Business Strategic Management

Summary:

This workshop leads management in defining and achieving a vision that is ultimately linked to the customer. This workshop is based on a systematic thinking approach that will help individuals, teams, departments, and businesses of all sizes and types in a simple phased process to create and implement strategic planning successfully.

It begins with defining the end goal or vision first and then focuses all activities toward that outcome.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the new ways of looking at problems and opportunities
2. Explore creative and analytical techniques for generating fresh possibilities
3. Understand the role that values, culture, and goals have in resolving an issue successfully
4. Understand and select appropriate strategies for implementing decisions

Topics Covered

1. Strategic Business Planning Basics
2. What is a Strategy?
3. Understanding the Tasks of Strategic Management
4. Getting started with Backwards Thinking
5. The Benefits of Strategic Business Planning
6. Common mistakes in Strategic Planning
7. Plan to Plan
8. Questions to Consider
9. Developing a Practical value for your planning
10. Identifying Potential Barriers
11. The Strategic Business Planning Model
12. Phase A: Creating the Ideal future
13. Understanding Vision, Missionand Values
14. Setting Business Goals
15. Assigning roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
16. Phase B: Measuring Success
17. Defining Key Success Factors
18. Phase C: Developing and Converting Strategies to Actions
19. Current State Assessment
20. SWOT Analysis
21. PEST Analysis
22. Core Strategy Development
23. Identifying Changing Core Strategies
24. Identifying Continuing Core Strategies
25. Annual Plans and Strategic Budgets
26. Phase D: Implementing Change successfully
27. Plan to Implement
28. Organizing for Implementation
29. Strategic Planning Document
30. Ideas for Communicating the Strategic Plan
31. The Leadership Steering Committee
32. Keys to Success
33. Strategy Implementation and Change
34. Annual Strategic Review and Update

Duration: 12 hours