The Change Leadership Program

In this first module, you will focus on SCL Ecosystems in terms of Competitive Advantage and Value Creation, exploring dynamics that contribute to a company’s competitive advantage. Content is designed to help you meet the challenges of 21st Century SCL eco-systems.

This module helps you explore Supply Chain Logistics as a business enabler, revenue driver and competitive differentiator, starting with the two key factors in competitive advantage – cost and differentiation. It helps you build a strategic thinking mindset focused on market differentiation, the demand for operational efficiencies and global competitiveness.

This module is delivered as a series of video lectures, and key topics include:

• Strategic POV: Competitive Advantage
• Market Dynamics
• E-Commerce and e-Supply Chain Logistics
• Disruption: Amazon Effect
• Perspectives: strategic, customer-based, market and trade-off

Applying your own experiences to the learning, you will build a Supply Chain Strategies portfolio using the workbook provided.

The second module steps up the Supply Chain Leadership challenge, with a focus on SCL Ecosystems on being organizationally responsible and accepting 21st century Leadership issues.

The challenge is for Supply Chain Logistics professionals to rethink everything. With the emerging “brave new world” of Big Data, this is even more critical. Value is based on knowledge exchange along complex highly interconnected global webs. The shift is immediate and far reaching: from transactions as the primary business goal to creating knowledge-sharing networks as the primary business goal. The challenge is to develop contextual intelligence shared across Supply Chain Logistics Ecosystems, as a strategic decision model, and competitive advantage is the ability to navigate complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity.

This module is continued as a series of video lectures, with a focus on:

• Business Engagement Architecture
• Dynamics of Responsible Supply Chain Logistics: Flow, Capability, Discipline
• Circular Economy: Reverse Logistics
• Market Dynamics: Disruptive Innovation
• Disrupting SCL: Big Data
• Capacity to Lead
• Leadership Decision Tools

The session is a peer-to-peer experience, where you will be a part of a leadership cohort: share ideas, problems, solutions, and work with your peers to acquire new perspectives. This peer-to-peer learning is an important and invaluable component, as is collaboration with colleagues and peers on change issues.

This facilitated group-based session comprises a blend of practical activities, teaching sessions, case studies, and an online assessment with feedback.

CHANGE ENABLEMENT: as Change Leaders, we need to behave, lead and enable. In this module, we will explore each of these in terms of

• You and Your Behavior: assertiveness, motivations, social skills, conflict,
• You and Your Leadership: conflict resolution, shared social skills, ethics, persuasion,
• You and Your Change Tools: stakeholder mapping, change mapping, change strategies and planning, change momentum.

During these four days, you will be in session through the day working with a team of your peers on a change project that will help you create your own framework for a change project, including building a stakeholder map, creating a change map, and understanding your behaviours and motivations, and identifying inefficacies.

Key topics include: 

BEHAVIOUR

• Assertive Behavior – diagnosing assertive behavior to ensure you obtain your objectives and understand how to manage others
• Motivations – understanding your key motivations and how they impact your ability to influence others
• Your Social skills and Inefficacies – learning how to deploy your skills and how your inefficacies create “ouch” points in your interactions
• Conflict – understanding how you and others change in conflict situations, how that impacts your effectiveness and how you can adapt your approach

LEADERSHIP

• Conflict Resolution – creating and applying a conflict resolution strategy to enhance your effectiveness
• Shared Social Skills and Inefficacies – creating a shared understanding of specific areas of social skills and areas requiring focus and attention
• Project Ethics – applying an ethical framework to change projects and reviewing dilemmas of enforcing change at work
• Persuasion – creating persuasive interactions which effectively take people with you

ENABLING

• Stakeholder Mapping – categorizing, assessing and aligning stakeholders to deliver change
• Change Mapping – understanding key elements of a practical change map so change is appropriately enabled
• Creating Strategies and Plans – building appropriate and time effective strategies and plans to enable change
• Change Momentum – building momentum to deliver change, understanding key elements of a practical change map so change is appropriately enabled