Specific Competency Development
Members of the middle leadership team shoulder the responsibility of executing business strategy, leading organizations with confidence during change and inspiring stakeholders continuously. In most organizations, the mid-managers transition to senior leadership with the existing functional expertise, but the new responsibilities demand them to hold a macro view of the organization and its operating environment.
We understand the complexities and challenges of the middle-level leadership role. Our competency framework-based leadership development program/workshop is researched and developed through experience and insights over years of work across client industries.
In our competency development training programs, we customize global content to the local context that helps organizations to equip their middle-level leaders with high performing leadership behaviours required to achieve business impact.
Managing Change
Effective managers in the role of managing business and people processes often needed not only to manage change but lead change as well. They need to influence large workgroups for high-quality and schedule-adhered action deliveries. Influencing others’ thinking positively to take up tasks happily, managing emotions, inspiring others and delivering on time is the leadership act of leading change. Middle management leaders are expected to initiate leading others through change so as to fast-track the organizational change initiative in the fast-changing external business environment. The above conclusively points to the importance of change management training within the umbrella of middle manager training and the ability of the middle manager to not only manage change but also lead change.
Through this leadership development training program, GrowthSqapes enables organizations to fast-track the development of leadership capability to lead change thereby driving leadership and organisation effectiveness.
Objectives
- Identifying, acknowledging and relating to forces of change internal and external to the organization.
- Identify the levels and location of change to intervene with confidence-building actions for mass appreciation.
- Develop hope, optimism, resilience and personal efficacy at self-level to help, coach, guide and support people resistant to change.
- Develop the ability to communicate radical change in large groups.
Who should Attend?
This change management training is for Leaders, Strategic Business Unit Heads (SBU Heads), Managers, Process Owners, Plant Managers, Line Supervisors.
Key learning for Participants
- Role awareness and effectiveness in the context of leading change and managing change.
- Know how people react to change with their defences and insecurities.
- Learn the skills at self-level to understand, adapt and lead the change to envision and forecast the business future.
- Understand the models and process to enable the change and change management tools.
Business impact for the Organisation
- Development of organization-wide leadership competencies to lead change.
- Gain higher levels of readiness in managing either sudden or planned change.
- Keep the organization agile and sustainable through leadership training.
- Improved employee morale and motivation.
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Strategic Thinking
Today, with the emergence of increasing complexity in the business environment, disruption, rapid pace of change and ever increasing competition, in order to enable the organisation to survive and prosper in a global market place, business leaders have to not only create the right strategy, but also ensure seamless execution for the achievement of business results. Towards the same middle managers and middle level leaders need to develop and sharpen their strategic thinking abilities.
Based on our competency framework, GrowthSqapes’ leadership development program pertaining to having a strategic mindset to enable strategic thinking guides the middle- level leaders to develop the critical competence of creation and execution of various strategies in an organization focussed on growth mindset.
Objectives
- To develop the importance of strategy creation in a middle-level leadership role.
- Establish the linkage between organisation’s vision and strategic initiatives in the middle managers.
- Encourage the application the principles of strategic thinking to the departments/functions.
- Promote skills to create business strategy and monitor its execution.
Who should attend?
Business Leaders, middle managers and middle-level executives at the corporate, business, or functional level in an organization.
Key learning for participants
- Develop strategic thinking abilities to balance core business and new initiatives.
- Understand and use analytical tools to identify and evaluate a business’s strategy and its position in the industry.
- Design winning strategies that align with organization culture and sustain competitive advantage.
- Learn to essential components of strategy creation and strategy execution.
Business impact for Organization
- Build the strategic abilities of the middle- level leadership team.
- Enhance ability to capitalize on the market opportunities by leveraging organizational strengths.
- Improve the implementation of organizational strategies.
- Create competitive advantage through application of strategic thinking and a strategic mindset.
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Design Thinking
In today’s VUCA and fast-paced business environment, innovation is key to staying competitive. Design Thinking comes to help by offering a powerful methodology for business leaders to develop products, services, and processes that create business impact. This is because Design Thinking has a human-centred core which encourages organizations to focus on the people they’re creating for, which leads to better products, services, and processes. By focusing on human needs, Design Thinking ensures that solutions are not only technologically feasible and economically viable but also deeply relevant to the people they are meant for.
Growthsqapes solution on Design Thinking is an experiential-learning laboratory to develop business leaders to think like designers to transform the way they develop products, deliver services, lead processes—and formulate strategies. We pull together what’s desirable from a human point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable. Our Design Thinking program also allows those who aren’t trained as designers to use creative techniques, methods, and mindsets to address a vast range of challenges.
Objectives
- Foster Critical Thinking and creative problem-solving skills in leaders
- Cultivate Empathy and User-Centricity that encourages empathy and collaboration
- Develop Iterative and Interdisciplinary Thinking that leads to a prototype-driven approach
- Enhance Communication and Presentation Skills by fostering a Mindset of Continuous Learning.
Who should attend?
- Designers & Developers.
- Business Analysts.
- C-level executives.
- Product management team members.
- Sales, customer services leaders.
- Business managers
Key learning for participants
- Understand design thinking as a human-centred process focusing on customers and their needs
- Learn how design thinking leads to problem solving, and value creation.
- Learn the three main overlapping phases: inspiration, ideation, and implementation.
- Learn to observe and convert observation data to valuable insights.
Business impact for organization
- Increased customer satisfaction by deeper understanding of customer needs
- Revenue growth driven by agile creativity and innovation
- Competitive advantage and differentiation through cost reduction and profitability
- Process improvement through collaborative approach
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