Strategic Implementation Toolkit: An Essential Guide for Middle Managers
- Innovation & Business Improvement
- Leadership & Management
2 Days
Who Should Attend
Middle Managers and Business Professionals tasked with strategy implementation. Minimally a Diploma is required.
We recommend that you take this 2-day course, after taking the complementary 1-day course: Middle Managers’ Role in Strategy Implementation – The Lynchpin of Success.
Overview
Discover the answer in this new two-day course, Strategic Implementation Toolkit: An Essential Guide for Middle Managers.
The middle manager's role in strategy implementation is growing in importance. With change becoming a constant in everyday business life, they need to be equipped with the right skills and knowledge to support their organization's transformation in a digital world.
And yet only one in three strategy implementations are successful. "
Mastering “Strategic Implementation Toolkit: An Essential Guide for Middle Managers” highlights the key mistakes organizations are making and shares best practices from the one in three who succeed. It dives deep into the critical role of middle managers in strategy implementation.
It also examines how they participate in the implementation and provides an in-depth framework, a canvas, tools, templates, and checklists to help them jump-start the strategy implementation journey at their organizations.
The course complements “Middle Managers’ Role in Strategy Implementation – The Lynchpin of Success,” which predominantly focuses on understanding middle managers' role in the implementation and the actions they need to take.
It’s time to reverse the cyclic high failure rate.
After all, customers notice your implementation, not your strategy.
Discover middle managers' role in delivering world-class implementation.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the 2-day module, participants will be able to:
- Deliver world-class implementation
- Identify their organization's implementation capability through the “Readiness2Implement” assessment
- Support their employees to take the right actions that drives the implementation forward
- Acquire in-depth framework, tools, templates and checklists to jump start their strategy implementation journey
- Test their own implementation capabilities via business simulation.
- Ensure follow-through by keeping employees engaged throughout the whole implementation journey
Topic/Structure
The Strategic Implementation Toolkit course focuses on setting participants up for success by providing them with the required capabilities and takes them on a journey over the two days, highlighting their role in:
- Creating Awareness - middle managers are responsible for translating the strategy to employees
- Building Excellence - supporting employees to take the right actions that drives the implementation forward
- Following Through - ensuring employees stay engaged throughout the whole implementation journey
Course Outline:
- Understand why mastery for middle managers in strategy implementation is critical for an organization’s success
- Introduction to the Three Broad Themes of strategy implementation
- Personal Assessment – Readiness2Implement
- Implementation Canvas©
- “Implementation Dynamics Model” explains the four different ways people respond to implementation
- Put into practice your implementation capabilities in the Business Simulation - the Lost Dutchman
- Apply key learnings throughout the course on your digital learning platfom
Assessment
Participants have to meet a minimum attendance rate of 75% and have to complete all assessment(s) required by the course. Only upon meeting the minimum attendance and passing the assessment will participants be issued a Certificate of Completion.
Participants who fail the assessment will be given a chance for re-assessment at a fee of SGD100.00 (excluding prevailing GST). Each participant is allowed 1 re-assessment. The re-assessment has to be taken within 7 calendar days from the end of the course date. It will be held on a weekday specified by SMU Academy and conducted during office hours. Please note that re-assessment fees are not supported by SSG Funding.
Participants who meet the minimum attendance rate but do not achieve a pass for the assessment will be issued a Certificate of Participation.
Participants are required to bring their laptop to access the course materials, class exercises and individual assessment(s).
Calculate Programme Fee
Fee Table
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PARTICIPANT PROFILE |
SELF-SPONSORED |
SME |
NON-SME |
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Singapore Citizen < 40 years old Permanent Resident LTVP+
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$654 (After SSG Funding 70%) |
$254 (After SSG Funding 70% |
$654 (After SSG Funding 70%) |
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Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old |
$254 (After SSG Funding 70% |
$254 (After SSG Funding 70% |
$254 (After SSG Funding 70% |
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International Participant |
$2,180 (No Funding) |
$2,180 (No Funding) |
$2,180 (No Funding) |
All prices include 9% GST
Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.
Self Sponsored
SkillsFuture Credit
Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.
This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.
Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).Workfare Skills Support Scheme
From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.
Company Sponsored
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)
- Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
- Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
- Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
- Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
- Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
- Trainees will be able to enjoy ETSS funding only if the company's SME's status has been approved. To verify your SME's status, please click here.
Please click here for more information on ETSS.
Absentee Payroll
Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:
AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)
Intake Information
| INTAKE 3 | TBA (9.00am - 5.00pm) | Open for Registration |
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Participants are required to take an assessment from 5.00pm – 6.00pm on Day 2.
Additional Details
Certified Professional Business Manager (CPBM)
This programme is part of Certified Professional Business Manager. Participants who successfully complete 6 courses/modules with a minimum of 15 training days, from a list of qualifying programmes (terms and conditions apply) within 5 years will receive the Certified Professional Business Manager (CPBM). For example:
Please click here for CPBM details and list of qualifying programmes.
