Course Outline

Self, Other and Social Contexts

• Develop an integrative action plan regarding your Learning style that expands your capability and improves your application of a total learning approach
• Critically evaluate other style approaches, integrating personality and type models - Develop arguments and approaches for reframing organisational realities as currently experienced
• Benchmark global self-management approaches.
• Problem Solving, Creative Thinking and Decision Making
• Convert problem solving basics into creative solution finding models for your department
• Benchmark global creative thinking processes
• Develop arguments for the integration of your own problem solving approaches within your organisation
• Lead a team in using creative thinking and problem solving models to solve real functional and organisational problems.

Managing the Systems Way

• Conceptualise and explain the essential components of a system and key attributes with respect to its behaviour
• Demonstrate your own understanding of systems through an ability to select appropriate models and develop a system’s model for your organisation
• Interpret the impact of interventions, like new innovations, in the context of understanding the impact on different parts of the system and the system as a whole
• Use a systems perspective in analysing problems and failures
• Understand the basic constructs of chaos theory and their applicability in the work environment.

Management of Innovation

• Demonstrate your own understanding of the Management of Innovation and explain the potential thereof on your organisation
• Conceptualise and explain innovation as a key business process
• Access innovation barriers and enablers and develop strategies to overcome and/or enhance these in your organisation
• Develop and describe a strategy to implement and embed an end-to-end innovation process in your organisation
• Design a plan to develop an innovation culture and capture and drive creativity in your organisation
• Explain the role of tools and technologies such as Information and Communications Technologies in driving and supporting innovation.

Management of Technology

• Appreciate the impact of technology on business, society and the processes of change and how it can be best integrated in the pursuit of commercial success
• Assess the technological competence of the business, its competitors and best practice exemplars in relation to both the context of the people and hardware involved
• Identify technology needs in the context of the key business drivers and the means to access such technology through an understanding of the research and development process
• Appreciate the benefits and principles of implementation of multifunctional organisation and team working in the development and integration of technological change
• Appreciate the tools and techniques necessary to identify, assess and deliver technological change at an acceptable risk.

Management of People

• Understand key issues in the behaviour of people in a work situation
• Consider various options for designing appropriate organisational structures
• Be aware of the people dynamics surrounding specific organisational architecture
• Understand the individual behavioural requirements for high performing structures and teams
• Integrate organisational wellness strategies operationally
• Distinguish between effective transformational leadership and transactional management roles.

Management and Leadership Competence

• Evaluate management and leadership competence
• Design a management and leadership model

Visual Intelligence

• Examine a business or operation from a financial perspective, reading, analysing and interpreting the key financial statements
• Differentiate between cost, profit and cash
• Understand and differentiate capital and operating budget processes, compiling and controlling both
• Analyse and develop key financial indicators for managing organisational performance
• Use financial processes in management decision making
• Write critical financial reviews of your operation.

Implementation Management

• Demonstrate your understanding of both content and process models of project management
• Integrate project management approaches within your function or operation Lead and develop project teams within the workplace
• Apply appropriate project management techniques in other areas of workplace implementation
• Have a working knowledge of project management tools and software.

Business Management, Joint Ventures and Partnerships

• Appreciate the business life cycle.
• Understand the business planning cycle including strategy formulation and implementation
• Be exposed to various joint ventures and partnership models.

Reverse Engineering the Future

• Understand the nature and content of business
• Strategy and the strategic planning and management process
• Identify and assess the external and internal factors that affect a business
• Review and understand how to recognise competitive practices and develop sources and drivers of competitive advantage
• Propose and design a strategy from a “blue ocean” visionary perspective.

Transformational Leadership

• Describe the potential impact of transformational leadership in an organisation, focusing on both the human experience of transformation and meeting business imperatives
• Explain the concept of self as it applies to leadership, and perform an analysis of how you operate at the personal, interpersonal, managerial and organisational level
• Analyse leadership styles across five selected leaders in the world at large, as well as five leaders who are encountered in local and international immersion experiences
• Create a process for leading transformation within his or her organisational domain, & by doing an analysis of enablers & challenges.