An Interactive 10-Day Training Course
Creative Strategic Planning & Leadership
Developing Innovative, Visioning and Strategic Thinking Skills
Course Overview
This GLOMACS Creative Strategic Planning & Leadership training course is designed to provide leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximise their own and their team’s creative potential in a strategic context. Its starting-point is self-discovery: participants will work on the inside first and then focus outwards to impact on the world of business.
The focus of the first week of this 2-week Management & Leadership training course will be on thinking in different ways. Participants should be prepared to move out of their comfort zone and experiment with new ways of creating and communicating an inspiring leadership vision.
The second week helps demystify the frequently-misunderstood concept of ‘strategy’. Whilst focusing on the analytical disciplines on which successful strategy is based, it centres on strategic planning as a value-adding process which harnesses the leader’s and the team’s ability to combine analysis with creative thinking and enables ideas and plans to be nurtured through to reality.
The highlights of the 10-day training course are as follows:
- Demonstrating how to balance analytical and creative thinking in plans and decisions
- Understanding how to discover and focus the creative capabilities of teams and individuals
- Understanding the linkage between operational and strategic management
- Aligning your own responsibilities and objectives with the strategy of your organisation
- Improving personal leadership and management competencies
Modules
This training course is split into two modules:
Module I - Leading Creatively
Module II - Strategy & Strategic Planning
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
Training Outline
Module 1: Leading Creatively
DAY 1: Unlocking Creative Solutions
- The Art and Science of Creative Leadership and Key Principles
- Creative Leadership Reality Assessment and Unlocking Creativity
- Bridging Leadership and Management for Fostering a Creative Environment.
- Decoding Our Brain's Creativity: Our Brain Function
- Myths of Creativity and challenge the traditional Limitations of the Rational.
- Embracing Divergence and Divergent Approaches to Problem-solving and Letting Go of Logic
- Thinking Modes: Convergent and Divergent Modes: The Einstein Model
DAY 2: Breaking Through Creative Barriers
- Navigating the Sigmoid Curve and - Lifecycle Model
- Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Step Change Concept.
- Self-reflection and Alignment and Personal Goal Alignment/
- Innovation and Adaption and Personal Preferences for Creating Meaning
- Using the Nudge Principle and Understanding Attitudes to Risk.
- Balancing Brainpower: Left- and Right-brain Thinking, encouraging a holistic approach to creative problem-solving.
- Modern Case Studies of Creativity: Uber, Apple and Instagram.
DAY 3: Crafting a Vision with Creativity Thinking
- Diverse Thinking for Innovative Solutions – an Introduction
- The Six Thinking Hats methodology for Diverse Thinking Styles,
- Understanding and Communication JoHari's Window
- The Business Planning Process & Creating a Vision: Selling your Ideas.
- Team Dynamics and Culture Participants and Harnessing the Power of the Team
- Organisational Culture on Innovation: Implementing Change
- Letting Go of the Ego and Working with Different Creative Preferences.
DAY 4: Communicating Vision with Innovation and Promoting Your Ideas
- The Creative Process Unveiled and The 7 Step Creative Process,
- Presenting Ideas with Minto Model: A Roadmap from Inspiration to Implementation.
- Effective Communication and Presentation Techniques Models
- Inspiring Change Sessions on Viral Visioning, Authenticity and Trust, and Creativity Tools, Techniques and Strategy.
- Leadership Reimagined: on Letting Go of the Vision and Leading without Directing, challenging conventional leadership paradigms.
DAY 5: Implementing Creative Change
- Driving Motivation and Overcoming Barriers: Beyond the Hierarchy of Needs
- Overcoming Organisational Barriers to Creativity and Change.
- Fostering a Culture of Innovation by Nurturing a Learning Environment
- Building Consensus and Engagement Through Personality Profiling and Building a Creative Consensus
- Leading Through Transformation and Engaging Stakeholders Creatively
- Influencing and Motivating: Through Persuasion Science.
Module 2: Strategy & Strategic Planning
DAY 6: Strategic Thinking and External Analysis
- Definitions of strategy and strategic planning
- Why are strategy and strategic planning important
- Understanding the main frameworks for strategic analysis
- Private and public sector strategies – Similarities and Differences
- External analysis - Understanding and Analysing Business Attractiveness
- Analysing customers and benchmarking your own strategic position
- How attractive is the game that we have chosen to play
DAY 7: Internal Analysis and Fusion into Strategic Choice
- The interface and balance of external and internal analysis
- Internal analysis: Financial
- Internal analysis: Non-financial
- The concept and practicalities of the “balanced scorecard”
- Diagnosing and analysing strategic problems and opportunities
- Fusion of analysis into strategic choices - SWOT and the Strategy Matrix
- How well are we playing the game that we have chosen to play
DAY 8: Strategic Plans and the Relevance of Alliances and Joint Ventures
- Review of the tools used so far
- The content of a strategy: Avoiding “Paralysis by Analysis”
- Putting a strategic plan together – the 5-page framework
- Strategies for alliances and joint ventures
- Management of alliances and joint ventures
DAY 9: Global Strategy, Team Building and the Management of Internal Communication
- The essence of globalisation and global strategy
- Globalisation – The Strategic Dimension
- Globalisation – The Organisational Dimension
- Globalisation – The Human Dimension
- How to build and manage a strategic planning team
- Communicating strategy through the organisation
- Gaining your team’s commitment and buy-in to the strategy
DAY 10: Strategic Implementation and Getting the Value out of Strategy
- Alignment of strategy, culture, structure and people
- Effective execution - Converting Strategic Analysis and Planning into Action
- Aligning and linking strategy with operational objectives
- Implementation – Getting Practical Things Done
- Creating tomorrow’s organisation out of today’s organisation
- Strategic planning at a personal level
- Overview: The complete strategy process
- Summary and conclusions - The Corporate And Individual Value Of Strategic Planning
Certificates
- On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates
- Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) : In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsor, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance
Accreditation
GLOMACS is registered with NASBA as a sponsor of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. NASBA have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org.
All Training Seminars delivered by GLOMACS by default are eligible for CPE Credit.
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About Saudi Glomacs
At Saudi GLOMACS, we specialize in delivering world-class training courses in Saudi Arabia and across various international locations. Our training courses are tailored to meet the unique demands of Saudi Vision 2030 and the Human Capability Development Program, focusing on empowering Saudi citizens and enhancing workforce skills. We offer diverse courses spanning leadership, management, engineering, and technical disciplines to cultivate expertise and drive professional growth. Our flexible learning options—whether in-person, online, or in-house—ensure accessibility and convenience for individuals and organizations alike.
With over 30+ years of experience through the GLOMACS global network, we are committed to delivering innovative, results-driven training solutions. Our expert instructors combine industry knowledge with dynamic teaching methods, fostering practical skill development and long-term career success. By choosing Saudi GLOMACS, you're investing in personal excellence and contributing to the Kingdom’s sustainable economic growth and vision-driven transformation.
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