Organisational culture, once established, has important influences on the strategy of an organisation. Although a judiciously shaped strategy may make or break a company, the influence of the organisational culture is paramount because it may make or break the strategy. Also, managers’ strategic choices are underlined by the belief systems or culture of their organisation. The culture influences the managers, and the managers influence the culture.

Importantly, a weak organisational culture is a recipe for inefficiency, poor performance and below-par service delivery. We will look at the challenges posed by local cultural values and norms and discuss their impact on your organisational strategy, processes, and the delivery of service in your organisation.

Thus, this interactive training is designed to give individuals and departments an in-depth understanding of the complexities of creating a high-performance culture to succeed in an increasingly dynamic environment. Our overarching aim is to provide insight in and understanding of the management challenges associated with developing and fostering a high-performance work culture.

Course Content:

• Why Organisational Culture Matters
• Why a Culture Might need Changing
• Influence of Organisational Culture on Strategy
• Influence of Organisational Culture on Managerial Behaviours
• Organisational Culture: A Toolkit of Resources
• Organisational Culture, Performance and Service Delivery

Strategy: Developing Competitive Advantage

Strategy is about the critical issues in organisations, making timely decisions and leading people through difficult and often uncomfortable changes. Anticipating and responding to change with appropriate strategic choices is a major challenge of management and leadership. Effective leadership can help to bring people with you and ensure their help and support.

Strategy also involves making goal-directed decisions and actions over the long-term to achieve competitive advantage and fulfil stakeholder expectations. It focuses on the present situation, the future, and how to get there. Thus, a company’s strategy encompasses its plan for superior performance and victory in competition with rivals and competitors. Ultimately, a sound strategy should produce a competitive advantage. Thus, our training on Strategy focuses on how companies can gain and sustain competitive advantages. 

Course Content:

• Fundamentals of Strategy
• Evolution of Strategic Management
• Ingredients of a Successful Strategy
• Scope and Levels of Strategy
• Making Strategic Decisions
• Building and Maintaining Competitive Advantages

Strategic Leadership

Strategic leadership is the ability to shape or influence the decisions made within organisations over time in a bid to deliver high value.  It involves inspiring, managing, and motivating employees in an organisation. Strategic leadership goes beyond the Chief Executive or Managing Director; it encompasses the whole team heading up the organisation. Ultimately, it entails leaders identifying and delivering the purpose of the organisation. Thus, this training is crafted to help develop and improve the leadership capabilities or leaders per managing teams, departments, or their organisations more effectively. 

Course Content:

• High-performance Leadership
• Transformational Leadership
• Managing Communication and Information
• Managing Time and Resources
• Building High Performing Teams

Managing Strategic Change

Strategic change involves the proactive management of change in organisations to achieve clearly identified strategic goals. In dynamic environments, it is not a question of whether firms should change, but of where, how, and in what direction they must change. Our training on Managing Strategic Change is designed to equip and enhance the impact of individual’s (or groups of individuals) in understanding and leading change. 

Course Content:

• An overview of Strategic Change
• The need for Change and Organisational Renewal
• Revolutionary Change, Evolutionary Change or Continuous Change?
• The Process and Approaches of Managing Change
• Dealing with Resistance to Change
• The Role of Leadership during Change
• Adapting to Environmental Changes and Maximising New Opportunities
• Developing a Strategic Change Programme

Leading From the Middle

Are you a Branch or Departmental Manager looking to improve your knowledge, skills, confidence or aspiring for a senior management role? Would you like to improve your performance or gain a competitive advantage? This middle managers’ personal and professional development programme is for YOU. The programme is specifically designed to offer clarity and help improve your personal and professional effectiveness.

Course Content:

• Managing Your Career and Building Your Personal Brand
• Reviewing Your Skills Portfolio and Personal Profile Analysis
• Middle Management’s Contribution to Strategy
• Divergent and Integrative Roles of Middle Managers
• Managing Teams (Skills, Competencies and Capabilities Required)
• Managing Conflict and Team Dynamics
• Managing Communication, Information, Time, and Resources
• Values, Ethics, and Integrity Issues in the Workplace
• Building Key Relationships
• Interviewing for Your Next Role

Tailoring and Customisation

These interactive training programmes retain the flexibility to diverse organisational or cohort needs. It can be tailored and customised to suit organisational, or cohort needs upon consultation.

Price Guide

• Course fee per Delegate – N100,000 ($200)
• Course fee + CV, Cover Letter & LinkedIn Profile Optimisation – N150,000 ($300)
• Course fee for Companies (20-30 Delegates) – N2,000,000 ($4,000)

The Result You Can Expect

Our trainings are designed to provide up-to-date information and knowledge in major areas of Organisational Culture, Strategy, Leadership, and Change Management. This will assist in improving the collective capacity of individuals and departments in your organisation.

Specifically, the anticipated outcome of our trainings is a well-informed, dedicated, enthusiastic, and motivated organisational champions. These champions will be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop and foster a high-performance work culture in your organisation. This will assist in improving your organisational performance, service delivery and competitive advantage. Specifically, after this training, delegates will be able to:

• Critically appraise the strategic context of your organisation and be aware about planned responses.
• Deal confidently with the problem of cultural change in your organisation.
• Critically evaluate the problems likely to be encountered in implementing strategic and cultural change and be able to identify suitable solutions for overcoming these barriers.

Faculty

• Olufemi Awoyemi – Chairman of the Board at Proshare Nigeria
• Shola Ajani- Management Coach, Business Consultant & Trainer
• Binta Max-Gbinije (Former Head, Commercial Banking & Public Sector at Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc & Current Financial Services Executive)
• Aloy Chife, PhD – Managing Partner/CEO, Saana Capital, LLC
• Frank Nweke II – Edward Mason Fellow, Harvard University, Member Nigeria’s Federal Cabinet 2003-2007 & DG, NESG 2009-2014
• Dipo Awojide, PhD – Senior Lecturer, and Management Consultant

Selected Clients

• Vitafoam Nigeria PLC
• Goldfire Nigeria Limited
• Ledrop Nigeria Limited
• Oakwell Partners
• Budgit Foundation
• Modion Communications