Strategic Planning

Summary

Strategic Planning 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, Mission and Values
14. Setting Business Goals
15. Assigning roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
16. Phase B: Measuring Success
17. Defining Key SuccessFactors
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

4.Plans and Strategy

1. Phase D: Implementing Change successfully
2. Plan to Implement
3. Organizing for Implementation
4. Strategic Planning Document
5. Ideas for Communicating the Strategic Plan
6. The Leadership Steering Committee
7. Keys to Success
8. Strategy Implementation and Change
9. Annual Strategic Review and Update

5.Problem Solving and Decision Making

1. 6 Hats of Edward de Bono
2. Understanding the brain
3. Removing emotions from decisions

Duration: 12 hours