Introduction

Strategic planning is about getting your team, department or organization where it needs to go. Starting from knowing where you are and moving to where you want to get to, our Strategic planning and thinking skills course takes you right through the strategic planning process with helpful tools, techniques and ideas for every stage to enhance your strategic thinking skills. Many managers are now required to plan more strategically, whether that is for their department or the wider organization. The Successful Strategic Planning and Implementation 5 days training course will help participants to gain the knowledge needed to formulate, execute and monitor the strategic planning to meet organisational and developmental business objectives.

Who should attend?

Our Strategic planning and thinking skills course is suitable for managers with strategic planning responsibility. Although the emphasis is on corporate or organisation-wide planning, the tools and techniques covered will have value for business unit or departmental managers. The course also designed for senior managers, department heads, directors and anyone involved in planning and/or implementing strategies for business units and organisations.

Outcome:

By the end of the Strategic planning and thinking skills training you will be confident in differentiating strategic from business planning. You will recognise the importance and value of detailed analysis and have experience in using a variety of tools and techniques. You will have an appreciation of the relationship between your organisation’s vision and mission and its future, and will have applied this thinking to your own organisation. You will also have a clear understanding of monitoring and evaluation, and will have improved your strategic thinking skills. You Will Learn How to:

• Formulate and execute strategic plans to meet objectives
• Apply strategy planning processes at an organisational and department level
• Assess the business environment
• Identify strategic options for long-term competitive advantage
• Implement strategies to deliver results

Course Outlines:

Day 1

About Strategy and Strategic Planning

• Introduction – what is Strategic Planning?
• Different models of Strategic Planning
• Benefits of Strategic Planning
• When should Strategic Planning be done?
• Various overviews of Strategic Planning process
• Samples of plans

Day 2

Strategic Analysis

• Recognise threats and opportunities
• Identify strengths and weaknesses
• Identifying high-risk areas
• Define unique resources and core competences
• Analysing strategic capability
• stakeholders impact analysis

Day 3

Strategic Formulation

• Critical insights
• Identifying, acquiring and cultivating new strategic capabilities
• Strategizing (identifying goals and methods to achieve them)
• Developing/Updating Mission, Vision and Value Statements
• Strategic alliances with the competition

Day 4

Implementing Strategy

• Communicating the strategy to the organisation
• Developing the corporate Balanced Scorecard
• Project management framework
• Changing the Plan as Necessary During Implementation
• Guidelines to Manage Organizational Change While Implementing the Plan

Day 5

Dimension of Strategic Control

• Detecting Changes in assumptions
• Coping with dynamic environment
• Adjusting for unanticipated events
• General review