Business that is dealing with a merger or acquisition, a down-size or major growth surge, or a significant change in strategy requires more from its leaders overnight. Having the right leadership skills to manage the complexity of transition and change is a major component of business success in achieving its goals. This program is designed to give capable managers the specific learning to accelerate their transition skills to better manage the business challenges.

Target Audience and Target Outcomes

This course enhances your leadership skills to effectively manage challenging organisation transitions in specific, measurable and relevant ways. Leading and managing transition requires effective leadership styles for juggling strategic and tactical outcomes, knowing what to do when and measuring your success in line with the organisation’s success.

Using a mixture of case studies, experiential learning and active application to real business transition programs, managers will be able to apply the learning immediately back in their roles on their major transition projects. The focus is on using tools and techniques which are practiced during the program.

Course Outline

Knowing how to leverage your leadership style for transition

Building on advanced emotional intelligence techniques you will undertake a solid analysis of your style and how to make it more effective in managing stakeholders, virtual teams, and functional teams. Contrasting techniques for each group are explored and practiced, with clear steps to achieve measurable outcomes. Behavioural diagnostics tools and measures are explored and ranked for applicability in your business environment.

Implementing Strategy for Transition Leaders

We cover the elements of strategy implementation and alignment; exploring the links of strategy development with techniques of strategy performance metrics. Key learning will be on how and when to apply measurement tools, including performance management, culture change diagnostics and the Balanced Scorecard. What do they capture, what do they miss.

Transition Management Methods for Managers of Change

The areas covered are: theory and practice of culture change; change management diagnostics, tool and techniques; change management roles for change sponsors, change targets and change agents. We focus on how to set up and manage a transition change program and measure its success.

Stakeholder Management in Transition Programs

The areas covered are: the theory of stakeholder management, designing stakeholder maps, applying leadership techniques to managing stakeholders, building communication programs for stakeholders and measuring success in managing stakeholders.

Duration and Pricing

Contact Us

Contact SBT3 Advanced Leadership Programs through the following:

SBT3 Website
Phone: +61 3 98698831 or complete the Enquiry Form by clicking on the link below:

Lyle Potgieter, Practice Manager
Business Transformation

We can also arrange specific programs for organisations built around your defined needs.

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