Strategic Management Skills Programme

For owner-mangers and senior executives of Smaller Enterprises

This Programme is run for groups of up to 12 participants.

The specific content can be tailored to the needs of particular groups and the structure can be flexed or even redesigned to suit participant's situations.

Typically this programme is sponsored by trade associations, Enterprise Boards or organised for industry groupings.

Please contact us if you would like us to run this, or a suitably amended programme, for your interest group

Focus

The focus of this programme is to help the participants to develop a strategic awareness of issues impacting on the development of their business and to open up to a range of skills they will need in order to lead and manage their business successfully.

The individual topics dealt with are important and will deliver key learning points. The overall concepts and thrust emerging from the whole programme as the different strands knit together will provide a significant management platform.

Who is it for?

The programme is designed for owner-managers and CEO's of smaller enterprises. These are the people who are absolutely critical to the survival and development of the business. They need some clear 'steers' about core strategic issues - the handling of which will determine to a considerable extent whether their business prospers or not. And they need distilled, clear ideas about how to lead and manage at the coal-face on a day-to-day basis within a sensible overall strategy.

The Structure & Format

The overall programme is structured in two parts:

  1. A total of 12 group sessions will be held - 10 of these typically run as half-days, and 2 others as longer 6-hour workshop sessions. Some of the half-day sessions can be combined into full days.
  2. One-to-one half day consultation/coaching sessions per participant. The Programme is structured to squeeze the maximum benefit for the participants into as short a time away from the job as possible.

The 'learning' will come through four principal avenues:

  1. Teaching input from the presenters. The team of presenters will deliver state-of-the-art information on a range of topics which are central to the running of a business
  2. Active participation and interaction. Within the group of participants will be a reservoir of experience and learning. This will be constantly drawn on through discussion to test, sift and filter the 'formal' inputs and to hone them into working ideas and tools. This will promote networking among participants after the programme is long finished.
  3. One-to-one consultation/coaching sessions. Every business is unique and each participant will have his/her own specific difficulties. These half-day one-to-one sessions will be scheduled during the month following the end of the group sessions. They are designed to help individuals to address specific problems within their own businesses and to get some help applying the learning drawn from the formal part of the programme.
  4. Reference Notes. The teaching sessions will be supported by comprehensive notes which will consolidate the learning from the group sessions and are designed as good future reference material on each topics

Syllabus

The following is a typical range of topics covered in the Programme:

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