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Strategic Leadership and Executive Decision Making

Senior leaders rarely fail for lack of intelligence; they fail by deciding slowly, deciding alone, or deciding on yesterday's assumptions. The focus falls on reading the operating environment, framing choices as real trade offs, committing resources accordingly and carrying an organisation through what follows.

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What you will be able to do

  • Analyse your operating environment using scenario planning rather than single point forecasting.
  • Frame strategic choices as genuine trade offs with the cost of each option made explicit.
  • Allocate capital, people and attention in line with stated strategic priorities.
  • Recognise cognitive biases and group dynamics that quietly distort executive decisions.
  • Translate strategy into a small set of measures that the whole organisation can act on.
  • Lead the organisation through the disruption that follows any significant strategic shift.

Course outline

  1. 01Reading the operating environment
  2. 02Scenario planning and strategic assumptions
  3. 03Framing choices and surfacing trade offs
  4. 04Resource allocation as strategy in action
  5. 05Bias, groupthink and decision quality
  6. 06Cascading strategy into measurable priorities
  7. 07Leading through disruption and resistance
  8. 08Reviewing and correcting strategic course

Who should attend

Executives, general managers, divisional heads, chief operating officers and senior specialists moving into general management. It also suits owner managers of established mid sized South African businesses.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
28 Sep to 2 Oct 2026Pretoria5R18,000Closed
5 to 9 Oct 2026Nairobi5US$1,800Register
12 to 16 Oct 2026Dar es Salaam5US$1,800Register
19 to 23 Oct 2026Lusaka5US$1,800Register
26 to 30 Oct 2026Harare5US$1,800Register
2 to 6 Nov 2026Accra5US$1,800Register
9 to 13 Nov 2026Lagos5US$1,800Register
16 to 20 Nov 2026Dubai5US$1,800Register
23 to 27 Nov 2026Johannesburg5R18,000Register
30 Nov to 4 Dec 2026Cape Town5R18,000Register
7 to 11 Dec 2026Durban5R18,000Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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