Tactical Leadership

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Tactical Leadership

Duration: 2 Days/4 Hrs per session

Course Code: RTL

Course Description:

Senior leadership figures are typically tasked with executing strategic plans and managing multiple projects and programs aligned with the corporate vision. The significant amount of accountability that goes into organizational governance and direction requires substantial opportunities to develop a holistic business and financial acumen and complement this with sound leadership and influence principles.

The content of this Tactical Leadership Training course can properly equip senior leadership figures with a wealth of knowledge from established management theories and best practices meant to expound on lessons taken from its prerequisite course, Operational Leadership Training. Covering highly relevant topics from Change and Project Management to Risk and Resource Optimization to Fiscal Awareness, Tactical Leadership Training aims to provide yourManagers and Department Heads with the skills and knowledge to improve workplace efficiency and productivity and assume the role of a leader among leaders.

Course Objective:

At the end of this course, the participants will be able to understand:

•    How to leverage key influence styles in their current role
•    How to align objectives with stakeholder needs
•    How to create value for the organization and its stakeholders
•    The Balanced Scorecard principles and application
•    The principles in Handling the WAVE (Work Ethic, Values and Effectiveness)
•    The financial documents used in fiscal management in the organizations
•    The foundations of ROI and CBA
•    The concept and fundamentals of Change Management
•    Techniques to optimize work output
•    Additional methods for RCA and problem solving

Intended Audience:

This training is intended for leaders who assume a more senior role in the enterprise, overseeing entire verticals, departments, business units or other leadership figures within the organization:

• Tactical and Strategic Leaders
• Department Heads
• Program and Project Managers

Course Outline:

• Influence in Tactical Leadership
o The 4 Influence Styles
- Persuading/Reasoning
- Asserting/Directing
- Bridging/Collaborating
- Attracting/Visioning
- Push vs. Pull Concepts
o Utilizing influence in common scenarios

• Achieving Organizational Goals
o Governance Objectives
- Stakeholder Needs
- Value Creation
o The Path to Value
o The Balanced Scorecard
- Introduction to the BSC
- The Four Perspectives
- BSC Goal-setting and Performance Management

• Business Case Construction
o Business Case Purpose
o Components of a Business Case
o Business Case Format and Description
o Variable Options and Constraints

• Introduction to Handling the WAVE
o Conceptualized vs. Operationalized Values
o Linking corporate and individual values
o Developing Self-Management and interpersonal relations
o Professionalism in the workplace

• Introduction to Developing Financial Acumen
o Introduction to Business Finance
o Financial Statements Overview
- Balance Sheet
- Statement of Comprehensive Income
- Statement of Cash Flow
- Statement of Changes in Equity
- Notes to Financial Statements
o Return of Investment Principles
o Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis

• Change Management Fundamentals
o Learning and the Individual
o Change and the Individual
o Change and the Organization
o Key Roles in Organizational Change
o Kott’s 8-Step Change Model
o The Successful Change Life Cycle and Roles

• Work Optimization
o Effective delegation
o Time and stress management

• Problem Solving Methodology
o Ishikawa Diagram
o Pareto Analysis