Certificate in Strategy and Change Management
Can you summarise your organisation's strategy in 40 words or less? Most executives cannot - and consequently neither can anyone else in their organisation.
The Certificate in Strategy and Change Management draws on the most recent insights into strategic thinking and change, to help you develop a deep understanding of the competitive essence of strategy.
The Certificate balances the conceptual with the pragmatic. A range of learning techniques are deployed, including authoritative briefings, facilitated live case studies and networking. The Strategy Challenge, an opportunity for programme members to develop their leadership skills and engage on a strategic challenge of their choice with a strategic expert is one of the highlights of the programme. The Certificate provides you with the means to apply your existing strategic leadership skills and new learning immediately, within your organisation.
Description
Part One of the Certificate: Strategy
The strategic business analysis is a necessity for successful strategies, and all managers can benefit from this programme equipping them with the terminologies, tools and models needed to conduct strategic business analysis. Upon completing the course delegates will be skilled in developing and choosing strategies taking into account the dynamics of the business environment and internal competencies delivering winning strategies.
Part Two of the Certificate: Change Management
You will also have improved your managerial skills in change management empowering you to deal with resistance to change and implement projects successfully. You will have an improved understanding of the causalities and processes in changing organisations and can display the required leadership.
Participants
Classes consist of professionals with diverse backgrounds and abilities as well as comparable levels of management experience. Managers and leaders attending the Certificate programme improve their personal business acumen and gain greater insights into other businesses. Organisations benefit from executives' improved business and managerial skills. This programme is ideal for those who are unable to take an extended leave to pursue a degree programme, but who would benefit from studying a specific area from the MBA curriculum.
The Henley learning experience
The Certificate equip delegates with improved and deeper knowledge of strategies, tools and applied theories in strategy and change enabling a more effective execution and realisation of strategic organisational goals. Participants benefit from interaction with Henley faculty and other participants, identify new best practices and learn to apply business theory in workplace situations. The Strategy Challenge is your opportunity to apply the concepts and best practices to your own organisation, and implement the new strategy.
Rakesh Sondhi, Professor
Programme Director at London Business School, Visiting Executive Faculty at Henley Business School and Professor at Rushmore University in the USA, has 23 years of management and strategy experience from senior management positions with blue chip companies, covering financial services, aviation and agricultural machine industries, all over the world. In addition, he has extensive experience of working with the automotive, apparel, IT, biotech and food sector. He is the author of "Total Strategy". Rakesh also has a number of non-executive directorships.
Content
Dynamics of the business environment
- Total strategy review
- Strategic mindsets and strategic thinking
- Systems thinking
- Analytics and business performance
- Environmental scanning
- Analysing the business environment
- The dynamics of competition
- Trend analysis
- Scenario thinking
- Forecasting.
Identifying internal competences
- Identifying internal strengths and weaknesses
- Culture and values
- The value chain and competitive advantage
- Portfolio analysis
- Defining core competences and distinctive capabilities
- Assessing current direction in terms of vision, mission and objectives.
Leveraging competitive advantage
- Understanding strategy and profit
- Analysing different businesses and profit patterns
- Creating and developing strategic choices
- Selecting appropriate strategies
- Strategy value added
- Strategy evaluation and decision-making
- Making the strategy come alive!
Concepts of Change Management
- The elements of change in an organisation
- Resistance to change
- Managing relationships in change management
- Communicating vision
- Cultural change in an organisation.
Leading change
- The change cycle
- Learning styles
- Project management
- Leadership styles
- Emotional and social intelligence
- Impact of leadership on performance and teams
- Learned optimism
- Appreciative inquiry
- Developing leaders and talent management.
Delivering high performance
- Measuring performance
- The Balanced Scorecard
- Translating your strategy into measures
- Measuring performance in the private and public sector.
Certificate in Strategy and Change Management
Duration: 6-day course inclusive books and other material
Price: DKK 34,990 excl. VAT
Dates:
Module 1: 19th - 20th November 2009
Module 2: 27th - 28th January 2010
Module 3: 18th - 19th March 2010
Venue:
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Strandvejen 44
2900 Hellerup
Denmark
Further questions, please contact:
Jesper Nytoft - email: jesper.nytoft@henleynordic.com
