Training Course Content
This Advanced Strategic Management course will cover:
Formulating Strategy to Achieve Vision
- Agree vision, mission, culture and values of organisation
- Analyse where organisation is now
- Decide where the organisation wants to be, and by when
- Selecting best strategic options to get there
Structures, Processes and Procedures
- Budget creation, monitoring and control
- Costing techniques and margin management
- Resource allocation and balancing priorities
- Creating systems to monitor effectiveness of implementation
Measurement and Reporting
- Setting long-term goals and manageable short-term targets
- Building contingencies into the strategy
- Measuring at clearly-defined milestones
- Reporting and incorporating feed-back
Stakeholder Identification
- Identify who affects or is affected by proposed strategy (stakeholders)
- Encourage stakeholder ownership through involvement in strategy creation
- Clarify benefits and implications for each group of stakeholders
- Turn resistance into support
Systematic Strategic Communication
- Two-way communication for stakeholders to inform and be informed
- Clear, concise and relevant messages from the best messenger
- Identify and use a variety of methods and channels
- Gain commitment through frequency of communication
Leadership and Strategic Decision-Making
- Importance of leadership in implementing successful strategies
- High-profile leadership which inspires and motivates
- Decisive, speedy and consistent decision-making
- Persistent follow-through on all decisions to produce results
Risk and Crisis Management
- Identify all risks, evaluate potential impact and mitigate accordingly
- Incorporate strategic flexibility to respond to internal and external changes and pressures
- Prevent issues becoming risks then turning into crises
- Create, practise and be prepared to implement crisis plans
Prevent Failure of Strategies
- Recruit and retain people with appropriate skills, experience and track record
- Clarify and communicate roles and responsibilities
- Encourage creative problem-solving and constructive conflict resolution
- Promote unity within teams and harmony between teams
Skills for Success
- Communication, including: presentations, meetings, oral, listening, body language and written
- Delegation to increase productivity
- Negotiation and influencing skills for a win-win for all
- Time management for minimum effort to produce maximum results
Expenses
In-House Training
London Corporate Training offers the possibility of delivering this training programme in-house to meet any and all company-specific training needs.
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London Corporate Training have been established in the education, consulting and training industries for two decades. They work as a training team from their head office in London and aim to ensure all of their course participants receive the highest...
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