STRATEGY SHIFT COURSE
Strategic Leader
If you’re looking to take on more leadership responsibility and improve your impact as a leader you’ve come to the right place. We refer to a strategic leader because leadership should be about:
- Inspiring people with a clear, compelling ambition
- Making choices on where to focus and how to stand out
- Building an organisation that is capable, inclusive, and empowering
Strategic leaders embed a strategic mindset and practice in everything they do, cutting through the complexity of their organisation and uncertainty they face to create value. They’re distinct from executives who call themselves leaders but only focus on being busy, creating lots of work, and making incremental changes. Or, even worse, they spend their time dealing with crises due to poor decision-making.
Who do you want to become?
Who this course is for
- A manager looking to take on more leadership responsibility in their role
- A project, programme, or initiative leader
- A new leader, looking to make a big impact
- An established leader looking to strengthen skills
Benefits & content
In this course you’ll learn about the most important shifts in your mindsets and practice to become a strategic leader (from being a manager, for example):
- Listening attentively
- Empowering others
- Making smarter decision-making
- Showing greater composure in high pressure environments
- Being more focussed on the future
- Thinking more about the perspectives of others
These shifts are critical foundations as you look to master six essential practices of strategic leaders:
- How to enhance your curiosity about your customers, co-workers, and the world around you
- How best to stimulate your creativity
- How to sharpen your clarity of thinking and communicating
- How to strengthen your courage in difficult moments
- How to improve your coherence between your words and actions
- How to practise care for yourself, as well as your co-workers, peers, and clients
For each of these practices you’ll learn what they mean, what they involve, how to apply in your work, and what actions you can take. We also share a real-life example of each of them.
By the end of this course, you’ll feel more confident and capable, ready to take on your next leadership challenge!
Resources
- 17 recorded films
- The Strategic Leader Essentials Assessment
- ‘10 Principles of Strategic Leadership’ article
- An empowerment and accountability canvas
- An action planning canvas
- Strategic Leader certificate
Learning experience
- Listen: hear some new perspectives, experiences, and methods
- Ask: ask questions to clarify your understanding, spark your curiosity, and challenge your way of thinking
- Try: start some experiments to try a new mindset or practice. Use the Strategic Leader Assessment to identify your strengths and development points and use the canvases to capture your learning from the experiments you design
- Reflect: reflect on what you tried and figure out what you will do next time
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