Leadership & Management
The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional
This five-day programme builds professionals who can both set direction and carry people with them. Participants develop skills in strategic analysis and positioning, decision quality, leadership influence and people development, and execution and change leadership.
Introduction
The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional Training Course builds professionals who can both set direction and carry people with them. Participants work through strategy formulation, decision quality, leadership practice, and professional conduct as one connected capability. The programme prepares learners for roles where results depend on judgement, influence, and consistency rather than title alone. As a result, participants gain a professional standard they can apply across functions and levels. Furthermore, the course strengthens ethical reasoning, stakeholder credibility, and the discipline needed to deliver under pressure.
The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional Course Objectives
- Formulate strategic intent and translate it into measurable objectives.
- Analyse the strategic environment using PESTLE, Porter's Five Forces, and scenario planning.
- Assess organizational capability with the VRIO framework and value chain analysis.
- Apply SWOT analysis and strategic group mapping to guide positioning.
- Make structured decisions using decision matrices and multi-criteria decision analysis.
- Set and cascade objectives with the Balanced Scorecard and OKRs.
- Apply leadership styles and situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard) appropriately.
- Build influence and stakeholder alignment with power-interest grids.
- Coach and develop people using the GROW model and structured feedback with SBI.
- Lead change with Kotter's eight steps and the ADKAR model.
Course Methodology
- Interactive sessions built on strategy and leadership cases.
- Workshops on strategic analysis, decision-making, and leadership practice.
- Group work on stakeholder plans, alignment, and change design.
- Hands-on practice with Balanced Scorecard, OKRs, power-interest grids, and decision matrices.
- Simulation of a leadership under pressure and a contested strategic decision.
- Facilitator coaching and peer review on professional development plans.
Who Should Take This Course
- Managers and professionals with strategic or leadership duties.
- Senior specialists moving into leadership roles.
- Strategy, planning, and performance professionals.
- Programme and transformation leaders.
- Functional leaders with cross-departmental influence.
- Consultants advising on strategy and leadership development.
The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional Course Outlines
Strategic Foundations and Professional Purpose
- • What strategy is and what it is not.
- • Strategic intent, mission, vision, and measurable objectives.
- • Levels of strategy: corporate, business, and functional.
- • Deliberate versus emergent strategy (Mintzberg).
- • The professional's role in strategy and decision-making.
- • Personal purpose, values, and professional credibility.
- • Case discussion: a strategy that failed because leadership lost focus.
Strategic Analysis and Positioning
- • PESTLE and scenario planning for an uncertain environment.
- • Industry structure with Porter's Five Forces.
- • Strategic group mapping and competitor analysis.
- • Resource-based view and the VRIO framework.
- • Value chain analysis and core competence identification.
- • SWOT analysis and positioning choices.
- • Workshop: analysing a sector and defending a strategic position.
Decision Quality and Strategic Choice
- • Generic strategies: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
- • Decision trees and multi-criteria decision analysis.
- • Countering cognitive biases: anchoring, confirmation bias, escalation of commitment.
- • Pre-mortem analysis, red teaming, and devil's advocacy.
- • Setting objectives with the Balanced Scorecard and OKRs.
- • Strategic risk registers and mitigation planning.
- • Exercise: appraising three strategic options with a decision matrix.
Leadership Practice and Influence
- • Leadership styles and situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard).
- • Emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and personal presence.
- • Building influence with stakeholder mapping and power-interest grids.
- • Communication, persuasion, and structured briefing.
- • Coaching with the GROW model and feedback with the SBI model.
- • Delegation, empowerment, and decision rights with RACI.
- • Simulation: aligning a resistant group behind a difficult decision.
Execution, Change, and Professional Standards
- • Translating strategy into execution plans, milestones, and accountability.
- • Leading change with Kotter's eight steps and the ADKAR model.
- • Managing resistance and sustaining momentum.
- • Strategic control, KPIs, and review cadence.
- • Ethics, integrity, and professional conduct under pressure.
- • Building capability, succession, and personal development planning.
- • Capstone: presenting an integrated strategy and leadership plan.
Conclusion
By successfully completing The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional, participants will gain an integrated command of strategy formulation, decision quality, and leadership practice. They will acquire skills in strategic analysis, stakeholder alignment, coaching and feedback, and change leadership grounded in professional ethics. Gentex Training Center designs the programme to help professionals set direction and carry people with them.
FAQs
— What is the "The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional" course about?
It builds professionals who can both set direction and carry people with them. The course spans strategic foundations and professional purpose, strategic analysis and positioning, decision quality and strategic choice, leadership practice and influence, and execution, change, and professional standards.
— What are the key benefits of the "The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional" course?
You gain a professional standard you can apply across functions and levels. The course sharpens strategic and decision judgement, strengthens influence and stakeholder credibility, improves coaching and feedback practice, and prepares you to deliver results under pressure with consistency.
— What skills will I gain from the "The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional" course?
You will develop four core skills: strategic analysis and positioning, decision quality and strategic choice, leadership influence and people development, and execution, change, and professional standards.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional" course?
The course covers PESTLE, scenario planning, Porter's Five Forces, strategic group mapping, the VRIO framework, value chain analysis, SWOT, generic strategies, decision trees and multi-criteria decision analysis, pre-mortem analysis, red teaming, devil's advocacy, the Balanced Scorecard, OKRs, strategic risk registers, situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard), power-interest grids, the GROW coaching model, the SBI (Situation-Behaviour-Impact) feedback model, RACI, Kotter's eight steps, and the ADKAR model.
— How is the "The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply it to real work such as defending a strategic position to senior stakeholders, building a Balanced Scorecard for a function, aligning a resistant group behind a difficult decision, and leading a change programme. The same methods support succession planning and professional development reviews.
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Introduction
The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional Training Course builds professionals who can both set direction and carry people with them. Participants work through strategy formulation, decision quality, leadership practice, and professional conduct as one connected capability. The programme prepares learners for roles where results depend on judgement, influence, and consistency rather than title alone. As a result, participants gain a professional standard they can apply across functions and levels. Furthermore, the course strengthens ethical reasoning, stakeholder credibility, and the discipline needed to deliver under pressure.
The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional Course Objectives
- Formulate strategic intent and translate it into measurable objectives.
- Analyse the strategic environment using PESTLE, Porter's Five Forces, and scenario planning.
- Assess organizational capability with the VRIO framework and value chain analysis.
- Apply SWOT analysis and strategic group mapping to guide positioning.
- Make structured decisions using decision matrices and multi-criteria decision analysis.
- Set and cascade objectives with the Balanced Scorecard and OKRs.
- Apply leadership styles and situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard) appropriately.
- Build influence and stakeholder alignment with power-interest grids.
- Coach and develop people using the GROW model and structured feedback with SBI.
- Lead change with Kotter's eight steps and the ADKAR model.
Course Methodology
- Interactive sessions built on strategy and leadership cases.
- Workshops on strategic analysis, decision-making, and leadership practice.
- Group work on stakeholder plans, alignment, and change design.
- Hands-on practice with Balanced Scorecard, OKRs, power-interest grids, and decision matrices.
- Simulation of a leadership under pressure and a contested strategic decision.
- Facilitator coaching and peer review on professional development plans.
Who Should Take This Course
- Managers and professionals with strategic or leadership duties.
- Senior specialists moving into leadership roles.
- Strategy, planning, and performance professionals.
- Programme and transformation leaders.
- Functional leaders with cross-departmental influence.
- Consultants advising on strategy and leadership development.
The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional Course Outlines
Strategic Foundations and Professional Purpose
- • What strategy is and what it is not.
- • Strategic intent, mission, vision, and measurable objectives.
- • Levels of strategy: corporate, business, and functional.
- • Deliberate versus emergent strategy (Mintzberg).
- • The professional's role in strategy and decision-making.
- • Personal purpose, values, and professional credibility.
- • Case discussion: a strategy that failed because leadership lost focus.
Strategic Analysis and Positioning
- • PESTLE and scenario planning for an uncertain environment.
- • Industry structure with Porter's Five Forces.
- • Strategic group mapping and competitor analysis.
- • Resource-based view and the VRIO framework.
- • Value chain analysis and core competence identification.
- • SWOT analysis and positioning choices.
- • Workshop: analysing a sector and defending a strategic position.
Decision Quality and Strategic Choice
- • Generic strategies: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
- • Decision trees and multi-criteria decision analysis.
- • Countering cognitive biases: anchoring, confirmation bias, escalation of commitment.
- • Pre-mortem analysis, red teaming, and devil's advocacy.
- • Setting objectives with the Balanced Scorecard and OKRs.
- • Strategic risk registers and mitigation planning.
- • Exercise: appraising three strategic options with a decision matrix.
Leadership Practice and Influence
- • Leadership styles and situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard).
- • Emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and personal presence.
- • Building influence with stakeholder mapping and power-interest grids.
- • Communication, persuasion, and structured briefing.
- • Coaching with the GROW model and feedback with the SBI model.
- • Delegation, empowerment, and decision rights with RACI.
- • Simulation: aligning a resistant group behind a difficult decision.
Execution, Change, and Professional Standards
- • Translating strategy into execution plans, milestones, and accountability.
- • Leading change with Kotter's eight steps and the ADKAR model.
- • Managing resistance and sustaining momentum.
- • Strategic control, KPIs, and review cadence.
- • Ethics, integrity, and professional conduct under pressure.
- • Building capability, succession, and personal development planning.
- • Capstone: presenting an integrated strategy and leadership plan.
Conclusion
By successfully completing The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional, participants will gain an integrated command of strategy formulation, decision quality, and leadership practice. They will acquire skills in strategic analysis, stakeholder alignment, coaching and feedback, and change leadership grounded in professional ethics. Gentex Training Center designs the programme to help professionals set direction and carry people with them.
FAQs
— What is the "The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional" course about?
It builds professionals who can both set direction and carry people with them. The course spans strategic foundations and professional purpose, strategic analysis and positioning, decision quality and strategic choice, leadership practice and influence, and execution, change, and professional standards.
— What are the key benefits of the "The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional" course?
You gain a professional standard you can apply across functions and levels. The course sharpens strategic and decision judgement, strengthens influence and stakeholder credibility, improves coaching and feedback practice, and prepares you to deliver results under pressure with consistency.
— What skills will I gain from the "The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional" course?
You will develop four core skills: strategic analysis and positioning, decision quality and strategic choice, leadership influence and people development, and execution, change, and professional standards.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional" course?
The course covers PESTLE, scenario planning, Porter's Five Forces, strategic group mapping, the VRIO framework, value chain analysis, SWOT, generic strategies, decision trees and multi-criteria decision analysis, pre-mortem analysis, red teaming, devil's advocacy, the Balanced Scorecard, OKRs, strategic risk registers, situational leadership (Hersey-Blanchard), power-interest grids, the GROW coaching model, the SBI (Situation-Behaviour-Impact) feedback model, RACI, Kotter's eight steps, and the ADKAR model.
— How is the "The Complete Strategy and Leadership Professional" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply it to real work such as defending a strategic position to senior stakeholders, building a Balanced Scorecard for a function, aligning a resistant group behind a difficult decision, and leading a change programme. The same methods support succession planning and professional development reviews.
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