In times of potentially catastrophic crisis, emergency and business disruption organisations can be all too easily paralysed by fear and focus, naturally, on survival. At the appropriate time it is important however to turn defence into offence, and use such contexts as a catalyst for transformation, innovation and moving from survive to thrive.

The course focus is on supporting CEO’s and senior leadership teams to critically and constructively reflect upon the myriad new or accelerated challenges, threats and issues faced as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic; and to use such critical reflection to analyse and assess current, short, medium and long-term operational feasibility and viability of their organisations and business; and explore and discuss how the COVID-19 crisis presents a catalyst for transformation that assures not just survival, but the ability to thrive in the future.

An emphasis is placed on strategic, business, organisational and operational intelligence, analysis, planning; architecture and engineering strategies, frameworks, approaches, models, techniques and tools.

Using The Current Global Pandemic As A Catalyst for Organisational Transformation webinar course is designed for ‘C’ suite and senior-level strategic and operational leaders and managers across all functions who are responsible for leading, building and developing organisational, operational and business resilience, continuity, performance and transformation agendas and initiatives.

The course is suitable for both existing ‘C’ suite and senior-level personnel who wish to refresh or upskill; as well as for recently appointed positions; or potential senior-level personnel who have been identified as part of promotion and succession plans and wish to develop new skills and competencies.

There are two main course objectives.

The first is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, attributes, confidence and competencies to be able to successfully and effectively lead and conduct a complete 360 degree, strategic organisational and business engineering review; and then re-author, re-build, and re-develop the organisational cultures, frameworks, practices, capacity and capability to help assure renewed organisational resilience, sustainability, agility, excellence and competitive advantage across the value chain.

The second is to encourage leaders to critically reflect on how their response to the global pandemic crisis and the issues and challenges that they faced can be used as a catalyst for driving transformation.

By the end of this programme and course you will:

• Have enhanced strategic, tactical and operational organisation resilience knowledge, skills and competencies

• Be able to demonstrate high-impact resilience, crisis and business continuity leadership and management

• Be able to apply approaches, methodologies, models, practices and tools to successfully author, develop, drive and lead:

• Organisational, business and operational 360-degree reviews
• Organisational, business and operational restructuring and re-engineering
• Strategic and operational transformation and change
• Strategic and operational people and talent reviews
• Strategic and operational business re-planning
• Integrated business management systems
• Best practice resilience, crisis and risk management cultures

• Enhanced high -performance cultures
• Enhanced productivity and profitability

• Understand how to use organisational and business disruption, volatility and crises as a catalyst for people and talent transformation

Key topics explored include:

Professional Award

Module 1– Conducting a 360 organisational review and health check

Module 2 – Conducting a strategic value chain review and analysis

Module 3 – Transformation, innovation and change management

Module 4 – Strategic and operational business planning and analysis

Module 5 – Strategic human capital, people and talent – planning, auditing and analysis

Module 6 – Building strategic and operational resilience and sustainability

Module 6 – Understanding and using business and systems (re) engineering

Module 7 – Understanding organisational architecture, design, development and dynamics

Module 8 – Understanding and using key business solutions

Module 9 – Understanding and using key performance indicators

Module 10 – Understanding and using key strategy tools

Professional Certificate

Module 11 – Understanding and using best practice business management systems, intelligence information, data and metrics

Module 12 – Technology and digital transformation

Professional Advanced Certificate

Module 13 – RAID Model – building and leading resilient, agile, intelligent and dynamic organisations

Module 14 – The Future Organisation – advanced people, operations, performance and experience – an integrated ecosystem

You will walk away with:

• Best practice organisational, business and operational resilience and transformational leadership skills, competencies and attributes
• An enhanced understanding of how to turn disruption, volatility and crises into catalyst for organisational, operational and business transformation and change

•  The confidence, knowledge, skills to be able to author, build, develop, drive and lead high-performance:
  •  Survive to thrive mentalities and cultures
  • Resilience, crisis and risk management cultures

•  The techniques and tools to successfully and effectively:
  • Optimise organisational, operational and busines sustainability and resilience
  • Develop and enhance performance, productivity and competitive advantage
  • Help assure organisational and business continuity and success
• Specialist and transferable professional skills
• Enhanced career and promotion prospects
• Continuous professional development credits
• A personalised professional and leadership action plan, which in conjunction with the course, critical personal reflection and ongoing professional development will allow you to further develop and put into practice what you have learnt

• Access to our library of resources
• Either a professional award, a professional certificate or an advanced professional certificate

We strongly recommend that in preparation for this course, participants take the time to complete the pre-course work; both so that they reap the fullest rewards and benefits of the courses, and so that it can be tailored and personalised where possible to their individual requirements.

• Think about what your learning priorities and objectives are
• Think about a possible leadership topic, issue, challenge or objective you have a special interest in for discussion in coaching, supervision / tutorials
• Think about what real world organisational strategic, transformational and resilience objectives you have
• Think about what real world organisational and business disruption, issues and challenges you face
• Think about how you can use the current climate as a catalyst for change.

Read the suggested literature below:

• https://www.tcs.com/content/dam/tcs/pdf/perspectives/covid-19/The%20COVID19%20Era%20The%20Catalyst%20to%20Accelerate%20and%20Strengthen.pdf
• https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia/Thought-Leadership-Assets/PDF-2/Accenture-COVID-19-New-Human-Truths-That-Experiences-Need-To-Address.pdf

The investment fee encompasses:

• Face to face contact learning via webinar, online and collaborative technology
• A minimum number of whole class contact hours per days / week / month – subject to programme and course duration selected
• Micro group sessions – depending upon participant numbers and webinar / programme / course duration
• Individual / pair / micro group supervisions / coaching / personal and operational consulting and action planning – depending upon participant numbers and webinar / programme / course duration
• Core course materials – send by email and online
• Supplementary materials – send by email and online
• Complimentary materials – materials – send by email and online
• Access to documents and resources library for the webinar / programme / course duration
• Certificate