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
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a management concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns into their business operations and interactions with their stakeholders. CSR has been considered an efficient marketing tool for gaining the competitive advantages a company needs in order to be on top in the context of the current hyper-competitive environment.
You will learn vital skills for managing and creating content in this course. To help you establish a social media presence, you'll learn how to craft compelling social media posts and how to develop a powerful brand. Additionally, you'll discover how to create an ongoing procedure for handling your content. A content calendar should be created, postings should be managed and moderated, data should be analyzed for insights and iteration, and post effectiveness should be increased.
Are you under pressure from an ever-growing task list, conflicting demands and constantly changing priorities? Productive working practices are valuable skills in today’s work environment. Competition is intense and companies need people who can organize their time effectively, collaborate with others to achieve goals, and who constantly strive to better meet customer and stakeholder needs.
This popular course will support you to develop practices and techniques to manage this pressure proactively, allowing you to meet deadlines and deliver against your objectives. You will also develop skills in working well with others to ensure success.
The 5-Day Mini MBA is a unique distillation of the skills that need to be acquired in order to be considered successful in modern business. Not everyone is able to devote a year or two of their time to studying for a Masters in Business Administration, but in an age of rapid change in a highly competitive environment, it is crucial to have a thorough understanding of the issues involved in the smooth and successful running of a business. The 5 Day Mini MBA Leadership & Management Masterclass is a highly intensive training course covering all the usual subjects associated with an MBA. In 5 days, a delegate will learn what normally takes a year of full-time study. The Mini MBA course is designed to provide delegates with comprehensive knowledge of fundamental, proven strategies taught as both an academic and practical exercise. As a result, the course will provide a comprehensive understanding of the skills and knowledge that will be required for any person to further develop their business knowledge and skills and even to prepare them for actual formal study for an MBA. The course is designed to be delivered either as an “In House” class for an organization’s directors and senior management or as a public class where delegates from a number of companies can learn both from the course and from one another and exchange ideas and best practice.
Large capital-intensive projects in the oil and gas industries require substantial - and mostly risky - investments in the acquisition, exploration, and subsequent operation and maintenance of new organizational assets.
The decision of whether or not to invest in new capital projects in the oil and gas industry starts with critical decisions during the exploration phase of new development or the expansion of an existing field. The decision-making tools used to analyze project risk under conditions of uncertainty will help companies to determine the probability of success or loss and will drive the decision to develop or abandon the well.
Crisis management is concerned with responding to, managing, and recovering from an unforeseen event. Risk management is concerned with identifying, assessing, and mitigating any activity or event that could cause harm to the business. Risks can be strategic or operational in nature. A business continuity plan (BCP) is a process that outlines the potential impact of disaster situations on business operations. It creates policies that respond to various situations to ensure a business is able to recover quickly after a crisis.