Strategic Planning & Goal Setting:
Setting Business Goals, Targets & Deliverables
(Certified Planner)

Accreditations

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A GLOMACS - Oxford Management Centre collaboration aimed at providing the best training services and benefits to our valued clientele.

 

Introduction

Effective strategic planning is essential to the future success of any organization. However, most strategic planning is lacking in vision. It is merely a straight-line extrapolation of the past into the future. In a world where the rate of change is greater than ever before this is at best shortsighted and at worst a prescription for disaster. Real strategic planning is about positioning the organization for a future which will be different from the past. This new seminar will focus on strategic planning as the essential management system guiding the organization into the future.

Objectives

By the end of this programme you will be able to:

• To study the design of visionary strategic plans
• To consider how to translate strategic plans into action plans
• To examine a model for organisational self-assessment
• To provide insights into strategic planning problems to avoid
• To highlight examples of strategic success and failure
• To understand the nature of the organisational life cycle
• To provide insights into productive contingency planning

Training Methodology

The most up to date training methodology is used to present this seminar. The seminar is carefully designed to address all styles of learning and to engage participants fully. Lectures and discussions are either preceded or followed by powerful individual or group exercises. These exercises provide opportunities for personal participation in real situations. During these exercises you discover that you can do what you are learning. This process makes the training fun filled, fast-paced, challenging and empowering.

Organisational Impact

• More efficient allocation of resources
• Greater flexibility in the organisaiton
• Improved operating performance

Personal Impact

• Sharper focus on the challenges and opportunities of the future
• More creative and transforming strategic plans
• Better analysis of present and future operating environments
• Improved preparedness to deal with contingencies

Competencies Emphasized

This programme aims to enable participants to develop the following competencies:

• Visionary thinking
• Strategic planning
• Strategic leadership
• Performance management
• Creative imagination
• Knowledge management
• Change management

Who Should Attend?

This seminar is designed for professionals in all industries who are involved with the strategic planning process for their unit or the whole organization including budgeting, contingency planning, strategy design, implementation, leadership and monitoring.

 SEMINAR OUTLINE 

DAY 1

The strategic planning process

• Achieving competitive advantage by developing flexibility
• Intelligence gathering for SWOT analysis
• Formulating strategy and managing change

DAY 2

The strategic planning process

• Mission statement, preparing for the future
• Market analysis and contingency planning
• Transforming the organisation; strategy implementation and monitoring

DAY 3

Assessing current state of the organization

• Leadership and strategic planning with customer and market focus
• Measurement, analysis and knowledge management
• Human resources and process management for business results

DAY 4

Avoiding the pitfalls of strategic planning

• Lack of vision, captured by the past or lured into complacency by success
• Inability to evaluate fresh ideas, denying the truth and thinking inside the box
• Strategic drift

DAY 5

Personal strategic planning

• Personal goal setting, creating a personal strategic plan
• Developing inspiration and gathering support
• Overcoming adversity by leveraging your skills and building on success

Assessment

• Following attendance on the workshop you are required to complete a SWOT analysis on the area of the organisation for which you have responsibility.
• You should bear in mind the topics covered on the programme.
• The SWOT analysis should be accompanied by explanations to substantiate each claim or recognition of specific characteristics.

Accreditations

 

The Certified Planner is a fully Endorsed Programme and upon completion of the seminar and assessment, successful applicants will also be awarded a Certificate from the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM).

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