Start Date: 9 May, 2027
End Date: 13 May, 2027
Duration: 5 Days
Overall Description:
This strategic planning training course provides a thorough grounding on how to create, measure, implement and control a successful business plan.
Course Objectives:
Apply strategic planning and thinking to analyze their current environment and determine their organizational ambition
• Employ the strategic management process to best achieve the desired ambition
• Assess and choose strategies that create a sustainable competitive advantage for the organization
• Determine strategic objectives, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and 'SMART' targets for the organization
• Convert strategic plans to operating plans through creating strategic initiatives and sequencing activities
• Participate in the performance management system to ensure proper execution of chosen strategies
Course Outline (Content):
Strategic thinking and planning
• Strategic thinking versus strategic planning
• The strategic management process
• Benefiting from strategic management
Analysis of the environment
• Creating and capturing value
• Conducting a SWOT analysis
• Internal strengths of an organization
• Internal weaknesses of an organization
• External opportunities
• External threats
• Fundamentals of the PEDESTL framework
• Succeeding in strategic analysis
Vision, mission statements and values
• Using vision and mission statements
• Definition of vision statements
• Formulating vision statements
• Definition of mission statements
• Formulating mission statements
• Embracing organizational values
• Communicating the vision, mission and values
Assessing strategic choices
• Corporate Strategy
• Business Strategy
• Innovating
• Developing a competitive advantage
Strategic objectives, KPIs and targets
• Ensuring strategic alignment in the organization
• Developing effective strategic objectives
• Using the Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
• Using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Setting SMART targets
Developing operating plans
• Cascading from vision to action plans
• Criteria for effective action plans
• Developing strategic initiatives
• Managing the execution of strategy
• Control process
Who Should Attend?
- Team Leaders, Managers, Decision-Makers, Planners and Strategic Thinkers.
- Strategy planning Team members of department and Head of departments.
Course Methodology:
We utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This training course will be conducted as a highly interactive workshop session. A variety of training methodologies will be used Before and during the course whenever applicable. Some of these methods are gamification, online pre-post test, role plays, self-assessment instruments, group exercises & case studies.
