Course description
Effective strategic planning is essential to the future success of any organisation. However, most strategic planning is lacking in vision. It is merely a linear viewpoint taken by a few senior employees rather than a strategic assessment of the best positioning the organisation can take for the future.
Highlights of the Seminar:
- Presentation of the concept and significance of strategy and strategic planning
- Introduction to the main approaches to strategy formulation and goal setting
- Case examples of organisations formulating strategic plans
- Group work on specific cases and problems
- Extensive use of practical examples in which the course leader has been personally involved
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who will benefit from attending?
This course is appropriate for participants who wish to enhance their skills in all of the following competencies
- Creative and abstract thinking
- Diagnosing Problems and finding solutions
- Understanding what makes Real Leadership
- Change managing opportunities
- The Psychology of creating and Imagining the future and moving towards it the Future
- Strategically building teams that work and recruitment strategies
- Strategic presentation and communications strategy
Who should attend?
This seminar is designed for professionals in all types of private and public sector organisation who are involved with the strategic and operational planning processes for their unit or the whole organisation, including activities such as budgeting, contingency planning, strategy design, implementation, leadership and performance monitoring.
- Specialist managers in any part of the organisation who wish to take a broader view of the potential of the organisation for the future
- Operational managers / specialists who wish to acquire additional competencies in the sphere of business strategy
- All managers / specialists responsible for setting team goals / targets and for managing teams in implementation of strategic and operating plans
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Delegates must meet the following criteria to be eligible for a Certificate of Completion for the Course
Satisfactory attendence: Delegates must attend all the sessions: Any delegate missing a substantive part of the sessions will not be eligible to sit the assessment
Course assessment: Successful Completion of the Course Assessment
Training Course Content
- Recognising Good Strategy from a Bad Strategy - What are the Differences ?
- The key reasons strategies fail and how to prevent failure
- Start at the End - diagnosing the problems what is wrong with your Business, your Industry, etc. and the Critical Success Factors for a good Corporate Strategy
- Choosing and Building a Business Model - Models that will provide sustainable profit and growth
- Building the Troops (The Team) and getting them ready for engagement, choosing the Lieutenants (Management) and Leadership
- How to Build and Manage Strategy - build and manage a strategic planning team, establish entrepreneurial thinking, producing results not Reasons / failure
- Marketing Strategy - the life of your product and industry and how to gain a Competitive advantage or make the competition irrelevant
- Financial Strategy, Pricing Strategy and the economics of the Marketplace
- Growth & Globalisation - In which direction do we grow ?
- Creating tomorrow’s Organisation out of today’s organisation
- Change the Management of Opportunity
Course delivery details
Training Methodology:
The most up to date training methods are used to present this seminar
The seminar is carefully designed to address all styles of learning and to engage participants fully. Formal presentations and discussions are supplemented by group exercises. These exercises provide opportunities for personal participation in real situations and during these exercises you discover how to apply what you are learning. This process makes the learning process enjoyable, fast-paced, challenging and empowering.
The course is also available to be run in-company. Contact the provider to learn more
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