An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Strategic Thinking, Analysis, Planning and Goal Setting
Course Introduction
This Strategic Thinking, Analysis and Planning and Goal Setting training course gives you a robust practical framework to formulate, develop and implement plans to achieve strategic goals and realise your vision. It shows you how to break out of reacting to day-to-day problems, so you can build a team or organisation that is more proactive and resilient to change.
A key feature of this training course is a comprehensive strategic management system that guides you through the steps needed to develop the right strategy then translate it into a business plan that provides the foundations for achieving strategic alignment of operational plans and individual objectives with your business model.
This Oxford Management Centre Strategic Thinking, Analysis and Planning and Goal Setting training course will highlight:
- The difference between good and bad strategies.
- Improving the performance of an existing company, division, department when faced with major changes in business conditions.
- Balancing financial and non-financial objectives and goals.
- Developing an existing company, division, department.
- Aligning all activity to focus on the strategic goals and not be distracted by less important issues.
Objectives
The central objectives of this Strategic Thinking, Analysis and Planning and Goal Setting training course are as follows.
- Learn how to develop a plan to achieve the goals you want for you and your organization (company/division/business unit/team)
- Develop strategic thinking in your organization.
- Develop strategic plan in your organization.
- Identify the principles and mechanisms that drive successful implementation.
- Develop measurable action plans that result in success.
- Understand your underlying business model and how it relates to your strategy.
Training Methodology
This highly interactive Strategic Thinking, Analysis and Planning and Goal Setting training course encourages delegate participation through a combination of short lectures, large and small group discussions, practical exercises, case studies, and breakout sessions to practise new skills. The comprehensive course manual has been designed to be practical, and easy to use. Delegates will gain the skills and motivations they need to design, develop and implement powerful but simple strategies.
Organisational Impact
Enhanced Strategic Thinking, Analysis and Planning and Goal Setting training course enables an organisation to increase stakeholder satisfaction through:
- A great a strategic perspective at all levels of the organisation.
- Development of the next generation of strategic leaders.
- Development of specialist managers who are able and empowered to think strategically.
- Better appreciation by functional specialists and managers of the challenges faced by top management and steering an organisation through change.
- Better internal communication at a strategic level.
- Creating tomorrow's organisation.
Personal Impact
Delegates will develop their ability to use strategic thinking to become more proactive and build business plans to implement strategic initiatives through:
- Greater confidence in understanding the potential strategic impact of current managerial roles.
- A better appreciation of the interconnected nature of major business decisions.
- Understanding how to shift from reacting to problems to making things happen the way you want for you in your organisation.
- Knowing how to simplify- be able to deliver three to five critical things instead of struggling with 30 to 50 UN prioritised tasks.
- Developing and delivering long-, medium- and short-term plans
Who Should Attend?
This training course will provide a vital knowledge base to prepare for greater responsibility and moving into more senior roles. It will benefit managers who are about to take on strategic wants’ responsibility: those who have recently done so and more established senior managers who want to update their knowledge, including:
- Business managers
- Team leaders
- Process leaders
- Functional managers
- Project managers
- Newly appointed managers
Course Outline
Day One
Strategic Thinking and Planning
- The essence of strategy, core concept and definition of terms.
- The difference between good strategy and bad strategy
- How to think strategically, practical techniques?
- Leadership and management, comparing strategy and operations.
- Strategic and operational goals, the significance and difference.
- Using the strategic management system.
Day Two
Strategic Intent, Strategic Choice and Balancing Scorecards
- Business Analysis and contingency planning.
- Vision, values, mission and goals- strategy as perspective.
- Analysing your business environment
- How to evaluate your organisations competencies and capabilities?
- Resource based approaches to strategy.
- Applying Balance Scorecards
Day Three
Strategy development, choice and translation
- Levels of strategy: corporate, business and functional
- Competitive strategy, Strategy as position
- Emergent strategies, strategy as patterns
- Uncertainty and scenarios, strategy as plans
- Strategic choice, how to select the best strategy
- Translating strategy with strategy maps and balanced scorecards
Day Four
Strategic Planning Best Practice Whilst Avoiding the Pitfalls
- Stakeholder analysis and communication
- The Strategy Life Cycle and the problem of strategic drift
- Evaluating and improving performance against the plan
- How to manage strategic risk?
- The Critical Importance of Good Planning, Team Dynamics.
- Performance management and Management
Day Five
Putting the Strategic Business Plan into Action
- Communicating Strategy to align your organisation.
- Analysing business models and strategies in an industry
- Effective implementation, covering strategic plans intangible results
- Case study: linking operational plans with strategic objectives
- Personal goals, plans and commitment to act
Certificate
On successful completion of this training course, Oxford Management Centre Certificate with eligible Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) from National Registry of CPE Sponsor will be awarded to the delegates
Accreditation
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National Association of State Board of Accountancy (NASBA)
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