Whether you are starting a business, growing a business, or preparing for retirement, the probability of accomplishing your goal increases substantially when you plan it rather than just start doing it. Planning is even more critical during challenging economic times or when multiple people and groups need to coordinate their actions to accomplish the primary goals, as is true of almost all organizational goals.
In today’s challenging economic world, organizational planning has become even more critical, not only to survive but to thrive. Most business executives will agree, intellectually, with the preceding statement, but the agreement is not enough.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Understand the concepts and the differences between strategy, planning, goals, and tactics.
Demonstrate how the operating unit’s strategic plan contributes to the organization’s strategic plan.
Master the steps in building a useful strategic plan.
Recognize and review your options during the process to optimize your results.
Create clear, simple communication tools.
Build a solid strategic plan that is unique to your organization.
Develop a realistic implementation plan.
Measure your results to make sure the organization is achieving its objectives.
Managers, Supervisors, and Team Leaders
Strategic Planning Department
Human Resources Staff
Employees who want to get important skills to improve their career
What is it and how to effectively create it?
Major international concepts on what it is AND is not
Developing and using Strategic Thinking
Vision, Mission, and Strategy: the relationships between & how to create the natural flow between them
The steps involved in developing a strategy: a checklist
Understanding your Unique Competitive Advantage & how to state it
Formulating strategy and managing change
Creating a corporate culture of consistent strategic development
The essence of globalization and global strategy
How to build and manage a strategic planning team
The framework of a strategy: avoiding 'paralysis by analysis'
Using effective tools such as the “new” SWOT, Porter’s 5-Forces, GE, etc.
Strategy Matrix: understanding options and analyzing business attractiveness
External analysis: using the PESTLE tool to gain insight & Market analysis
Determining the right strategies for the organization
Goals & Objectives: the specifics are critical
Short-term
Medium-term
Long-term
Contingency planning because something always goes wrong
Documenting the plan
How do we communicate the plan?
Using multiple channels to get the message across
Leveraging people’s learning styles to communicate more effectively
Communicating strategy through the organization
Using Your Emotional Intelligence
Dealing with resistance effectively
Setting up a Rewards system
Celebrating success – but not stopping the momentum
Effective implementation - converting planning into action
Planning the implementation: Using a project management tool
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