Course Outlines

Day  1 : Successful Business Management Practices and Smart Leadership

•  Modern international practices in the arts of management
•  Modern trends in management development
•  Modern technical concept of the term “management and outstanding leadership.”
• Conditions of the work environment and manifestations of internal and external relations
• Stages and steps of strategic management according to excellence models
• The role of management in the field of institutional excellence
• Flexibility in management and the ability to change effectively
• Building and promoting a culture of excellence among human resources at all levels
• information and knowledge management to support effective decision-making and build the capacity of the organization.
• Smart Management and Leadership Concept
• Smart management and leadership practices for simplifying, prioritizing, and developing ideas
• Management and leadership competencies in dealing with cultural and human differences in the work environment
• Merit of the diversity of thought, creativity, and innovation in management and smart leadership
• Discuss the impact of smart management and leadership on the development of work, stimulate determination, and achieve results.
• Enriching knowledge of the best international practices in the competencies of management and smart leadership
• Strengthen leaders with leadership skills to motivate others to positively change their performance.
• Practical cases and applications

Day  2: Smart Leadership Practices in Organizational Change Management

• Modern management and the concept of change management
•  Reasons for orientation to change management (nature of institutional change – causes and challenges)
• Types of institutional change and agents of change
• The impact of smart strategic leaders on managerial adaptation to situations of nstitutional change
• Smart strategic leadership and management of the culture of change in the organization.
• How to measure the effects of post-change on individuals, management, and organizations
• The role of smart strategic leadership and individuals during and after the change process
• Change management strategies
• Planning models for change
• The eight steps of the Kotter model
•  ADKAR Model Alteration
• Identify and design alternatives to change.
•  Stages of the change process
• Prepare the leadership team for the change strategy.
• Implementation of the change process
• Evaluate the change process.
• Reasons for resisting change and ways to deal with it (Kotter approach)
• Stages, forms, and models of resistance to change
• management model with objectives, change strategy, and continuous improvement.
• Risk aspects of institutional change
• Common mistakes in dealing with changing an existing culture
• Smart strategic leadership and keeping change in the culture of the organization
• Practical cases and applications

Day  3: The Worthiness of Smart Leadership in Building High-Performance Teams

• Indicators of the need to build teams
• Benefits of managing and building teams
• Characteristics of effective teams
• Team development stages
• The Advantages of Delegation
• Why did authorization fail?
• How to distribute jobs and roles to team members
• How team members are evaluated
• How to encourage team members
• Skill in dealing with change
• Skill in dealing with conflicts and disputes
• Communication skills of team members
• Time management skills
• Innovative and creative thinking skills
• Sources of the manager’s and leader’s strength in influencing team members
• The matrix of the types of subordinates and the sources of forces that the leader can follow to influence it
• Practical cases and applications

Day  4: Analytical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making for Smart Leadership

• Analytical thinking as a component of coordinated thinking for smart leadership
• The place of analytical thinking in decision-making models and stages of the scientific method
• Classification of methods of development of analytical thinking
• Analytical thinking and its relationship to critical thinking
• The place of analytical thinking in successive models of creative problem solving
• The place of analytical thinking in the combined models of creative problem solving
• The place of analytical thinking in decision-making models and stages of the scientific method
• fundamentals in innovation and creativity management to solve problems and make decisions.
•  Strategic thinking, which is the most important way to achieve excellence,
• Use smart leadership and creative and innovative thinking in solving problems and making decisions.

Day5 : Developing creative and innovative problem-solving and decision-making abilities

• Strategic and Innovation Development Lab
• Standards of excellence in solving problems creatively and innovatively.
• The most important ways that smart leadership encourages the creative and innovative capabilities of work teams:
• Brainstorming method
• Delphi method
• Nominal group method
• Method of morphological analysis
• The Six Hats Approach
• Practical cases and applications.