Director's Role in Leading the Organisation

This two day course provides a valuable opportunity for Directors to explore strategic leadership issues and board members' roles in successfully implementing the corporate strategy. It considers how directors, individually and collectively, can create a culture and environment which encourages creativity, innovation, energy and employee commitment.

It also assesses how to align and engage resources and key stakeholders in the change process, how decision making and conflict can be handled and addresses how issues such as ethics and corporate responsibility need to be embedded in the strategic narrative. By reviewing alternative approaches and examining best practice techniques, the course provides directors with tools, techniques and ideas which can enhance an organisation's success.

Who should attend?

Directors and Executives, from all sizes of organisations and industry sectors.

What to expect

• A practical approach to leading people through strategy implementation in organisations
• Exploration of the dilemmas faced by directors today including ethics, corporate responsibility and talent management
• An opportunity to assess different leadership and decision making techniques, ways of handling resistance to change and how all these could be applied in your own organisation
• Consideration of how to establish an environment in which ideas can be generated, creativity encouraged and new knowledge exploited
• Provides real-life examples, reference material and post-course e-learning that reinforces the key learning points

Course Objectives

Participation on this course will enable you to:

• Create a culture which engages others constructively in the business in order to achieve the strategic objectives which add value to the company and to its customers
• Understand what is actually needed to deliver a successful strategy in terms of decision making, alignment of resources and people development
• Develop effective methods for implementing strategies or strategic change as an individual leader and as a member of an executive team
• Align performance monitoring with the need to remain innovative as a means of driving continuous improvement and keeping key stakeholders engaged in taking the organisation forward

This course counts towards the Certificate in Company Direction.