An intensive professional development training course on
Implementing your Strategic Vision through Practical Planning
Why Choose Implementing your Strategic Vision through Practical Planning Training Course?
The Structure
This comprehensive training course consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10-Day Training event, or as individual, 5-Day training courses.
Module 1 - Practical Business Planning
Module 2 - Leadership & Strategic Impact
The Course Content
Module 1: Practical Business Planning
- Introduction – planning as leadership
- Business Planning as a cross-business process – “Train hard, fight easy!”
- Bottom-up and Top-down planning approaches
- Resources and facilities required for successful planning
- Financial Planning and Business Planning
- The importance of practical delivery – “where the rubber meets the road!”
- Using the Fishbone© approach to shape the problem for an imaginary client described in student case study material
- Appraisal of the plan start point
- Formulation of the desired end-state
- Analysis of the “terrain of travel”
- Planning for Effectiveness
- Planning for Efficiency
- Porter’s Five Forces analysis
- SWOT and Force-field analysis
- The Boston Matrix
- The Ansoff Matrix
- The Communications Matrix©
- The Balanced Scorecard
- PRINCE2 programme/project management
- Plan delivery and governance
- Engaging and motivating the organization’s resources
- Business Planning as part of Total Quality Management and “Lean”
- Measurement and Display
- Building a planning culture
- Communicating the plan to stakeholders
- Stepping stones, trip-ups and milestones
- Resourcing the projects
- Monitoring and celebrating success
- Continuous improvement of the process
- The “proof of the pudding”
- Strategy Development and Strategic Planning
- Understanding Stakeholder Interests – A Compromise
- Life cycles: business, product, market
- Achieving business sustainability, the value chain
- Popular strategy tools - understanding their limits
- Understanding the business environment
- Strategizing is a process
- Strategy Tools: imagining possible futures
- Examples: how CEO’s use strategy tools
- Zoom in, zoon out – information needed for emergent, agile strategies
- Red & Blue Ocean strategies – role of competitors
- Innovation: Attitudes to failure
Module 2: Leadership & Strategic Impact
- Vision, Mission and Values – just words?
- Elements of strategic management
- Globalisation and its impact on Strategy Formulation
- Tactics for securing and keeping customers
- Communicating priorities and objectives
- Using influence to achieve outcomes
- Using the Balanced Scorecard as a strategic measurement tool
- Strategy mapping
- Developing KPI’s to deliver corporate objectives
- Measuring past performance, predicting future results
- Business processes, management reviews and improvement opportunities
- People plus data, leads to understanding, knowledge and tactics
- Planning, the key to better outcomes
- Addressing barriers to action
- Gaining commitment
- Leading teams
- Team exercise – making decisions, taking action
- Reflections on learning, personal development plans
Certificate and Accreditation
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The training fees include full access to the training venue, along with comprehensive training materials to enhance your learning experience. Additionally, participants will be provided with writing supplies and stationery. To ensure comfort and convenience, the fee also covers lunch and refreshing coffee breaks throughout the duration of the course.
Our training programs are hosted at luxurious five-star hotels in prestigious destinations across the globe. Some of our popular locations include Dubai, London, Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam, New York, Paris, Vienna, and many other iconic cities.
