Strategic Planning & Goal Setting

OBJECTIVES

• Understand how to design, implement and evaluate strategic plans.
• Work with different frameworks to analyze your industry.
• Know your SWOT and work on your competencies.
• Assist your workforce to translate strategic plans into action plans.
• Avoid the problems that can fail your planning and achievement targets.
• Become visionary, analytical and creative thinker.
• Make rational and logical choices for decisions.
• Set challenging, realistic and achievable targets.
• Measure performance and manage progress.
• Be individually competitive and skilled.

Course Outline

STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Understanding Strategic concepts and their scope.
• Achieving competitive advantage through flexibility and agility.
• How to create a structure for strategy.
• Frameworks for gathering information for analysis.

STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION

• Future depends on your purpose – Vision and mission.
• Business analysis and contingency planning.
• Making Strategic choice – rationality clause.
• Formulation – programs, projects, policies.
• Managing complacency for change.

STRATEGIC EVALUATION

• Human resources and knowledge management.
• Building a strategic planning team.
• Effective process management to achieve business results.
• Monitoring and measuring business performance.

BUILDING EFFECTIVENESS FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING

• The strategy life-cycle and the problem of strategic drift.
• Creative and innovative culture.
• Thinking outside the box.
• The potentially negative dimensions of success.
• Knowing when to stop and when to start.
• Coordination to be at its best.

PERSONAL STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Applying strategic tools and techniques to the individual.
• Personal goal setting, creating a personal strategic plan.
• Competencies and skills for a strategic manager.
• Developing inspiration and gathering support.