8-Point Star: NEW!MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP

Job Of General Manager (JOGM)

What It Takes To Be An Effective General Manager

 

In this fast-changing and competitive 21st Century business environment, as a general manager, your job is not only to sustain your organisational profitability and growth but to extend it beyond survival. Do you have what it takes to be THAT Senior Manager or General Manager who will one day take on higher responsibilities? What are your strategic managerial and leadership challenges? How do you create sustainable values for your business key stakeholders?  These are two simple but yet critical questions which you need to ponder on and answer.

 

This workshop is specially designed for enhancing your strategic managerial and leadership skills in creating and delivering values for your key stakeholders, namely investors, customers and employees. It is an action-oriented workshop, focusing on producing results that can be measured and integrated into your business strategy, corporate culture and action plan. It encompasses the strategic business framework, including an arsenal of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to enable you to deliver desired results effectively and consistently.

 

Objectives

 

Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to learn and understand:

  • Your personal traits and preferences as a general manager/leader better for self-improvement.
  • The essential fundamentals of financial management.
  • How to identify, develop and manage organisational talents.
  • How to position and optimise existing customer relationships to increase profits.
  • How to create Break-Out Strategies for profitable growth.
  • How to turn Break-Out Strategy into actions.
  • How to plan strategic initiatives to achieve desired results.

 

Who Should Attend

 

  • General Managers
  • Deputy General Managers
  • Senior Managers
  • Chief Operating Officers
  • Divisional Managers

 

Workshop Outline

 

Day 1

·          Personal Mastery & Development

Good management starts with realising and understanding your personal strengths and opportunities for improvement. This session helps identify your own personal traits and preferences as a senior manager/leader for self-improvement.

 

Emphasis is on:

o         Identifying personal traits and preferences

o         Understanding personal strengths and opportunities for self improvement

o         Developing leadership qualities

o         Personal career development

 

 

 

 

 

·         Managership (Management Leadership)

This session explores the managerial and leadership challenges you face, and helps you gain management insights on leading a high performing team and instill a high performing culture that can make a real difference to your organisation.

 

Emphasis is on:

o         Understanding what makes a good manager and leader

o         Learning management insight, disciplines and practices to build a high performing team

o         Developing leadership qualities through practice of managership

 

Day 2

·       Financial Management

Financial analytical and decision-making skills are important towards making an impact on your organisation’s profitability. This session focuses on analysing financial information for decision-making and improving the financial performance of your organisation.

 

Emphasis is on:

o         Identifying the key components of financial reports

o         Analysing and understanding financial statements to improve business performance

o         Ratio analysis – financial analysis for business decisions

o         Working capital management – maximising and managing your current assets

 

Day 3

·          Talent Identification, Development and Management

Human capital is an essential asset that an organisation can’t live without. This session focuses on identifying, analysing, managing and retaining your organisation’s pool of talents.

 

Emphasis is on:

o         Understanding the need for a spectrum of talents within organisations

o         Understanding the importance of an integrated talent management~succession planning (TM~SP) system within organisations

o         Using different approaches to manage your talents

o         Implementing talent management and retention strategies

 

Day 4

·          Strategic Customer Care

Excellent customer service is the ultimate competitive advantage for any business. This session highlights how you can develop and implement a road map for building excellent customer care and sustaining a service culture in your organisation.

 

Emphasis is on:

o   Evaluating options for optimising your intangible assets

o   Identifying what your customers really expect from your services

o   Examining a detailed road map to apply within your organisations

Day 5 and Day 6

·          Winning With BOS (Break-Out Strategy)—Moving Beyond “Blue Ocean”

With supply exceeding demand in most industries, competing for a share of contracting markets, while necessary, will not be sufficient to sustain high performance. You need to venture beyond the blue ocean of new market space. Above all, you need to create a well-conceived Break-Out Strategy (BOS).

                

Winning Without Bloodshed

Emphasis is on:

o         Understanding “red terrain” versus “green field” strategic thinking

o         Enabling you to see your business in a broader context in an attempt to create your Break-Out Strategy

o         How to formulate Break-Out Strategy to differentiate your business

o         How to align your Break-Out Strategy with your business model

 

Strategic Execution

Emphasis is on:

o        Translating Break-Out Strategy into actions by using Balanced Scorecard

o        Planning strategic initiatives to achieve desired results

 

Panel of Training Facilitators

 

·          Dr Wilson Tay, MMIM, MIM-CPT

DMgt(Dist) IMC Southern Cross University, MBus Curtin University of Technology, FCPA, FCIS, FCIM, CA(Aust), CFP(USA), CIMCA(UK)

 

·          Dr Lai Chong Teng, MMIM, MIM-CPT

DBA (IMC, UK),

M Eng. (University of Mac Master, Canada),

BSc (Mech) (Strathclyde University, Scotland), 

Diploma (Mech Eng) (Technical College, M’sia

Associate Consultant (MIM),

MIM SME Development Programme Director,

MIM JOGM Programme Director

 

·          Vincent Loh, MMIM, MIM-CPT

FCA (Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants, UK)

 

·          Dr Chin Yook Kong, MMIM, MIM-CPT

Dip. Electrical Engineering (UTM), MEd (Training & Development) University of Sheffield,

Ph.D (Extension Education) UPM

Associate Consultant (MIM), MIM-CPM Programme Director

 

·          Evelyn Samuel, MMIM, MIM-CPT

Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management, Marketing Applications Systems, Marketing in the New Economy (PHW Graduate Business School, Berne, Switzerland)

 


Administrative Details

 

Fees:

MIM Member: RM5,200

Non-Member: RM6,000

 

Assessment tools and course materials are given to each participant at the workshop.

 

Workshop fee does not include cost of hotel accommodation.

 

This is a 5˝-day residential programme with workshops in the evenings as well.

 

Group Discount is not applicable for this programme.

 

Duration:

5˝ days

 

Time:

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 p.m.

 

Venue:

Hotel

 

Dates:

·          10-15 November 2008

PSMB Scheme:

  • SBL

 

CPD Hours:

  • 44

 

Recommended follow-on programmes:

 

·          Change Management – Winnning Organisational Change

·          Finance For Non-Finance Managers

·          Making Strategy Work – The Balanced Scorecard Way

·          Talent Management For High Performance Organisations

·          Winning With Break-Out Strategy (BOS): Moving Beyond Blue Ocean

 

 

 

 

Methodology:

 

This workshop incorporates the use of participative and interactive facilitation techniques, personal reflection exercises, group discussions and presentations to enhance experiential learning and subsequent application of the learning.