The Strategic Management Academy Certification will increase your value to your current employer and internal clients, while giving you the highly marketable competency of a Strategic Leader for the future. After successful completion of the pre-requisite workshops and the week-long Academy Certification Boot Camp, you will:
Have an excellent grounding to Create and Implement Strategic Plans to deliver customer value and achieve the competitive advantage, using the holistic Systems Thinking Approach
Know how to Facilitate the Installation of a Strategic Management System to run the business strategically and sustain high performance year after year
Understand how to Design, Build and Sustain Systemic Change for the organization to achieve Business Excellence and Outstanding Results
Understand Systems Thinking in depth, and think more strategically and innovatively as a leader
Be able to demonstrate Breakthrough Facilitation Skills
Be Certified to Deliver Training and Consulting in Strategic Planning and Management using the Centre’s proprietary material, as an internal or external consultant, subject to licensing arrangements and the completion of a mentoring program during which you will be coached by a master level consultant from the Centre.
ACADEMY CERTIFICATION
Academy Certification consists of three parts: A. Completion of Pre-requisite Workshops, and B. Completion of Pre-Work, and C. Completion of Academy Certification Boot Camp (Train-the-Trainer)
PREREQUISITE WORKSHOPS
Prior to the Academy Certification Boot Camp, candidates must have previously completed the following workshops:
This will be held immediately prior to the Academy Certification Boot Camp in Singapore.
For dates and details of the prerequisite workshops, please click above on the respective workshop title.
PRE-WORK
Candidates will be required to complete pre-work, which will include a prescribed reading list. Purchase of reading material will be required.
ACADEMY CERTIFICATION BOOT CAMP
The Academy Certification Boot Camps are held annually in San Diego and Singapore. The next dates for Singapore are:
12 - 16 Apr 2010 (4½ Days) – SINGAPORE
During the 4 ½ Day Academy Certification Boot Camp, you will:
Experience Intensive Content Reinforcement: You will receive more intensive learning, reinforcement and internalization of the content as each step is revisited from a much deeper level – the tacit knowledge that is Key to Success.
Acquire Extensive “How To” Knowledge: You will spend much more time on the “how to” sequences, details and nuances in addition to the “what” of the workshop contents.
Demonstrate Mastery: You will have opportunities to conduct and critique practice facilitation sessions and demonstrate your expertise, while receiving practical feedback on your skills from the Haines Centre Master Level Consultants.
Enhance Your Facilitation Skills: Regardless of your facilitation expertise, this immersion will take you to a new level.
ACADEMY CERTIFICATION BOOT CAMP CONTENTS
Specific in-depth and intensive treatment of mastery topics
Learning Theory
Practicing and Demonstrating Strategic Management Mastery
Alternate Steps and Processes
Personal Feedback and Growth
Facilitating Difficult Issues and Conflict Areas
Lecturettes on all Key Concepts
Lists of Anticipated Big Process Issues
Full Immersion
Candidates will be immersed in the following areas, where they will conduct & critique facilitation sessions, and demonstrate mastery: 1. The ABCs of Strategic Thinking, uses and applications 2. Strategic Thinking Questions & Principles – 12 Characteristics 3. Executive Briefing – Strategic Planning Options 4. Plan-to-Plan/Four Tasks/ Parallel Involvement Process 5. Future Environment Scan 6. Ideal Future Vision: Vision / Mission 7. Positioning / Rallying Cry 8. Ideal Future Vision: Values / Culture Change 9. Key Success Measures 10. Current State Assessment 11. Strategy Development and Strategic Action Items 12. Cascade of Planning 13. Executive Briefing: Change / Iceberg Theory of Change 14. Plan-to-Implement/Four Tasks/Organizational Capacity 15. Players of Change 16. Rollercoaster of Change 17. Three-Year Business Planning 18. Strategic HR Planning 19. Six Natural Levels of Leadership Competencies 20. Annual Strategic Review & Update Optional: 21. Project Management 22. Achieving Leadership Excellence 23. Cascade of Change / Culture Change
ACADEMY CERTIFICATION BOOT CAMP FACILITATORS
All facilitators of the Centre’s certification programs are carefully selected master consultants with outstanding track records. They are all members of the Centre’s Board of Examiners and approved adjunct instructors of the University of San Diego’s Division for Continuing Education. The facilitators for the upcoming boot camps are:
Joint-Lead Facilitator
Stephen Lin is the Asian Partner of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management®, and works with organizations in Singapore and the region, to improve long term performance by developing their strategic management and innovation capabilities through training, coaching and facilitation. He is Haines Centre for Strategic Management® master facilitator in Asia for training and consultancy using the Centre’s proprietary models in strategic thinking, strategic planning, change management, leadership, and innovation.
Stephen is a former government scholar, and has over 23 years of senior management experience in private and public organizations, both as an internal executive as well as an external consultant. As an internal executive, he has led strategic capability acquisition and development efforts and been a key member of strategic and scenario planning teams. As an external consultant, he is in demand for in-company training as well as facilitation of planning efforts. He also regularly leads public workshops/seminars on key strategic management topics and has conducted these workshops in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, China and the USA.
Stephen has facilitated numerous “live” strategic planning efforts and in-company senior management development programs, for a wide range of organizations including multi- national companies, small-medium enterprises and government agencies. His in-house clients have included Ministry of Education, National Community Leadership Institute, INTEL Microelectronics Malaysia, See Hoy Chan Group Malaysia, INTEL Technology Malaysia, Singapore Productivity Association, Association of Muslim Professionals, Singapore Sports Council, Housing and Development Board, Halliburton, Raffles Institution (JC), Institute of Technical Education, National Environment Agency, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, National Institute of Education, Hitachi Asia Group of Companies, Singapore Technologies, Building and Construction Authority, II-VI Asia, Social Service Training Institute, Singapore Telecommunications, National University of Singapore. among others. Stephen has also trained hundreds of managers in public workshops and seminars, with consistently excellent evaluations by the participants.
Allan Bandt is the Centre’s Regional Managing Partner for Australia and New Zealand since 1990. He is also the director of Bandt Gatter and Associates, a Perth-based Human Resource Consultancy. He is a past president of the Australian Human Resources Institute (WA), a past National Director of the Australian Human Resources Institute and Chair of the latter’s Strategic Planning Committee. Allan has over 30 years of experience in strategic management, as an internal executive as well as an external consultant, and has led major long-term and strategic consulting assignments from Sydney to Adelaide to Perth.
Allan is co-author of “Successful Strategic Human Resource Planning” which is sold and utilized worldwide. He has considerable consulting and training experience in Human Resources and Strategic Management, and has worked in Australia and overseas with government and enterprises to successfully develop and implement their strategic plans and strategic HR plans. His clients have included, among others, the City of South Perth, Cancer Foundation of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, University of Western Australia, Ballarat Univeristy (NSW), Department of Agriculture, Department of Corporate Information Services (Northern Territory), Health Department of Western Australia, Department of Justice, WA Police Department, Family Court of Australia, Department of Navy, Monadelphous Group, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Association of HR Professionals (Sri Lanka), etc.
Allan has conducted strategic planning and strategic HR planning workshops in the USA, Australia, Singapore, Canada, Mauritius, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. He consistently receives outstanding appraisals from workshop participants and consulting clients on his vast knowledge, expertise and professionalism.
Please Note: The Haines Centre for Strategic Management reserves the right to substitute any of the facilitators with other facilitators from our Board of Examiners without prior notice.