Strategic Leadership, Setting the Future Vision, Preparing Administrative Plans, and Achieving them

Day One :

Introduction to Creativity:

• Creative thinking foundations.
• The importance of creativity.
• Overcoming obstacles to creativity.
• Innovative strategies.
• Administrative creativity.
• Principles of administrative creativity (SCAMPER).
• Modern approaches to administrative creativity.

Total Quality Management:

• Quality circles.

• Employee empowerment.

• Strategic management.

• Benchmarking.

• Administrative engineering.

• Balanced Scorecard (BSC).

• Six Sigma (SS).

• Practical application of administrative creativity.

Day Two:

Creative Planning and Monitoring:

• Definition and benefits of planning.

• Distinguishing between tactics and strategy.

• Steps in planning.

• SWOT analysis.

• Modern monitoring methods.

• The role of creativity in planning and monitoring.

• Problem-solving skills.

Organizational Design:

• The six elements of organization.

• Advantages and disadvantages of specialization and distinguishing between authority and power.

• Human resources in the organization.

• Organizational theory.

• Organizational relationships.

• Characteristics of effective organization.

• Types of organization.

• Organizational tools.

• Authority and responsibility.

• Sources of authority and their types.

• Controlling authority.

• Delegation as a governing element in organization.

Coordination:

• Definition and importance of coordination.

• Centralization and decentralization.

• Coordination and teamwork.

• Traditional methods of coordination problem-solving.

• Innovative methods of coordination problem-solving.

Day Three:

Advanced Scientific Trends in Foresight Studies:

• Fundamental concepts of futures studies and its relationship with strategic leadership.

• Scientific and methodological dimensions of futures studies.

• Approaches to foresight.

• Factors distinguishing between foresight methods and approaches.

• Challenges of predicting the future and how to confront them.

• Principles of building future scenarios and utilizing them in formulating various strategies.

• Practical application example of future studies.

• Case study of previous Arab experiences in the field of foresight studies.

Strategic Thinking:

• Modern trends in strategic thinking.

• The formal degree in strategic management.

• What is strategic management?

• Is strategic management a science or an art?

• Objectives of strategic management.

• Steps in strategic management (design stage, implementation stage, evaluation stage).

• Levels of strategic management.

• Application of strategic management in the practical workplace.

• Basic skills for strategic managers.

• The roles of top management in building strategic thinking.

• Characteristics of strategic decisions.

• Strategic challenges.

• Building an organizational strategic performance list.

Day Four:

Analyzing the External Environment and the Competitive Performance Matrix (CPM):

• Understanding external environment assessment.

• Framework for reviewing the external environment.

• Key environmental variables.

• Primary sources of environmental information.

• Environmental analysis and description.

• Competitive Performance Matrix (CPM).

Analyzing the Internal Environment:

• The importance of studying and evaluating the internal environment.

• Internal factors that must be studied and analyzed.

• SWOT analysis.

• Considerations for internal evaluation.

Day Five:

Competitive Position Analysis and Strategic Leadership:

• Porter's strategies.

• Cost leadership strategy.

• Differentiation and distinguishing from competitors.

• Focus strategy.

• Comparing different strategic alternatives.

• Comprehensive model of strategic alternatives.

• Shell Model.

• General Electric Matrix.

• Criteria for the success of strategic leaders in the practical workplace.

Strategy Implementation and Review:

• The importance of strategy implementation.

• Requirements for strategy implementation.

• The Macbeth Effectiveness Framework for strategy implementation.

• Balanced Scorecard (BSS) and strategy implementation.

• Steps in the strategic review process.