Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Thinker

Create a strategic framework and capture the opportunities of tomorrow!

Course Outline

If you want to move from being a good manager to being a great manager, this seminar will enable you to take away key insights, ideas and planned actions to add value to your organization and move your team forward for heightened success.

Take this opportunity to be proactive. Instead of being buried in your department's ongoing activities, you will become an innovator, a persuasive player and a champion for strategic change who adds value to your organization, your customers and your stakeholders.

Who Should Attend

Managers with five years or less of management experience who want to move into a more strategic role.

How You Will Benefit

• Inspire and direct your team to greater readiness and competitiveness  
• Add value to your organization by understanding the needs and expectations of your customers 
• Anticipate and innovate strategies to link strategic vision to core capabilities 
• Recognize opportunities to influence and create strategic alliances 
• Identify key strengths and weaknesses in your work group 
• Encourage and support risk taking and innovation at all levels 
• Develop persuasive skills to sell your strategic ideas

What You Will Cover

Developing and Balancing Operational and Strategic Management Skills

• Establish a working definition of operational management 
• Explore the key attributes of today's strategic thinkers
  
  Creating a Strategic Frame of Reference
  
• Understand the key components of the strategic model 
• Develop a strategic thinker's approach for your own work environment
  
  Understanding Your Current Operational Mission: Your Team, Your Customers and Your Competitors
  
• Strategic thinking: moving from a limited context to a broader view 
• Understand how to apply a SWOT analysis to your team 
• Create a mission statement defining the operational reality of your work group
  
  Developing a Strategic Vision: Moving from What Is to What If
   
• How to identify priority issues to create your strategic advantage 
• Encourage innovative solutions 
• Prepare a draft of a vision statement
  
  Making Your Vision a Reality: Influencing Key Stakeholders
   
• Develop their persuasive skills  
• Explore a range of options for influencing others
  
  Your Personal Plan: Developing and Selling Your Vision of the Future
   
• Communication strategies to sell your strategic plan 
• Conduct key conversations to encourage innovation and risk taking

Available Formats for Employees and Managers

At our training centre in downtown Toronto, 10.00AM to 5.00PM with one hour lunch break.

$1799 + HST per participant for a two day workshop,
$2499 + HST per participant for a three day workshop,

We offer a 10% discount for each additional participant

For Soft Skill Workshops outside the GTA, please contact us at 647-271-3330 or e-mail your request to support@train4career.net for pricing giving information like number of participants,convenient dates etc.