Course Outline
Meaning of vision and strategy and their interrelationship
• Knowledge and skills required – visioning, describing possible futures with clarity, creating, giving direction, specificity, providing motivation, planning, communicating and listening to different levels,
synthesizing, analyzing, empathy, decision taker, the link between vision and strategy, bringing about effective change, emotional intelligence, developing and leading high-performance teams, consistency
and reliability, delegation, dealing with conflict, gaining alignment.
• Contribution to organizational vision and strategy. Leadership and management knowledge and skills can be insufficient. Other factors that come into play include – financial situation, political uncertainty, availability of human and physical resources, and instability in the market.
• Ranking order produced from criteria leading to the determination of high, medium and lesser importance.
• Similarities, differences, and importance of knowledge and skills needed by strategic managers compared to operational managers.
- Teacher: Mai Elkorashy