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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Strategic Leadership and Transformational Change

SMP801 · Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Potential — Week 11 of 16

CourseSMP801
Week11 of 16
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This week’s topics

Strategic Leadership and Transformational Change

  1. Leadership styles in strategic realignment
  2. Balogun and Hope Hailey's change kaleidoscope
  3. Contextual and cultural barriers
  4. Leading strategic transformation
  5. How can you create impact when leading through transformational change?
  6. ACCA P3 - 25 Strategic action and the change kaleidoscope
  7. Strategic Change Cultue and Leadership Chap 11

What you will be able to do

  • 5.1 Identify and assess different leadership styles as related to strategy change.
  • 5.2 Evaluate how organisational context affects strategic change.
  • 5.3 Evaluate how leadership influences strategic change.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: identify and assess different leadership styles as related to strategy change.

Study materials

Videos

  • How can you create impact when leading through transformational change? · YouTube · Saïd Business School, University of Oxford · 58 min · for registered students
  • ACCA P3 - 25 Strategic action and the change kaleidoscope · YouTube · The ExP Group · 9 min · for registered students
  • Strategic Change Cultue and Leadership Chap 11 · YouTube · Michael Nugent · 30 min · for registered students
  • Making transformational change work · YouTube · The King's Fund · 7 min · for registered students
  • Durka Dougall: Transformational change in health and care · YouTube · The King's Fund · 5 min · for registered students
  • Gus O'Donnell: transformational change is key · YouTube · Nuffield Trust · 7 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Leading Large Scale Change: a practical guide (NHS England, 2018) · PDF · Other, guidance; 123 pages · for registered students
  • MIT OpenCourseWare 15.322 Leading Organizations II (Fall 2003) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
  • Mastering Strategic Management, ch. 2: Leading Strategically · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 37–70 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Macro-Environmental Analysis
  • Week 2: Industry Structure and Competitive Dynamics
  • Week 3: Internal Strategic Architecture and Capabilities
  • Week 4: Value Chain Architecture and Core Competencies
  • Week 5: Multi-Level Strategy and Strategic Alignment
  • Week 6: Formulating Strategic Options
  • Week 7: Strategic Evaluation and Selection
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Globalisation and International Strategic Positioning
  • Week 10: Corporate Responsibility and Shared Value
  • Week 11: Strategic Leadership and Transformational Change
  • Week 12: Applying Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Pot…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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