Strategic Planning
Course aim:
A strategic planning training course that demystifies the whole process and provides a practical approach to understanding strategy and strategic thinking.
Strategic planning is an essential business management skill: coming up with a vision for a better, brighter future and translating that into a doable strategic plan. At the same time, it is a creative and exciting process that takes you beyond the restrictions of current thinking and opens up new possibilities for the future.
This strategic planning course takes the form of a journey through a simple strategic planning process from vision to implementation plan. During the programme you will apply the process to an area in which you wish to think strategically.
Course Content:
- A Strategy Model
- A Compelling Strategic Vision
- The Mission
- Supporting Values
- Measuring Success
- Fact Finding – PESTO, SWOT, etc
- Strategic Objectives
- Getting SMART
- Creative Problem Solving
- Making and aligning Strategic Plans
- Strategic Partnerships
Strategic Planning Learning Outcomes:
As a result of attending our strategic planning training course you will:
- Be familiar with a simple strategic planning model
- Understand how to apply the model in real life
- Recognise and understand common strategic planning terminology
- Know how and why to set truly s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g goals
- Be able to apply creative problem-solving techniques
- Understand how to motivate people to deliver your strategy
- Have an outline strategic plan in an appropriate template
