Elevate Your Future Through Strategic Leadership
On any given day, managers make dozens if not hundreds of decisions, both large and small: How many units are getting out the door? How well are employees performing? Are there supply chain issues or problems recruiting new hires? Is distribution functioning smoothly?
While some leaders spend their days immersed in these day-to-day, short-term operational issues, strategic leaders focus on the big picture - where the organization is going and how to best utilize talent to get there.
Strategic leadership consists of ways managers use their creative problem-solving skills and strategic vision to help team members and the organization achieve long-term goals.
According to Margaret Andrews, the instructor of Strategic Leadership at Harvard DCE’s Professional & Executive Development, “Strategic leadership is about understanding yourself and your goals,” she says. “It’s about understanding the situation, considering options, and deciding. It’s also about getting the best out of people, the best out of the situation, so that the organization does well. Leaders who lead strategically have done the inner work necessary to lead with integrity, vision, and purpose.”
Adept strategic leaders have cultivated a special skill set beyond the obvious ones, such as being trustworthy, developing a strategic plan, and delegating.
Skills centered around emotional intelligence and other durable skills are the traits that allow strategic leaders to successfully adapt to an ever-changing economic and technological climate, remaining forward-looking and able to see industry trends and directions long before others in an organization do.
If you are a leader looking for the following:
- An increased self-awareness of one’s own behavior and how it affects interactions with others
- An enhanced ability to lead up, down and around the organization effectively
- Skills to build alignment through purpose and values resulting in higher levels of teamwork, engagement and performance
- Tools and perspectives to build a high-performance culture through accountability and feedback
- An expanded network of peers to share future best practices and solve business challenges
- Practical tools to develop others and lead with confidence
Consider joining the next cohort of the program: Intentional Leadership: From Manager to Strategic Executive starting January 7, 2026. The time to invest in your future and the future success of your company is now. Space is limited to the first 20 leaders and each registrant will be interviewed to ensure fit and commitment. Questions? Contact Kathy Richmond at (585) 256-4618.