Enterprise Leadership for Transformation - Ready (Synchronous e-learning )

About This Course

Course Objectives for Part 1 (Ready)
To enhance leadership and business growth capabilities of SME owner / leaders through
• A practical learning program that trains business leaders in business fundamentals for growth, tailored to SME needs
• Guided mentoring that supports the development of viable business growth plans
• Mentor / Peer / Community / Alumni / Market immersion engagement that supports growth plan implementation

On this first part, learning journey themes and objectives could include the following (given volatile environment, detailed content will be continuously developed and refined):

A readiness workshop
• Give participating SMEs a framework to understand and self-assess their readiness for growth across business and personal dimensions, help them understand how this program can accelerate their growth
A learning journey on Business Strategy and Execution
•How to integrate the internal (competence) and external (competitors) dimensions of strategy by jointly analysing the different levers of competitive advantage.
•How to apply the business model canvas as a tool for predicting and engineering successful disruption.
•How to turn some of the common challenges faced in emerging markets into opportunities for sustainable competitive advantage.
•How to achieve a successful organizational alignment to complement the winning emerging market strategy.
•How to leverage strategy implementation as a business differentiator.
•Why leaders need to think and work different to implement strategy.
•Adopt a framework for success
•Understand how the eight areas for excellence in execution support your implementation

A learning journey on Digitization and Transforming the Business
•To equip participants with an understanding of why, how and what technological innovations can play a part in successful business transformation implementation.
•Key reasons digital executions fail
•State of digital research
•Difference between traditional and digital execution
•To highlight advantages and disadvantages of various communication strategies.
•To explore strategies that can motivate, as well as address resistance to change.
•To examine factors that affect ‘stickability’.

A learning journey on Growing the Leadership Team
•Learn how to identify relevant stakeholders, their needs, and different ways to influence them.
•Learn how to think through the leadership demanded of him (her), how to understand his (her) own effectiveness, and how to identify gaps between the two
•Understand the intersection between growth and transition
•Learn about the emotional, family and social dynamics that make transition difficult
•Learn about the levers that can be used to make transition more effective, and unleash the growth potential inherent in transitions