Course sheet · 2027 catalogueSoft skills
Taking a Step Back: Big Picture and Reading the Issues
One day to step out of day-to-day management and read what is at stake around your role: market, customers, regulation, organisation, interests at play. Participants learn to place a problem within its system, identify the stakes of the people they deal with and present a subject from their scope from the angle that matters to management.
Duration1 day
Request a quoteObjectives
- Place your activity in the company's value chain and in its environment
- Analyse a situation as a system: actors, flows, interdependencies, feedback effects
- Identify each stakeholder's stakes, beyond the positions they state
- Distinguish operational, tactical and strategic topics in your scope
- Present a subject by linking it to management's priorities
Programme
Day 1 — morning
- Head down in the daily grind: what you no longer see from your post
- Reading the environment: customers, competitors, suppliers, regulation, technology, society
- Systems thinking: loops, delays, side effects of a local decision
- Exercise: system map around a recurring problem in your department
Day 1 — afternoon (workshop)
- Stakes and positions: what each actor is trying to protect or obtain
- Changing level: from the fact to the topic, from the topic to the stake for the company
- Presenting a subject to management in three minutes: context, stake, options, request
- Workshop: summary note on a real file from your scope, written for management
- Knowledge test and presentation of the notes to the group
Teaching methods
- System maps built on the participants' real problems
- Business case: a late delivery re-read from the angle of the customer, finance, production and reputation
- Presentations to a simulated management committee, with feedback from the group
- Reading industry news to draw out the implications for the company
- Groups mixing participants from different functions
Assessment and documents
Knowledge test and presentation of the summary note produced in the workshop, with a follow-up evaluation at D+1. Numbered training certificate, verifiable online, for each participant; training report handed to the company.
Bilingual materials for every participant; each classroom course comes with its digital twin on OmniLearn.
Frequently asked questions
Who is this training designed for?
Managers and experts moving from an operational role to a broader one: site manager, newly promoted department head, an expert called onto a committee, a future member of a management team.
How does it differ from "Anticipating: Scenarios and Strategic Thinking"?
Taking a step back means reading the present situation as a whole. Anticipating means building scenarios of the future and preparing the organisation for several possible futures. The first day is good preparation for the second.
What does the workshop produce?
A short note on a real file from your scope, rewritten for management: context, stake, options, request. It can be used as it stands after the session.
Is it useful for a newly appointed manager?
More after a few months in the post. A new manager first needs the basics of leading a team; this day becomes useful when they have to represent their department beyond their own team.
Practical information
- Duration
- 1 day
- Audience
- Experienced managers, experts called to cross-functional responsibilities, members of management teams
- Prerequisites
- A few years of experience in a management or expert role
- Group size
- Groups of 6 to 12 participants, in-company
- Format
- In-company, face to face on your site
- Language
- French, Darija or English; bilingual materials
- Funding
- OFPPT special training contracts (TFP), GIAC, Maroc PME: we prepare the applications with you, at no extra cost.
- Programme customisation
- Programme adapted to your procedures, your equipment and your audience
Organise this course
Price and dates on quote, depending on your headcount, your site and your preferred period.
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