INTRODUCTION
Too often company executives and professionals spend most of their time fixing day-to-day problems. They react to problems, rather than focusing on what they would like the company to be and then on making it happen. This program focuses on changing the way an HR professional think from reacting (responding to day-to-day problems, fixing and repairing) to developing plans for what we want to have happen and then implementing the plans.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
- Developing strategic perspective for the HR team.
- Determining the goals of the participant and his/her company and forming a guide of steps for such decisions
- Mastering the skills that are required to becoming a strategic thinker
- Identifying the principles and mechanisms that drive successful implementation
- Being a creative team member
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Managers
- Executives
- HR Professionals
- Supervisors
PROGRAM OUTLINE
- Strategic thinking and making things happen
- The essence of strategy – core concept and definition of terms
- The role of strategic thinking in HR
- What an effective strategic plan looks like
- How we think
- Management skills required to be in HR professional
- Analytical and Creative thinking Understanding the context
- Strategic and operational goals – the significance and difference
- HR alignment with the strategic vision of the company
- Focusing on log-term results
- Building a strategy
- SWOT analysis and the strategy matrix
- Strategic choice – how to make strategy selection decisions
- Minimizing risk and uncertainty
- Key Performance Indicators and performance measurement at the strategic level
- The significance of “Dynamic Alignment” in supply chain structures
- Managing implementation – effective execution of strategy
- Evoking innovative ideas
- HR’s involvement in the company’s decision-making process
- Challenging issues for all HR Professionals
- Building the sustainable competitive advantage
- Identifying and choose right areas to invest in
- Separating strategic thinking from daily operations
- Running a brainstorming session
- Dealing with feedback
