorities.
- The balanced scorecard – performance management tool.
Customer Focus
- Putting the customer at the heart of all decisions.
- Understanding customer needs.
- Improving customer services and customer experience.
- Improving communication with customers.
Financial Management
- Understanding financial reports/statements.
- Understanding budgets and budgeting methodologies.
- Managing and monitoring budgets.
- Investment appraisal: evaluating capital projects.
Strategic Analysis
- Identifying key success factors.
- Balancing stakeholder objectives.
- The external environment: Risk/ PESTLE analysis.
- The external environment: Porter’s 5 Forces analysis.
- Organizational capabilities: value chain analysis.
- Organizational capabilities: customer profiling.
- Organizational capabilities: growth /share analysis.
Personal Effectiveness
- Time management skills.
- Driving staff performance
- Projecting a positive role image/ model.
- Acting decisively – decision making