Advanced Strategic Planning

• What is Strategic planning?
• How strategic planning can improve your competitive advantage?
• The structure of strategic planning.
• “Competitive Positioning” vs. “Blue Sky” Approaches
• Understand the building blocks of a planning process
• Understand the difference between Strategic Thinking and Planning
• The difference between incremental and innovation strategies
• Review internal capabilities Tools.

Strategic planning processes: 

• Understand your organization and teams’ current situation.
• Building strong relationships between employees and customers.
• Knowledge management.
• Improving human resources techniques and building a Strategic Planning Team.
• Planning for Strategic Choice.
• Identifying your vision and mission.
• Business analysis techniques.
• Gathering Information and Intelligence for the SWOT Analysis
• What is Strategy Formulation?
• Monitoring and Measuring Business Performance
• Balanced Scorecards

Performance Management: Setting Performance Objectives

• The importance of performance management.
• What are the performance Goals?
• Key Elements of Performance Goals
• The Importance of Agreeing to Objectives
• Quantitative and Qualitative Objectives
• Setting Objectives
• Achieving Holistic Organization Integration – Vertical, Horizontal and Functional
• Setting SMART Goals

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 Setting Goals, Planning and Decision Making

• Review of management processes and skill areas
• Using a planning process to set goals and get work started
• Integrating goals, scope, work structure and management planning
• Identifying initial resource requirements
• Identifying risk techniques that affect work assignments, priorities and deadlines
• Communication that responds to: who, what where, when, how, why
• Understanding the importance of quality planning in work assignments
• Using planning to ensure task priorities are established
• Planning for time management, scheduling and meeting deadlines
• Improving communications and listening skills
• Planning for delegation responsibility and authority
• Techniques for making good decisions

Working With Your Team

• Identifying skills required to obtain the help of others
• The importance of group skills to achieve team success
• The importance of interpersonal skills in making personal and team decisions
• Empowering the team through delegation and decision making
• The importance of effective communication in team relations

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Developing Organizational Change Action Plans

• Overview and context of organizational change and the impact on goals, planning and decision making
• Managing change and lead the transforming process in the organization.
• Innovation and improvement for personal and team change
• Identification of change processes and human change
• Techniques to set personal and team change goals
• Dealing with people who do not want change
• Developing an action plan for personal and team change
• Recognize the leadership qualities needed for delivering change
• Implementing Change - Achieving Progress as a Strategic Manager

Managing for Efficiency & Effectiveness

• Understand what managers and leaders do and how they handle stress
• Gain confidence in budget setting and monitoring
• Identifying Personal Strategic Planning.
• Applying Strategic Tools and Techniques to the Individual
• Create a Personal Strategic Plan
• Review the impact of allocating tasks, roles & responsibilities on productivity
• Determine how quality of services is set and communicated to employees
• Practical Application.