2 Day Workshop -- Price: $995 taxes extra
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Strategic Objective
This course will provide experienced managers with advanced strategic planning knowledge, skills and tools, which further enhances their capacity to engage their people in planning and contributing to organization performance.
Learning Objectives
Participation in this workshop will build naturally on participant’s prior experience, enhancing their ability to…
• Diagnose needs and expectations for strategic and operational planning. This includes determining the relevance, timeliness and effectiveness of methodologies;
• Design and prepare tools for a strategic and operational planning session;
• Select from a range of strategic and operational planning process tools to address specific planning requirements.
Overview
The focus of the workshop is to provide managers with the skills and knowledge necessary to think and plan strategically, (both in the long and short term), in order to produce superior organizational performance.
Topics will include, but are not limited to…
Overview of Strategic Planning:
• Why develop strategy;
• Leadership, organizational performance and planning;
• An Appreciative Approach to planning;
• Purpose of planning;
• Framework for strategic planning;
• Pitfalls of planning.
Tools for Environmental Scanning:
• Define the organization mandate;
• Conduct an environmental scan:
o SWOT Analysis;
o Organization Diagnostic;
o Trend Analysis;
o Stakeholder Analysis.
Tools to Establish the Organization’s Purpose:
• Establish the organization’s mission;
• Create the future vision;
• Organizational values.
Tools to Develop Objectives:
• What is a strategic objective;
• Levels of planning;
• SMART objectives.
Tools for Operational Planning:
• Process for establishing goals linked to mission and vision;
• Develop Actions Plans;
• Monitor plans;
• Planning cycle.
