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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ACADEMY CERTIFICATION
Joint Certification by the Haines Centre for Strategic Management
& the University of San Diego Division of Contiuiing Education
For Senior Managers, Senior Staff Professionals, Internal & External Strategic Planning Consultants & Trainers, Coaches, and Line Executives
BENEFITS
The Strategic Management Academy Certification will increase your value to your current employer and internal clients, while giving you the highly marketable competency of a Strategic Leader for the future. After successful completion of the pre-requisite workshops and the week-long Academy Certification Boot Camp, you will:
- Have an excellent grounding to Create and Implement Strategic Plans to deliver customer value and achieve the competitive advantage, using the holistic Systems Thinking Approach
- Know how to Facilitate the Installation of a Strategic Management System to run the business strategically and sustain high performance year after year
- Understand how to Design, Build and Sustain Systemic Change for the organization to achieve Business Excellence and Outstanding Results
- Understand Systems Thinking in depth, and think more strategically and innovatively as a leader
- Be able to demonstrate Breakthrough Facilitation Skills
- Be Certified to Deliver Training and Consulting in Strategic Planning and Management using the Centre's proprietary material, as an internal or external consultant, subject to licensing arrangements and the completion of a mentoring program during which you will be coached by a master level consultant from the Centre.
ACADEMY CERTIFICATION
Academy Certification consists of three parts:
A. Completion of Pre-requisite Workshops, and
B. Completion of Pre-Work, and
C. Completion of Academy Certification Boot Camp (Train-the-Trainer/Consultant)
PREREQUISITE WORKSHOPS
Prior to the Academy Certification Boot Camp, candidates must have previously completed the following 3-Day preparatory workshop:
Strategic Management, the Systems Thinking Approach
- 3-Day workshop on Integrated Strategic Thinking, Planning & Change to Deliver Customer Value
Alternatively, candidates may attend one of the combinations of workshops as follows:
(1) Reinventing Strategic Planning (2 Days), AND
Either (2a) Leading Strategic Change (2 Days)
Or (2b) Strategic & Systems Thinking (2 Days)
For dates and details of the prerequisite workshops, please click above on the respective workshop title.
PRE-WORK
Candidates will be required to complete pre-work, which will include a prescribed reading list. Purchase of reading material will be required.
ACADEMY CERTIFICATION BOOT CAMP
The Academy Certification Boot Camps are held in San Diego and Singapore. The next dates for Singapore are:
27 Sep - 01 Oct 2010 (41/2 Days)
During the 41/2 Day Academy Certification Boot Camp, you will:
- Experience Intensive Content Reinforcement: You will receive more intensive learning, reinforcement and internalization of the content as each step is revisited from a much deeper level - the tacit knowledge that is Key to Success.
- Acquire Extensive "How To" Knowledge: You will spend much more time on the "how to" sequences, details and nuances in addition to the "what" of the workshop contents.
- Demonstrate Mastery: You will have opportunities to conduct and critique practice facilitation sessions and demonstrate your expertise, while receiving practical feedback on your skills from the Haines Centre Master Level Consultants.
- Enhance Your Facilitation Skills: Regardless of your facilitation expertise, this immersion will take you to a new level.
ACADEMY CERTIFICATION BOOT CAMP CONTENTS
- Specific in-depth and intensive treatment of mastery topics
- Learning Theory
- Practicing and Demonstrating Strategic Management Mastery
- Alternate Steps and Processes
- Personal Feedback and Growth
- Facilitating Difficult Issues and Conflict Areas
- Lecturettes on all Key Concepts
- Lists of Anticipated Big Process Issues
- Full Immersion
Candidates will be immersed in the following areas, where they will conduct & critique facilitation sessions, and demonstrate mastery:
1. The ABCs of Strategic Thinking, uses and applications
2. Strategic Thinking Questions & Principles - 12 Characteristics
3. Executive Briefing - Strategic Planning Options
4. Plan-to-Plan/Four Tasks/ Parallel Involvement Process
5. Future Environment Scan
6. Ideal Future Vision: Vision / Mission
7. Positioning / Rallying Cry
8. Ideal Future Vision: Values / Culture Change
9. Key Success Measures
10. Current State Assessment
11. Strategy Development and Strategic Action Items
12. Cascade of Planning
13. Executive Briefing: Change / Iceberg Theory of Change
14. Plan-to-Implement/Four Tasks/Organizational Capacity
15. Players of Change
16. Rollercoaster of Change
17. Three-Year Business Planning
18. Strategic HR Planning
19. Six Natural Levels of Leadership Competencies
20. Annual Strategic Review & Update
Optional:
21. Project Management
22. Achieving Leadership Excellence
23. Cascade of Change / Culture Change
ACADEMY CERTIFICATION BOOT CAMP FACILITATORS
All facilitators of the Centre's certification programs are carefully selected master consultants with outstanding track records. They are all members of the Centre's Board of Examiners and approved adjunct instructors of the University of San Diego's Division for Continuing Education. The facilitators for the upcoming boot camps are:
- Stephen Lin, Regional Managing Partner - Asia
- Allan Bandt, Regional Managing Partner - Australia / New Zealand
Please note that the Haines Centre for Strategic Management reserves the right to substitute any of the facilitators with other facilitators from our Board of Examiners, approved by the University of San Diego Division of Continuing Education, without prior notice.
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