Management & Leadership · 5 Days · Public · Al-Khobraa certified · From USD 3,900
Overview
Developing a strategic frame of mind and strategic structures to win in the competitive arena "In a world of increasing competition, a business leader today must also be a strategist. This requires more than just knowledge of strategic business concepts.
Learning Objectives
Develop a plan to achieve the goals you want for you and your company.
Change you and your organization from letting things happen to make things happen the way you want.
Develop strategic thinking in your organization.
Determine where you and your company want to be.
Develop a Strategic plan for You personally
You professionally
Your organization.
Develop strategic thinking that will allow you to achieve success in any endeavor.
Examine the keys to successful implementation
Develop a measurable action plan that drives success.
Identify, measure, and track critical success factor
Understand the critical managerial and supervisory functions of planning, scheduling, and control.
Utilize the planning cycle for effective results.
Apply planning techniques to allocate budgets and resources, and to schedule projects.
Use KPIs and targets to control results.
Manage and control resistance to change.
Use the new linear strategic model works for manpower planning
Calculate and produce convincing results from manpower data including predictive trends
How each segment of the manpower model works, data collection, analysis, and succession planning
Design and master the ability to construct organizational charts and ratios
Know what software to use for predictive trend analysis and forecasting
Be able to draw a business process map and understand how to do business process re engineering.
Sharpen your strategic decision-making skills to develop reflexes in competitive situations
Understand and recognize the differences between a situation that is essentially operational and one that has clear strategic implications
Ensure the real incorporation of the competitive dimension in the formulation of strategy
Acquire strategic principles for guiding the effective deployment of resources
Realize the role that senior executives must play in the development of a competitive and strategic culture inside the organization
Nurture your own personal strategy and abilities.
How to change from reacting to problems to making things happen the way you want for you and your company.
To recognize the importance of planning what you want to happen instead of reacting to the daily problems.
What is really important to you and your organization?
How to set the Right Goals the Right Way.
How to simplify—manage 3-5 things instead of managing 50-60.
How to develop long term/intermediate-term/short term plans.
What is important to you.
What is important for your organization.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for professionals working in management and leadership, as well as those whose responsibilities require a stronger practical grasp of the subject and its application within their organisation.
Professionals in Management & Professional Skills
Managers, team leaders and supervisors
Heads of department and function leads
Course Outline
Day 1 — Business Competitive Fitness
Market illusions and market effectiveness
Market effectiveness as a key driver of shareholder value
Assessing market effectiveness capabilities
Assessing business capabilities
Day 2 — Strategic Planning and the Competition
Establishing a common framework for understanding the Essence of strategy and the role of the competition
Evolution of business strategy
What are today's strategic priorities?
Learning lessons from today's competitive global marketplace, the influence of mergers/alliances/diversifications
Day 3 — Marketing and Sales
Internal and external evaluation
Who are our customers (internal and external)?
What are our competitor’s strengths and weaknesses?
Trends Ours
Day 4 — Finances
Overhead
Variable costs
Cost of Quality (poor quality/good quality/great quality)
Time
Day 5 — The Strategic Perspective
Learning from masters of strategy outside of business: in the armed forces, games, sports and diplomacy
Contrasting the analytical and the strategic thinking approaches
Developing a competitive spirit inside your organization
How a marketing capability operating in a competitive culture (battlefield mentality) is essential for an overall strategic culture
Accreditation
Al-Khobraa certified. On completion delegates receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of achievement.
What do Al-Khobraa management and leadership courses cover?
The portfolio covers KPIs and performance management, strategic planning and execution, Mini MBA programmes, supervisory and first-line management skills, change leadership, decision-making and problem-solving, and executive communication. Sessions are workshop-based, built around delegates’ own organisational challenges.
Who should attend a management and leadership course?
These courses suit team leaders and supervisors, department and functional managers, newly promoted managers moving from technical to leadership roles, senior specialists preparing for management, and executives responsible for strategy or organisational performance.
How long are management and leadership courses, and where are they held?
Most Al-Khobraa management and leadership courses run over 5 days. The exact duration, dates and city for this course are listed in the dates section on this page. Public sessions run across Saudi Arabia — Riyadh, Jeddah, Al-Khobar, Jubail and Yanbu — as well as regional and international venues, with live virtual classrooms available on request.
What certificate will I receive?
Delegates who complete the course receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of completion, issued by a Saudi-registered training provider. Al-Khobraa also delivers internationally accredited programmes; where a course carries an external awarding body such as PMI, CIPS, ILM or IOSH, that body is named on the course's own page.
Can management and leadership training be delivered in-house for our team?
Yes. Any Al-Khobraa management and leadership course can be delivered in-house at your own premises anywhere in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, with the content, dates and language of delivery tailored to your team. Al-Khobraa is an approved HRDF (Hadaf) provider, so eligible Saudi employers can seek training support. Contact us for a quotation.