Overview:
The act of planning is often times just as significant as putting those plans into action. This course teaches students how to create effective planning strategies, identify issues that may derail planning, and define strategic values.
Audience:
Managers or supervisors
Prerequisites
None.
Course duration:
1 day
Course outline:
1. The pillars of planning
- What ensures long-term success?
- What is strategic planning?
- Benefits of strategic planning
- Why is strategic planning important?
- Is strategic planning right for you?
- Strategic thinking
- Basic steps in strategic planning
- Rewards and celebration
2. The power of a shared vision
- Getting ready to plan
- What is a visionary company?
- Defining your core values
- Developing a vision statement
3. Powering up the double A’s: analysis and agenda
- Components of a SWOT analysis
- Analyzing your internal environment
- Analyzing your external environment
- Preparing a strategic agenda
4. Turning strategy into action
- Writing goals
- Extracting goals from your strategic agenda
- Writing target objectives
- Supporting your goals with objectives
- Writing action plans
- Developing your action plan
5. Seeing your plan through
- Getting active with implementation
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Deviating from Plan
- Rewards and celebration
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