Strategic Thinking and Action

Overview

Human capital is a critical resource to driving an organisation’s success. With increased industry competitiveness and change as the only constant, there is a strong demand for innovative thinking and effective implementation to achieve strategic goals.

The main focus of this intensive 3 day programme is to expose industry practitioners to a spectrum of leadership framework and equip them with the essential skills required to set, lead and execute strategies. Leaders will build capabilities beyond their own specialist domain and stay at the forefront of thinking in a range of emerging areas. They will step into a completely new way of seeing, thinking, being and leading, therefore developing solutions with long lasting impact that will result in a continuum of desired business outcomes.

The key differentiator for this programme is the use of effective teaching methodologies such as presentations with best-practice examples, mini case studies and exercises, vision vignettes and activities to engage participants. The numbers will be capped to allow participants and presenters to share experiences and questions. While theory is the foundation of the programme, the emphasis is to provide participants a toolbox of practical examples and applications. Participants will become more skilled, effective and valued, while organisations enhance their capability on the road to success.

Who Should Attend

Middle, senior or general managers who are expected to develop or implement significant strategies to achieve organisational goals, as well as effective leaders who are moving into wider and more strategic roles in the organisation.

Programme Outline

DAY 1: LOOKING OUTSIDE THE ORGANISATION

• Strategy and the Business Environment
• Strategic Intent
• Customer and Competitor Analysis
• Strategic Positioning

DAY 2: LOOKING INSIDE THE ORGANISATION

• Strategy and Core Capability
• Strategy and Organisational Culture
• Implementing Strategy through People
• Stakeholders in the Implementation Process

DAY 3: FUTURE INNOVATION AND CHANGE

• Leaders Communicating for Forward Mutual Gain
• Negotiating and Influencing Change
• Strategic Innovation

How Will You Benefit

This comprehensive programme will enable you to:

• Develop innovative skills, techniques and thinking processes essential to achieving strategic outcomes and goals in your organisation
• Benefit from experiences of best-practice organisations
• Learn that strategic success depends on your ability to identify and maximise the thinking process as well as your ability to lead and execute
• Align your organisational culture with your business strategy
• Drive and measure performance to achieve effective strategic outcomes

Profile of Programme Leaders

Graeme Taylor
Programme Leader, Mt Eliza Executive Education
MEcon (Monash), DipEd, BCom (Melbourne)

Graeme Taylor consults in Australia and overseas on strategy, leadership and organisational culture. He crosses the boundaries between academia and industry.

Graeme is a former head of the Global Strategy Centre at Mt Eliza, Melbourne Business school where he spent more than a decade consulting, directing programmes in executive education and teaching MBA programmes. He has designed and directed management development programmes in the areas of shaping strategy, thinking strategically, strategic marketing and strategic leadership. He also designed and directed the school’s flagship Advanced Management programme over many years. In addition to being an Associate Programme Director at Melbourne Business school, he is an adjunct lecturer at the British Management College, Ashridge.

In executive education and consulting, Graeme’s experience encompasses both the public and private sectors. He has worked in Australia, Japan, the United States, China and the United Kingdom for organisations such as Dupont Asia Pacific, Fuji Xerox in Japan, Australia Post, Amcor, Bunnings, CSL, St George Bank and Sony Electronics in Asia.

Graeme is currently working on strategy development with Global Process Systems, an international B2B company that designs and builds oil and gas process plants in Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore for global companies.

In the B2C arena, he is currently working with Swisse Vitamins. Swisse is a dynamic provider of innovative health care products for the Australian market.

His consulting repertoire includes executive coaching, facilitation and the development and implementation of strategies, cultural change and strategic leadership. He works with an extensive network of associates and colleagues across a wide range of leadership and management domains.

Graeme is the co-author of the book, Practical Australian Strategy. While teaching at the University of Adelaide Graduate School of Business, he was awarded the Graduate Lecturer of the Year.

Graeme has recently participated in a Competitive Strategy programme at INSEAD Business School in France. He also attended the World Business Forum in New York.

John Trevillyan
Director, Open Programmes and Mt Eliza Campus, Mt Eliza Executive Education, Melbourne Business School
MEd (Admin) (Deakin), GradDipEd (Melbourne),
DipBusStud (Acc) (RMIT), Cert IV in Training & Assessment TAA40104

As Director of Mt Eliza, John has operational responsibility for the hotel, grounds and building facilities of the campus. In addition to this, he is also responsible for the Open Programmes portfolio, the Conferences division and the BHP Programme.

Mt Eliza’s Open Programmes portfolio provides a wide range of management and leadership programmes designed to meet the needs of individual managers from all levels and disciplines within an organisation. The portfolio is the largest in the southern hemisphere and offers 75 sessions during the calendar year.

The Conferences division offers executive retreats and the use of the campus facilities for other in- company sessions.

The BHP Billiton Foundations for Graduates programme is run in Mt Eliza, Johannesburg and Santiago. U21 Global in Singapore, partners Mt Eliza and provides online e-Learning. Approximately 700 graduates attend this programme each calendar year. With 20 years of experience at Mt Eliza, John brings with him a tremendous depth in the development, direction and facilitation of executive development programmes.

John has an outstanding knowledge of educational methodologies and approaches. He develops innovative programmes for his clients, using a range of paper-based and e-Learn technologies. He designs programmes to achieve learning and operational outcomes for all levels of management.

He has developed and directed best practices, enterprise bargaining and negotiation programmes in Australia, Europe, USA and the Asia-Pacific region for organisations including TrustPower NZ, AXA, Bunnings, Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Australian Stock Exchange. As a result of teaching in these various regions, he has developed innovative teaching techniques to match the learning styles of the different cultures. His areas of research and development include negotiating and influencing, learning technologies and performance management.

John is Programme Director for the popular Senior Managers Programme. He is also instrumental in the design and delivery of many customised programmes, especially those that focus on performance outcomes. John is currently the lead Programme Director for AXA.

John holds a Master of Education from Deakin University, a Graduate Diploma in Education at Melbourne University, a Fellowship Diploma in Business Studies (Accounting) at RMIT and is a Fellow of the Australian Society of CPAS.

Programme Information

For enquiry, please email: marketing@sma.edu.sg