Strategic Leadership for Transformational Change
This course prepares leaders and senior management to successfully deal with new business realities introduced by rapid, market changes. When your Organizations undergo transformational change, adopting new business models within a relatively short period of time, the course avails to you the opportunity to explore new alternatives with leading strategic and planning tools to prepare for the next transformational journey. Throughout the course delegates are guided through the content and material, on how to use relevant tools, business cases, and strategic models and concepts.
· Build awareness and understanding about the significance of transformational change
· Select a team of key managers and opinion formers who will drive the desired change
· Generate acceptance across the organization towards the overall process of transformation
· Maintain strong and open channels of communication around the transformational journey
· Formulate and execute a strategic plan toward implementing transformational change
Understanding transformational change
· Transformational change versus change management
· Prerequisites for transformational change – the Beckhard approach
· Approaches to transformational change
· Transforming through the different transitional phases
· Measuring the intensity and the need to transform
Stablishing the foundation for transformational change
· Characteristics and capabilities of transformational leaders
· Key factors in effective change management
· The battle between leadership and the status quo
· The psychological contract
· The emotional competence framework
The transformational change model
· The model and the intended results
· The process behind the model
· The model and the desired leadership characteristics to succeed
· Creating the climate for transformational change
· Engaging and enabling the organization
· Implementing and sustaining
· Working through the resistance
· The ongoing process of transformational change
· Insights from transformational leaders
Communicating transformational change
· The role of the leader
· Communicating with a purpose
· Analyzing and understanding the needs of the stakeholders
· The fundamentals of communicating transformational change
· Measuring the effectiveness of the communication plan
· The transformational change communication playbook
Formulating and executing the transformational strategic plan
· What matters most when executing transformational strategic plans
· Fundamental traits of organizational effectiveness
· The building blocks of executing transformational strategic plans
· Mapping improvement to the building blocks
· Test driving the execution plan
· Delivering the results and measuring success
Looking ahead
Leaders, heads of departments, managers, supervisors, project managers, change agents and sponsors and all those involved in driving transformational change.