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Leading & Managing through Strategic Planning & Innovation

Developing Deliverable Strategies

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This training course is split into the following modular components:

MODULE I Strategic Planning, Development & Implementation
MODULE II Certificate in Smart Leadership

This comprehensive course consists of two modules that can be attended as a full 10-Day event or as separate 5-day courses.

Why Choose Us

Leading & Managing through Strategic Planning & Innovation Training Course is designed to equip leaders and managers with the strategic insight and practical leadership skills required to navigate change, drive innovation, and achieve sustainable organisational success in a dynamic business environment. This two-week intensive training course blends strategic planning with leadership execution, ensuring participants can translate vision into measurable action.

The first week focuses on developing robust strategic frameworks, defining organisational direction, and building a clear strategic roadmap aligned with vision, mission, and performance targets. Participants explore how strategic intent is shaped, how critical choices are made, and how leaders can balance operational excellence with breakthrough strategic performance. Emphasis is placed on understanding strategic environments, leadership impact, and implementation challenges.

The second week drills deeper into leadership behaviours, workforce engagement, and innovation practices that ensure strategies are successfully embedded across the organisation. Participants learn how to engage employees, encourage creative thinking, overcome resistance to change, and build an organisational climate that supports continuous improvement and innovation. This Strategic Planning and Innovation Training Course is strongly recommended for strategic leaders to attend in full, ensuring alignment between strategy creation and execution across all organisational levels.

Why Choose Leading & Managing through Strategic Planning & Innovation
Course Goals

What are the Goals?

This intensive ten-day Leading & Managing through Strategic Planning & Innovation Training Course aims to strengthen strategic leadership capability while enabling participants to implement innovation-driven change effectively across their organisations.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Develop the three essential strategic leadership agendas: intellectual, managerial, and behavioural
  • Balance operational excellence with breakthrough strategic performance
  • Identify critical strategic issues, risks, and emerging opportunities
  • Encourage innovative thinking and support new strategic initiatives
  • Engage teams in problem-solving and idea generation
  • Create organisational environments that support strategic change
  • Translate strategic intent into clear actions and measurable outcomes
  • Strengthen leadership influence during periods of transformation

This Strategic Leadership Training Course ensures participants leave with practical tools and a structured approach to planning, innovation, and leadership execution.

Who is this Training Course for?

This Leading & Managing through Strategic Planning & Innovation Training Course is designed for professionals involved in shaping, leading, or implementing strategy within medium to large organisations.

It is particularly suitable for:

  • Current and aspiring strategic leaders
  • First-line managers and senior supervisors
  • Department heads and functional managers
  • Strategy, planning, and transformation professionals
  • Leaders responsible for organisational change initiatives
  • Professionals preparing for broader leadership responsibilities

The course content and delivery style support participants across public and private sector organisations who are expected to lead strategy development, innovation initiatives, and workforce engagement efforts.

Learning Approach

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This Leading & Managing through Strategic Planning & Innovation Training Course is delivered through an interactive and highly practical learning approach designed to maximise engagement and real-world application.

The course presentation includes:

  • Facilitated workshops led by an experienced strategic planning consultant
  • Group discussions and collaborative team activities
  • Practical case studies based on real organisational challenges
  • Video-based learning to reinforce strategic concepts
  • Hands-on exercises focused on innovation and leadership behaviours
  • Structured reflection and guided learning reviews

Participants are actively encouraged to share experiences, test new ideas, and apply frameworks directly to their organisational context. The course concludes with personal action planning to ensure learning transfer and long-term impact within the workplace.

The Course Content

MODULE I

Strategic Planning, Development & Implementation

Understanding the Strategic Environment
  • Understanding the impact of leadership competencies on company strategy
  • Recognizing and interpreting forces in the strategic environment
  • Understanding the importance of planned and creative approaches to strategy development
  • Recognizing organizational change readiness and strategic inflection points
  • Recognizing the impact of perceptions on strategic choices
Understanding Strategic Models and Paradigms
  • The strategic journey – common models and frameworks to enable strategic choices
  • Developing a strategic roadmap
  • Understanding and leveraging strategic competences and skills
  • Case Study: managing well in an unpredictable environment
  • Recognizing and developing the characteristics of strategic agility
Effective Strategic Implementation
  • Recognising the key challenges of strategy implementation
  • Understanding the impact of structures on organisational effectiveness
  • Using the 7S model to analyse organisational competence
  • Turning measurement into information to track performance and inform future strategy
  • Building learning organisations to support agility
Strategic Leadership
  • Effective styles and practices of strategic leaders
  • Recognizing, analysing and developing the strategic leadership styles used by you and others
  • Great leaders inspire and motivate – do carrots and sticks work?
  • Develop your leadership toolkit by understanding motivation theories
  • Case Study: Practice your negotiation skills in complex circumstances
Driving Strategic Performance & Success
  • More leadership styles: servant leadership and dispersed leadership
  • Understanding the human impact of change
  • Understanding employee engagement
  • Using communication media effectively
  • Achieving success through a dynamic equilibrium between compliance and innovation
MODULE II

Certificate in Smart Leadership

Leading Creativity and Innovation at Work
  • Understanding Strategy and Leadership in the 21st century
  • Innovation vs. Constant Improvement
  • Innovative Leadership as a Transformative Force for Success
  • The critical mass for change and innovation
  • Case Study of Innovative Companies
  • Applying Leadership to Achieve Creativity and Innovation
Achieving Workforce Engagement
  • How the G.E. “Workout” Model Engaged Employees
  • Achieving “Buy-In” from Your Workforce
  • Developing Creative Solutions for Problems and New Strategies
  • Overcoming Old Paradigms
  • The Characteristics of “Organizational Drift”
  • Achieving Results by Leading an Empowered Workforce
Leadership with a Creative Edge
  • Developing Creative Potential in People and Teams
  • How Profiling may Reveal the Creativity in People
  • Thinking Skills and Multiple Intelligences
  • Learning New Brainstorming Techniques
  • How to Incubate New Ideas
  • Interacting with ‘Creatives’ using Influence and Persuasion
  • Creative Group Exercise: Identifying Business Processes
Creating a Motivating Climate for Higher Productivity
  • Key Elements in Creating New Missions
  • Establishing Goals and Targets with Creative Flair
  • Building a “Sense of Significance and Purpose”
  • Emotional Intelligence as a Motivator
  • Rewarding and Encouraging High Performance
  • “Pygmalion and Galatea” Theories Behind Individual Performance
  • Group and Team Motivation
Driving Strategic Change
  • Managing the Change Process
  • Kotter’s Change Management Techniques
  • Successful Techniques for Leading Effective Change
  • How a Leader Communicates a ‘Sense of Urgency’
  • Overcome the Challenges of Change in Organisations
  • Creating an Attitude of Perpetual Change and Improvement
  • Course Review and Personal Goals
Recognition

Certificate

  • • Wallstreet Development Academy Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course.
Collaborations

In Partnership With

Anderson Copex Coventry