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Strategic Leadership
Strategic Leadership is an intensive, fast-track programme giving delegates a new awareness of their capabilities as leaders, entrepreneurial and creative thinkers and clear-sighted strategists.
By adopting the mindsets of some of the world’s most inspirational and successful leaders, delegates will transform their own performance and that of their organisations.
Overview
Who is This For
Benefits
Content
Our Difference
Testimonials
Overview
Overview
Effective leaders are vital to a nation’s competitiveness as well as to an organisation’s. To become a sought-after leader typically takes years of formal business education, practice, trial and error and constant refinement based on experience.
Yet it is possible to fast-track through this process with our Strategic Leadership programme, giving you a genuine edge within a matter of days. Who would not want to imitate the success of business executives and entrepreneurs such as:
- Andrew Gould (Chairman & CEO, Schlumberger)
- Sir Jim Ratcliffe (Chairman, INEOS)
- Sir John Bond (past Executive Chairman HSBC, Vodafone)
- Sir John Sunderland (past Chairman Cadbury Schweppes, CBI)
- Anne Mulcahy (past Executive Chairman and CEO Xerox)
- Sir John Ritblat (past Chairman British Land)
- Mike Fairey (past Deputy CEO Lloyds TSB)
- Sir Rod Eddington (past CEO British Airways)
- Sir Terry Leahy (past CEO Tesco)
Who is This For
Who is This For
Strategic Leadership is designed for those wishing to build rapidly upon past successes, to prepare for rapid career advancement or to excel amongst their peers.
They should have an element of responsibility for contributing to the future direction of their organisation and its strategic development, and will therefore include:
- Board Executives
- Entrepreneurs
- Team Leaders and those with significant leadership roles
- General Managers
- Directors
- Functional Managers
Benefits
Benefits
As a participant on the world’s most highly developed and effective Business Leadership Programme, you will be encouraged to critically examine your current mindset and biases and transform your view of yourself as a leader, thinker and strategist.
Benefits for participants
Each individual attending our Strategic Leadership programme will have different motivations and aspirations, but they all finish the programme with:
- A new awareness of themselves as skilled leaders
- Enhanced strategic planning and decision-making capabilities that will better equip their businesses to overcome complex challenges and steer a successful course
- The ability to think faster and more flexibly and make sound business decisions based on “seeing the big picture”
- Increased abilities to navigate business politics with integrity
- A dramatic increase in their credibility and influence (through the ability to build authentic professional relationships with their stakeholders and clients)
- The ability to become inspirational role models for their teams, able to motivate and foster creativity and collaboration through leadership and empathy
- The skills to create businesses that buzz with energy and inspiration, and can generate sustainable profits
- Increased aptitude to think and act creatively
- Considerably improved personal productivity.
Benefits for participants’ organisations
Every delegate attending the Strategic Leadership programme returns to their business with skills that significantly enhance their value to the organisation. The programme is geared to help participants deliver solid business results in just three days.
The skills that they acquire enable their business to:
- Replicate high-performance practices and thinking from other successful organisations and leaders
- Drive and manage change in a competitive environment, cutting through barriers
- Build a cohort of high performing individuals with highly developed leadership skills, sound strategic understanding and the ability to use proven planning methodologies
- Create and sustain a thriving “can do” culture that promotes energy, innovation and collaboration – as well as long-term, sustainable profits
- Maximise the talents of all its employees
- Increase the loyalty of staff, suppliers, customers and business partners
- Create a pool of future leaders able to build on success.
Content
Content
Strategic Leadership combines unique, proprietary Workpraxis techniques with management training practices that have created the world’s most successful executives and entrepreneurs.
This programme is exciting, intense and immersive.
There are no superficial applications of theory or academic business principles. There are no “passengers” passively receiving training. Instead, our delegates actively participate throughout by reflecting on their individual self development and creating an action plan that will immediately impact their ability to improve business results.
In broad terms, the course will cover:
- Definition of a high-performing organisation and leader
- Why organisations need heroes and heroines
- Delegates’ personal leadership strengths, weaknesses, challenges and goals
- Challenges for today’s leaders
- Leadership styles and their impacts
- Strategic thinking
- How to optimise a team’s decision-making and implementation
- How flexibility is vital for achieving lasting change
- Communication, collaboration and negotiation challenges and solutions for leaders
- Building on strengths and minimising weaknesses
- Delegates’ personal action plans
Our Difference
Our Difference
We have been able to build this unique programme because our trainers have, over many years, delivered proven results in both business training and in strategic management consulting. This has enabled us to “model” the methods of outstanding and highly successful executives and to build them into the cohesive and distinctive Strategic Leadership programme.
Strategic Leadership from Workpraxis is a unique fusion of the experience and expertise of two highly successful businesses: Fulcrium and Workpraxis:
Fulcrium is a specialist benchmarking company with an enviable track record amongst the world’s highest performing corporate businesses.
Workpraxis is a global management training provider with a unique take on training that includes some of the latest thinking in leadership and how people adapt, learn and grow in corporate environments.
Together, they have developed this unique, proprietary training programme focused on making business executives highly effective in their professional lives.
No other corporate training provider can offer a programme like Strategic Leadership.
It is a synthesis of the very best of management training with experiential business techniques devised by Fulcrium.
For over two decades, Fulcrium has:
- Obtained deep insights into how the highest achieving individuals in the world’s largest companies create excellence in personal and business performance.
- Assisted newly appointed board executives at the largest companies in the world to assimilate and internalise vast quantities of corporate, business, functional and operational information.
If you want a remarkable uplift in your personal and professional performance that doesn’t entail a decade of learning and experience, then you need Strategic Leadership.
Testimonials
Testimonials
We thought we were “high performers” before we attended Strategic Leadership, but it soon became clear that we lacked some essential skills and clear strategic focus. We feel far better qualified to drive the business forward now. Not only that, we feel we are better people – more aware of others, of their needs, and how the business can demonstrate they are valued. You have helped create a much more focused organisation, but also one that has a more human face.
I would like to thank you for a hugely challenging and thought-provoking course. It was completely anchored in real-world business scenarios and I was 100% comfortable with it from the start. I now have a much clearer vision of how I can improve profitability and shareholder value, and I have already experienced much greater buy-in from colleagues and suppliers because I am approaching them in a more positive way than I was previously.
I don’t usually feel comfortable being challenged, and your course was no exception. But I learned more about business and about myself in the three days than I thought possible. I should have done this years ago, but better late than never. I am sending some of my senior management team the next you run the course – no reason why I should be the only one to suffer!
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