Strategic Management & Leadership
Strategic Management & Leadership
Strategic Management & Leadership
Course Overview
SML
Set Direction, Lead Change, and Deliver Strategic Performance
Learn how senior leaders think, decide and act strategically. You will analyze the environment and your organization’s capabilities, build and test strategy under uncertainty, lead people through change and digital transformation, and manage the performance, risk, financial and governance agenda that sustains long-term value.
What You Will Learn
The main objectives of the course are:
- Explain the role, responsibilities and ethics of the strategic leader.
- Apply strategic thinking, foresight and scenario planning to decisions under uncertainty.
- Analyze the external and internal environment with PESTLE, Porter's Five Forces and value chain analysis.
- Develop purpose, vision, mission and a competitive business strategy.
- Lead organizational change using proven models such as Lewin, Kotter and ADKAR.
- Plan change communication that builds engagement and commitment.
- Design strategic performance systems with the Balanced Scorecard, KPIs and OKRs.
- Drive innovation and business model innovation.
- Lead digital transformation and build an AI-ready organization.
- Manage strategic risk, governance and organizational resilience.
- Apply financial strategy to investment decisions, capital allocation and value creation.
- Engage boards and stakeholders and lead with purpose.
The Strategic Management & Leadership program provides a complete framework for leading at a strategic level. Participants will learn to think and decide strategically, develop and execute business strategy, lead change and transformation, and govern performance, risk and value creation.
Who Should Enroll
This certification is designed for senior managers, department heads, business unit leaders, directors and emerging executives, strategy and transformation professionals, and high-potential managers preparing for strategic leadership roles who want to set direction, lead change and deliver organizational performance.
Skills You Will Build
- Strategic Leadership
- Strategic Thinking and Foresight
- Scenario Planning
- Strategic Analysis (PESTLE, Five Forces, Value Chain)
- Business Strategy Development
- Leading Organizational Change
- Change Communication and Engagement
- Strategic Performance Management
- Business Model Innovation
- Digital and AI Transformation Leadership
Target Competencies
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Environmental and Competitive Analysis
- Strategy Formulation and Execution
- Change Leadership
- Stakeholder and Board Engagement
- Performance Measurement and OKRs
- Innovation Leadership
- Digital and AI Leadership
- Risk and Governance Oversight
- Executive Communication and Influence
Course Outline – Strategic Management & Leadership
Strategic Leadership Foundations
- What Strategic Leadership Is
- The Evolution of Leadership Thought and Styles
- Governance and the Strategic Leader
- Ethics and Integrity in Strategic Leadership
Strategic Thinking
- What Strategic Thinking Is — and Is Not
- The Cognitive Skills of the Strategic Thinker
- Thinking Under Uncertainty: Foresight and Scenario Planning
- Strategic Judgment and Building Consensus
Scenario Planning & Decision Frameworks
- The Discipline of Strategic Foresight
- Building and Using Scenarios
- Decision Frameworks Under Uncertainty
- Integrating Foresight into Strategic Decisions
Strategic Analysis Tools
- The Strategic Analyst's Toolkit: Matching the Tool to the Question
- Scanning the Macro-Environment: PESTLE Analysis
- Analysing Industry Structure: Porter's Five Forces
- Diagnosing Internal Capability: Value Chain Analysis
Business Strategy Development
- Direction First: Purpose, Vision, Mission, and Objectives
- How Strategy Is Developed: From Forecast to Adaptation
- Strategic Choice: Porter’s Generic Strategies
- Beyond Competition: Blue Ocean Strategy and Value Innovation
Leading Organisational Change
- The Change Imperative: Why Organisations Change and Why Change Fails
- Models of Planned Change: Lewin, Kotter, and ADKAR
- Leading People Through Change: Resistance, Fatigue, and Commitment
- Culture as the Engine of Change
Change Communication & Engagement
- The Communication Imperative in Change
- Crafting the Change Message: Purpose, Vision and the Why
- Building the Change Communication Plan
- From Telling to Engaging: Two-Way Communication
Strategic Performance Management
- Foundations of Strategic Performance Management
- The Balanced Scorecard: Measuring Beyond Financials
- KPIs, OKRs and Goal-Setting Frameworks
- Designing Strategic Performance Dashboards
Innovation & Business Model Innovation
- What Innovation Is — and Is Not
- The Business Model as the Unit of Innovation
- Four Paths to Business Model Innovation
- Why Business Model Innovation Is Hard: Stages and Structure
Digital Transformation & AI Leadership
- The Leadership Case for Digital and AI Transformation
- Building the AI-Ready Organization
- Leading People Through AI Disruption
- Executing and Scaling Transformation
Learn at your convenience
*Note: These are self-paced courses, allowing learners to study independently at their own pace.
Course Fees
$399$599
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