Empowering Talent in the Digital Age: Strategic Management Essentials (8-days)

Empowering Talent in the Digital Age: Strategic Management Essentials (8-days)

Key details

Mode of delivery: Classroom-based

Course code: HR18B

Duration: 8 days

Fee: £6,965.00 + VAT

CPD Hours: 48

Course Overview

This course focuses on empowering individuals and shaping the future workforce. Participants will explore advanced performance management strategies, design innovative rewards systems, and address the considerations of HR in the digital age.
This course provides a structured approach to strategic planning and decision-making. Participants will learn how to analyse internal capabilities, constraints, and environmental risks, prioritise key issues, and apply systems thinking and scenario planning to address complex problems. The programme also covers breaking down high-level strategies into actionable priorities, sequencing decisions and resources effectively, and integrating ESG and sustainability considerations to ensure long-term value creation.

Agenda

Day — 1 Mastering Personal Effectiveness in the Modern Workplace

  • Personal Agility & Self-Leadership
  • Developing Emotional Intelligence
  • Time Management & Productivity in Remote Environments

Day — 2 Cultivating a High-Performing and Engaged Workforce

  • Performance Enablement
  • Employee Experience Design
  • Employee Well-being & Engagement

Day — 3 The Future of Work: Redefining Performance and Employer-Employee Relationships

  • The Evolving Social Contract of Work
  • Defining and Measuring High Performance in Remote/Hybrid
  • Future of work scenario planning.

Day — 4 Innovating HR for the Future: Trends, Strategic Vision, and Personal Impact

  • Future HR Trends & Innovations
  • Building a personal brand as a strategic HR leader
  • Building HR for the future

Day — 5 Weekly Review

  • Summary and recap of key learning objectives
  • Action Planning

Day — 6 Strategic Environment and organisational Context analysis

  • Map internal capabilities, constraints, and cultural factors affecting strategy.
  • Analyse external risks, and long-term trends.
  • Prioritise strategic issues.

Day — 7 Mental Models and Systems Thinking application

  • Apply mental models and systems thinking to frame complex problems.
  • Identify strategic assumptions, blind spots, and interdependencies.
  • Use scenario logic and structured challenge to stress-test early direction.

Day — 8 Strategic Priorities and Plan Definition development

  • Break down strategic direction into actionable priorities and initiatives.
  • Sequence decisions and resource flows to manage interdependencies.
  • Integrate ESG and sustainability into long-term value creation.

Course Review

  • Summary and recap of key learning objectives
  • Action Planning

Post-Course

  • Six (6) x hour-long Executive Coaching sessions at monthly intervals following Course Completion

Target Audience

This course is suitable for:
  • HR professionals at all levels
  • Line managers seeking to enhance their people management skills
  • Organisational development consultants

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to implement a successful strategy that enables you to:
  • Lead effectively
  • Enhance advanced leadership skills
  • Effectively manage remote employees
  • Implement advanced continuous feedback and data-driven performance strategies
  • Design employee experience
  • Identify and address the factors that drive performance and wellbeing
  • analyse the evolving social contract of work
  • Design high- performance systems
  • Create future of work scenario plans
  • Forecast and prepare for future HR trends and innovations.
  • Lead change initiatives effectively, minimising resistance and maximising buy-in.
  • Foster a culture of adaptability and resilience in the face of change.
  • Assess internal organisational dynamics—including capabilities, constraints, and culture—to inform and shape viable strategic options.
  • Identify and interpret external risks and emerging trends to anticipate future challenges and opportunities for strategic positioning.
  • Evaluate and prioritise strategic issues based on their impact, urgency, and alignment with long-term objectives.
  • Use systems thinking and mental models to understand complexity, reveal interdependencies, and avoid linear problem-solving traps.
  • Uncover and critically challenge hidden assumptions and blind spots, and map interdependencies that influence strategic outcomes.
  • Apply scenario planning and structured challenge techniques to test the robustness of strategic direction under uncertainty.
  • Translate high-level strategic goals into clear, actionable initiatives with defined priorities and success criteria.
  • Plan and sequence key decisions and resource allocations to effectively manage interdependencies across initiatives.
  • Embed ESG and sustainability considerations into strategic planning to drive long-term, responsible value creation.

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