Strategy for Emerging Leaders
Take strategy from theory to practice as you enter your first foray into management. Establish yourself as a well rounded leader and learn how to make lasting organisational impact in your role.
Programme impact
Experience strategic thinking
Insight driven strategy takes knowledge and understanding. Can you understand the choices you have to make, and the nature of emerging technological threats to incorporate into your own strategy?
- Good for you
- Good for your organisation
Meet the challenges facing new leaders head-on, building strategy skills and awareness and drawing on recognised key concepts to make better future-focused decisions.
Develop confidence in your ability to fact-find, including understanding the right conversations to have and the tools that will support your growth into a strategic thinker.
Establish a strategic mindset, reevaluating the way you think about strategy and the ideas that make up the field.
Learn how to think on both an organisational and individual level about what strategy means to you, as you build it into an essential tool for furthering your career.
Understand the relationship between corporate and business unit strategy as you explore the global impact of strategic viewpoints in an ever-changing world.
Put your strategy theory into practice with experiential opportunities, including simulations and discovery visits.
3
professional experience
required
This course is designed for new and incoming leaders who want to understand and apply core business strategy concepts to their own business areas and the wider organisation. Participants should have at least 3 years of professional experience and have recently taken on, or plan to take on, a strategic role in the near future.
Programme content
A strategic step forward
Explore the role of business models in building sustainable competitive advantage and learn frameworks for analysing and shaping organisational strategy.
- What you learn
- How you learn
- Your learning experience
Explore key themes over the course of five days developed through insights from academic research and practical application, you will learn the benefits and core skills required to apply strategic thinking to your decision-making.
Introduction to strategy: Focus on what strategy is and isn’t, share your objectives and existing knowledge with the group, and start to explore some simple case discussions that will expose you to the challenge of doing strategy well in practice.
Market-based strategy: You’ll be encouraged to think about the relationship between strategy, the nature of your industry, and trends in the market. Engage in discussions about profit pools and sources and paces of growth, as well as the challenges of spotting emerging trends and strategic opportunities.
Resources and capabilities: Discuss the difference between externally driven opportunities and those that originate from organisational resources and capabilities. You will think through what makes your own organisation’s differentiators and their potential link to future success.
Platform-based strategies: Understand the differing natures of strategies that require a more ecosystem-based approach to competition, where competitors might become collaborators, and the technology that can make it easier or harder to compete.
The future of strategy: Explore contemporary and future challenges facing your business, as well as strategic leaders’ ability to manipulate various influential factors and trends to your benefit.
Strategy in context: In one final session, you will be encouraged to think about different levels of strategic thinking and strategic ownership within your organisation. This will include considering the difference between multi-divisional strategic choices, those that happen within one business, and how strategy can influence and effect change. You will also reflect on your new skills and how you can apply them going forward.
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Certificate in Management
This programme can also be taken as part of the Certificate in Management. Enhance your leadership and business skills with a comprehensive learning journey tailored to you and create a personalised curriculum to shift your career to the next level.
Fees
The fee for the programme is £8,000.*
The programme fee covers all required study materials, programme activities, as well as refreshments and most meals. It also includes access to a well-appointed gym with a swimming pool. It does not include accommodation.
We offer a 25% discount for London Business School Alumni and for those who complete four eligible Certificate in Management or Finance programmes.
For more information on what the programme fee covers, please speak to our Client Relationship Manager. *Fees are subject to change
How to apply
Submit your application through our online application form.
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