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
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.