Leadership Training Center

Strategic Management and Strategic Planning

INTRODUCTION:

This Leadership Training Course “Strategy and Strategic Planning” will enable you to make a major contribution to creating tomorrow’s organisation out of today’s organisation. Strategy and strategic planning are the vital activities that enable all managers to (a) anticipate major change in the structure and potential of their business and, (b) make a significant personal contribution to the processes of business development.

All managers need to understand and deal with the major changes that are taking place in markets, technologies, competition, business models and risk management - plus the overarching influence of globalisation. To achieve this strategic planning team must take into account how to use all available resources in order to chart a course that will enable an organisation to develop strongly and deliver outstanding financial and other results, often in rapidly changing business conditions.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

Leverage the value of strategy and strategic planning
Design a strategic planning process for your organisation
Analyse options and make robust choices in setting goals and objectives
Understand the importance of clear Vision, Mission and Values statements
Develop key leadership skills such as motivation and interpersonal communications, for effective implementation of strategic plans
Lead effective strategic change within your part of your organization

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

Specialists in marketing and business development
Experienced managers / leaders in finance and accounting
Specialists in production and operations management
Scientists in research and development
Logistics and distribution specialists
Human resource and organisational development staff

Course Outline:

Strategy Concepts:

Recognise how strategic thinking has developed and how it influences strategies within your organisation
Understand the importance of vision and values to communicating strategy in organisations
Identify the key strategies for every organisation
Distinguish between the process of creating strategy and the content of strategy

Strategic Thinking and External Analysis:

Definitions of strategy and strategic planning
Why are strategy and strategic planning important
Understanding the main frameworks for strategic analysis
Private and public sector strategies – Similarities and Differences
External analysis - Understanding and Analysing Business Attractiveness
Analysing customers and benchmarking your own strategic position
How attractive is the game that we have chosen to play

Strategic Plans and the Relevance of Alliances and Joint Ventures:

Review of the tools used so far
The content of a strategy: Avoiding “Paralysis by Analysis”
Putting a strategic plan together – the 5-page framework
Strategies for alliances and joint ventures
Management of alliances and joint ventures

Strategic Planning:

Using PESTLE to Analyse External Factors
How to balance the needs of diverse stakeholders?
Analysing the Capabilities of your Own Organisation
Undertaking Valuable SWOT Analyses
Turning Analysis into Strategic Plans

Strategic Implementation and Getting the Value out of Strategy:

Alignment of strategy, culture, structure and people
Effective execution - Converting Strategic Analysis and Planning into Action
Aligning and linking strategy with operational objectives
Implementation – Getting Practical Things Done
Creating tomorrow’s organisation out of today’s organisation
Strategic planning at a personal level
Overview: The complete strategy process
Summary and conclusions - The Corporate And Individual Value Of Strategic Planning