Business Transformation: Leading Your Business Forward

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• Why Choose this Course?

  If you are looking to transform your organization from ‘Business as Usual’ to become a focused, dynamic entity full of energy & purpose, and committed to ongoing success, you will recognize that the answer is subtle. You cannot do it alone, you need to show Leadership & Determination and take others with you. You need to align goals, people & systems. Transforming your business is more than mere change or improvement, it is a major challenge to people and organizations, requiring a holistic approach, stakeholder inclusive, planned, measured and deployed effectively.

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• This training course will support your understanding of how to lead and participate in organizational transformation, and help you implement well. It will tell you what to do & not to do, when & in what order.

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  This training course will feature:

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    Defining transformation; the end state and the process
  • Organizing and aligning the essential ingredients, infrastructure and resources for transformation
  • Leading and managing the stakeholders
  • A methodology for delegates to take stock of their businesses’ current position and plan transformation
  • Common errors and case studies illustrating poorly founded and well-founded approaches to organizational transformation and their outcomes
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• By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

   

  • Understand the requirements for, and challenges of, effective organizational transformation
  • Identify key stakeholders and understand how to gain their support, motivation and input
  • Demonstrate commitment & resolve in championing & leading transformation
  • Develop & utilise the skills & tools necessary to plan, manage and deliver transformation
  • Align objectives, project plan transformation & schedule work
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  This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

   

  • Senior Leaders who want to transform their business
  • Managers, section heads & team leaders tasked with transformational tasks or roles
  • Change management, Quality, Excellence & Risk professionals who want to learn techniques to support transformation
  • Project, Purchasing, Finance, Operations and Human Resources professionals likely to be involved in, or affected by, organizational transformation
  • All staff wanting to be agents of change, rather than victims of change

   

  Course Outline

   

  Day One: Defining Business Transformation

   

  • The Differences between Transformation & Change
  • Types of Transformation
  • The Place of Innovation
  • The Importance of the Business Model
  • The Requirements for and Challenges of Successful Organisational Transformation
  • Why Transformation projects fail

   

  Day Two: The Leadership role in Transformation

   

  • Purpose & Vision
  • Role of Leaders
  • The Importance of Communication
  • Managing the Stakeholders
  • Goals, Objectives and Measurement
  • Shaping the Future

   

  Day Three: Planning & Preparing for Transformation

   

  • Taking stock of a Businesses’ current position
  • Defining the End State
  • Building a Plan
  • Delegate Self-analysis
  • Key principles; Do’s & Do Not’s
  • Building the Guiding Team

   

  Day Four: Aligning Goals, People and Systems

   

  • Getting All on Board
  • Dealing with Resistance
  • Managing People through Change
  • Project and Programme Management
  • Monitoring & Control
  • Sustainment

   

  Day Five: How to Start

   

  • Establishing Purpose & Objectives
  • Planning Deployment
  • Assembling the Guiding Team
  • Building in Safeguards
  • The Next Steps
  • Course Review