The Global Strategic and Operational Management Training Course

Why select this training course?

Modern-day business enterprises face two major challenges; the ability to think and plan strategically and the successful implementation of such plans by highly creative and effective operational managers. Therefore, imbuing business personnel with the skills necessary to enhance their management ability and thinking becomes crucial.

What are the strategic complexities involved in operating in a global space?

Strategy refers to the techniques used in facilitating change and attaining long-term objectives amidst uncertainties, complexities, and competitive pressures. Complexities arise from a manager’s uncertainties, challenges, and unpredictability while working in a global environment. Strategic complexities in an international environment can be understood using the PESTEL framework. These complexities are;

• Political complexity
• Economic complexity
• Social and cultural complexity
• Technological difficulties
• Environmental challenges
• Legal complexities

What are the four vs of operational management?

Operation management involves developing unique production strategies that meet the expectations of a company and fulfill its manufacturing needs. Operations management involves taking supplies, turning them over to employers, converting the materials into products, and ensuring these products meet the predetermined expectations of the company. With effective demanding planning, operational managers can attain production goals while meeting future expectations. The four vs of global operations management include volume, variety, variation, and visibility.

The Rcademy Global Strategic and Operational Management Training Course is designed to help participants learn about the latest models, skills, mechanisms, and skills used in developing and implementing global strategic and operational management. Participants will learn to deal with significant market changes, technology, and competitive and organizational structures. Focus is also given to delegation and problem-solving strategies and how to design strategies that integrate global ethos and the best practices in strategic management. This training course will transform the reputation and performance of attendees, making them stand out from their colleagues.

Who should attend?

The Rcademy Global Strategic and Operational Management Training Course is designed for professionals within the global planning and operational management industry and everyone interested in furthering their knowledge in such sectors. The following individuals should attend this course:

• Business managers are responsible for monitoring and heading employees to ensure maximum operation of services and productivity
• Strategic managers are tasked with working with the senior executive leadership in establishing the company’s vision and agenda
• Start-up founders are charged with conceiving, generating, and developing a business from ideation to completion
• Business analysts are responsible for evaluating an organization’s performance and helping to enhance its systems and processes
• Operations managers are charged with supervising operational functions at all levels of an organization
• General managers are responsible for boosting efficiency and profits while overseeing the general operations of the organization or division
• Human resources managers are responsible for managing and directing the administrative functions in an organization
• Project managers are responsible for planning and designating project resources, planning budgets, and overseeing progress
• Sustainability analysts are tasked with researching techniques to evaluate, report, and offer recommendations for business sustainability programs and projects
• Asset managers are responsible for managing, trading, and investing assets like bonds, stocks, commodities, and capitals
• Supply chain managers are responsible for each phase of a business’s supply chain ranging from raw material purchase to production
• Entrepreneurs tasked with creating and growing business through creative ideas

What are the course objectives?

The Rcademy Global Strategic and Operational Management Training Course develops participants’ knowledge and understanding of global practices in strategic and operational management. Participants will learn the following objectives:

• Learn how to set creative and realistic strategic and operational objectives and goals
• Understand the latest skills, models, and techniques employed in global operational management
• Learn how to build effective change processes that meet stakeholder expectations
• Understand how to maximize operational core competencies while executing organizational strategies
• Understand how to bridge the gap between operational and organizational objectives
• Forster a creative workplace culture for overcoming strategic challenges
• Master strategic thinking at every operational level to add value
• Recognize with clarity the necessary management functions to display from the options available
• Learn how to retain crucial conventional management functions and how to execute highly innovative techniques
• Recognize the various best practices in strategic and operational management
• Identify the latest trends in global management practices

How will this course be presented?

This training course meets attendees’ expectations while enhancing their knowledge and skills about the subject matter. Different practical techniques to ensure participants’ constant and active learning will be utilized in delivering the course. Renowned professionals and experts in the field with several years of practice and experience will teach the course. The course modules are drafted from exhaustive and careful research into the subject matter.

The Rcademy Global Strategic and Operational Management Training Course integrates practical and theoretical learning through lecture notes, case studies, real-life scenarios, and slides on the concepts. Attendees will also partake in seminar workshops, presentations, quizzes, and constant feedback on lessons taught to gauge and determine their maximum satisfaction.

What are the topics covered in this course?

Module 1: Introduction to Global Strategic and Operational Management

• Overview and Definition of strategic management and operational management
• Overview of globalization
• The components of strategic management
• Types of operational management
• The importance of strategic operations management
• Managing transition
• Recognizing new opportunities in the global business environment
• The causes of change in global financial and business structures
• The challenges of globalization
• Understanding and differentiating between comparative advantage and competitive advantage

Module 2: The Heart of Management: Directing and Delegating

• Directing and operationalizing
  – Powerful processes for directing staff
  – The directors’ essential operationalization remit
  – Utilizing goals, outcomes, behavioral metrics, and objectives
  – Converting the strategic plan into an execution plan
• Delegating and problem-solving
  – Relinquishing authority and responsibility
  – Innovative, soft-system, and rational problem-solving methodologies
  – The delegation imperative
  – Succession planning and creating new leaders
  – Choosing between alternative solutions while evaluating the political and operational perspectives of the actions

Module 3: New Techniques that Support Global Business Development

• Product and process innovation in global strategy
• The latest tools, models, and skills in global strategy development and operational management
• Collaboration and partnership as the means for facilitating global development
• The strategic importance of the agile and responsive organization
• Effective business models for an increasingly integrated environment
• Post-acquisition and post-merger management as primary challenges

Module 4: Accelerating Achievement Through Monitoring and Resourcing

• Resourcing and supporting
  – Choosing staff for their potential and talent
  – Recognizing the resources available for staff and utilizing them in building their ability
  – Assisting staff through empowerment and engagement
  – The five essential support requirements for staff
• Supervising and controlling/coordinating
  – The crucial nature of supervising and controlling
  – Deciding on key metrics
  – Creating monitoring systems and performance dashboards
  – Soft and hard processes for individual development and goal attainment

Module 5: Organisational and Human Resource Development

• The processes involved in building and managing high-performance teams
• Flexible, virtual, and extended organizational structures
• Mentoring and coaching as the new roles of senior managers
• Building the next generation of potential senior managers
• The strategic implications of the flattening organization

Module 6: Best Practices in Strategic Management

• The concept of alignment
• Creating a business model to achieve maximum outcome
• Designing an effective connection between operations and strategy
• The primary strategic priority: generating profits and sustaining profitable growth
• Strategic planning in a rapidly changing and uncertain business environment

Module 7: Defining the Essential and Unique Functions of Management

• Differentiating Management from Leadership
• The Q-OPD full-range management model
• The roles of the effective manager
• Inappropriate Metaphors of Managers
• Evaluating the vital importance of effective management through traditional and contemporary lenses
• Key management functions

Module 8: Ensuring Effective Implementation of Strategic Plans

• Establishing and overseeing an effective strategic planning team
• The framework for an effective strategic plan
• The planning processes
• Projecting inputs and outputs
• Leading the implementation of the strategic plan
• Presenting and communicating the strategy to the operations teams
• Reporting to stakeholders

Module 9: Managing Your Career as an Effective Manager

• Becoming politically adept
• Designing a personal career advancement strategy
• Planning in an ever-evolving world
• Workplace and corporate governance
• Recognizing specific career anchors
• Prioritizing and partaking in essential career advancement activities

Module 10: The Latest Trends in Global Management Practices

• The global nature of innovation
• Artificial intelligence
• Remote and flexible working environment
• Striving for gender balance
• Outside consultants
• Adopting a blended approach to management development and leadership

Module 11: The Four Core Skills of Both Leaders and Managers

• Political intelligence and emotional intelligence
• Tailored and multi-channel communication
• Building personal, organizational, and social awareness
• Powerful and targeted persuasion and influence