CMC: Moving From an Operational Manager to a Strategic Leader and Thinker

Vancouver - September 22, 2010

Seminar Details

Seize the helm, not the lifeboat!

If you want to move from being a good manager to being a great manager, this seminar will enable you to acquire key insights, ideas and planned actions to add value to your organization and move your team forward to heightened success.

Take this opportunity to be proactive. Instead of being buried in your department’s ongoing activities, you will become an innovator, a persuasive player and a champion for strategic change. Add value to your organization, your customers and your stakeholders.

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT

  * Discover the key factors to define and drive your business goals and opportunities
  * Identify your key strengths and those of your team
  * Create an action plan for personal development
  * Add value to your organization, its customers and stakeholders
  * Encourage and support risk taking and innovation at all levels

YOU WILL LEARN

  * To recognize emerging opportunities for strategic leaders
  * The best ways to communicate your strategic vision
  * How to anticipate, initiate and manage change for maximum competitiveness
  * The importance of establishing critical strategic success factors for customers/clients
  * Techniques for increasing your influencing skills as a leader
  * Persuasive skills to sell your strategic ideas

ADDITIONAL TOPICS:

Crossing from Operational Management to Strategic Leadership

  * Explore the key attributes of managers vs. those of leaders
  * Assess your current use of effective operating management and strategic leadership practices in your current work setting

Mission of the Organization

  * Clarify the purpose of your work unit in the context of your organization
  * Develop a draft mission statement for future strategic decision-making

A Vision of the Future

  * Identify the forces influencing the future of your work unit
  * Formulate a plan to implement the visioning process as a key step in applying your new strategic leadership skills back in the workplace

A Strategic Frame of Reference

  * Develop a strategic approach for your own work environment
  * Define key outputs at each level, using the model as a planning tool, for your actual business situation

Priorities for Strategic Action

  * Use a tool for setting your work unit’s priorities, and apply it to a real business situation
  * Determine optimal approaches for developing customer input and data
  * Develop a plan to use the tool back at work

Profile of the Manager/Leader

  * Evaluate your current application of managerial and strategic leadership approaches using a self-assessment tool
  * Plan specific actions to take back to your workplace by looking at your own staff in terms of what they currently need from you as a strategic leader

Communication and Influence Skills

  * Develop strategies for increasing your influencing skills as a leader
  * Explore a range of options for enhancing communication effectiveness

Leading Change

  * Relate organizational change to major business trends
  * Assess your skills in leading change
  * Plan strategies for specific change

Strategic Plan for Personal Growth

  * Select specific applications of the concepts and develop specific implementation strategies, including a timetable for taking action when you return to work

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING CREDITS

12 PDUs

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  * Experienced managers with three to five years of experience.

COURSE PODCASTS

  * 8 Ways a Leader Can Improve Themselves with the CMC Leadership Seminar by Richard Casavant

Event Details

Location:  Vancouver, British Columbia
Date: September 22 - 23, 2010
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Regular Fee: $1,795.00
Member Fee: $1,645.00
Duration: 2 Days

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