Strategy & Leadership: Aligning Organizations for Performance
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Program Objectives
Research indicates a changing view of leadership in times of transition away from reactive toward proactive change management through the creation and stewardship of more flexible, networked organizational cultures. This program was developed to provide today's executive with the strategic and business insight for determining the actions required to get sustained results for competitive advantage.
Strategy & Leadership prepares you to act as a change agent in aligning people and strategy for organizational excellence. You will learn new ways of assessing appropriate operational focus, developing strategic long-term direction, and leveraging financial and human resources systems that promote organizational effectiveness and financial performance.
Who Should Attend?
This program is for executives who have or will have responsibility for strategic planning and decision making in the organization. It is designed for those charged with a significant amount of responsibility for organizational improvements. Past attendees have included vice presidents, directors and general managers from public and private organizations, as well as heads and chiefs from government entities.
Program Benefits
Led by a top 10 leadership coach, experienced and engaging faculty will provide models and frameworks to help you transform vision into actual results. Specifically, you will be equipped to:
- Develop the appropriate focus and capabilities to compete in a volatile marketplace
- Learn when and how to capitalize on opportunities
- Understand leadership challenges based on financial information
- Use financial information for decision making and setting direction
- Assess your organization’s culture and competency for change
- Implement best practices for leading change
- Strengthen your leadership effectiveness
- Understand how attitudes and values affect performance and behavior
- Create a high-performance team
Program Content
The program takes you from a 30,000 foot analysis of the corporate condition to implementation of operational change at ground–level operations. Specific topics covered are:
Strategic Leadership
- Assessing the external environment
- Setting direction for your organization
- Managing cycles of change
- Enhancing leadership effectiveness
- Encouraging flexibility and creativity
Aligning Business Strategy with Corporate Accountability
- Assessing the role of finance in your organization
- Leadership styles and models of financial management
- Achieving sustainable, profitable growth
- Financial targets and leadership challenges
Enhancing People Systems
- Leadership roles and responsibilities
- Team-building methods and procedures
- Motivation and reward systems
Implementing Change
- Enacting organizational models in a global environment
- Assessing organizational vision
- Translating strategic intent into action
“This was among the highest quality organizational leadership program that I have ever attended!”
B. Dale Bridges
Technical Director
US Air Force
Value Created for You and Your Company
This program emphasizes active involvement. Strategy & Leadership employs the following model that personalizes your learning in this distinctively immersing experience:
First, faculty leaders—one of whom is a top 10 leadership coach—present relevant models and frameworks, discuss how these concepts are being applied in organizations around the world, and work with you to determine how they apply to your situations.
Second, you will use three assessment tools in which you will analyze your current organizational and personal leadership environment using your own data: the Strategy, Leadership, Culture Questionnaire (SLCQ®); a 360-degree Leadership Assessment Survey; and the Management Communications Diagnostic Questionnaire (DQ). Feedback given in both group discussion and reflection sessions allow participants to build bridges between program content and real-world applicability.
Third, throughout the program you will work with the information gathered to progress through a template that provides a well-developed perspective on your business culture and leadership role in it.
Faculty Leaders
Faculty Director
Faculty Leaders
For more information contact:
Penn State Executive Programs
Smeal College of Business
The Pennsylvania State University
382 Business Building
University Park, PA 16802-3603
Phone: 814-865-3435
Fax: 814-865-3372
On the Web:
http://www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/index.html
Email: psep@psu.edu
