Management, leadership preparation, strategic planning, mission, internal and external environment

ONE-DAY WORKSHOP

For 6 to 20 participants at your place of business

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

This workshop is designed to combine proven-by-practice strategic planning methods with new insights and ideas from a wide range of current thinking. Participants learn strategic planning for the department level by doing and gaining a wider perspective of practice exercises and department case study situations.

This workshop can be customized for specific industries and participant groups.

YOU WILL LEARN TO:

  • Improve your knowledge of strategic planning to understand what senior management is thinking and why – and increase your value to your organization!
  • understand the impact of strategy on their work and their organization’s success
  • Gain a perspective and vocabulary for strategic planning to help you actively and constructively support your firm’s strategic direction

COURSE OUTLINE

Strategic Planning Process Overview

  • Identify the questions that any strategic planning exercise must address
  • Identify the analyses typically incorporated in a strategic planning
  • Describe how these questions and analyses can be organized into a structured strategic planning process
  • Make choices concerning some of the decisions necessary in designing a strategic planning approach
  • Describe how your planning effort relates to planning at other levels of the organization

Strategic Planning Principle

  • A frame of reference for strategic planning concepts
  • Schools of thought in strategic planning
  • The evolution of strategy

The Strategic Planning Process

  • Understanding the basic elements of strategic planning
  • Developing and managing the strategy formation process

Understanding Your Organization’s Mission

  • Incorporating your organization’s core values
  • Creating a mission statement for your own organization

Assessing the External Environment

  • Identifying macro and micro factors
  • Responding to changes in the environment
  • Assessing competitive factors

Understanding Your Internal Environment

  • The importance of history
  • How to become a high-performing department
  • Key elements of developing strategy

Formulating Your Strategic Planning

  • Data synthesis

METHODS TO BE USED

This workshop uses practice exercises to simulate the planning process. Job Aids such as “The Ultimate Planning Kit” and the Reconnaissance tool enhance the learning.

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Course Code: LSR710

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