Essentials of Strategic Planning
Course Overview
This 1-day course is designed to equip key manager and stakeholders with practical skills & knowledge to improve their strategic planning.
- Define Strategic Planning and Strategy.
- Five Essential Strategy Decisions That Drive Strategy Formation and Implementation in an Organization.
- How Strategy Cascades Throughout an Organization.
- Link Specific Role to the Organizational Strategy and to the Actions Required to implement the Strategic Plan.
Course Objectives
- What strategy and strategic planning really mean to you & organisation.
- How strategy creates value for your customers and stakeholders.
- How companies develop strategy: seven strategic planning processes.
- The strategic planning process in action: five stages of a classic approach.
- How to Assess the environments using SWOT, Core Competencies & CSF.
- Three Ds of strategy: discussion, decision, development.
- Implementing strategy: how strategy cascades through the organization.
Course Outline
- What Is Strategic Planning?
- Why Organizations Create Strategy
- How Organizations Develop Strategy—Processes for Creating Strategy
- The Strategic Planning Process in Action
- Assessing the Environment
- Three Ds of Strategy—Discussions, Decisions and Developments
- Implementing and Reviewing Strategy
Training Methodology
Short lecture, case studies and analysis, group discussions and individual reflection.
Who Should Attend
Key Managers and stakeholders who want to expand their strategic planning skills and management perspective, and anyone who must communicate with managers and leaders involved in the creation and implementation of strategy.
Program Duration
1 day
