Strategic Planning and Performance Management

This 3-day course will include in-depth study of strategic thinking, strategic planning, organization assessment, strategy mapping, performance measures and target setting, strategic initiatives, automation, cascading and strategic management. This course will also introduce project managers to balance scorecard (bsc) award-winning nine steps to success bsc development methodology. Participants learn how to build and implement a bsc with a practical step-by-step approach.

Are you a manager, executive director or CEO who is looking to better understand the strategic planning and Performance Management process before you run it with your team?

This strategic planning and Performance Management training will help you:

• Create strategies that are easy to understand, implement and measure.
• Identify risks and roadblocks early so you save money and time by not being surprised by uncertainty.
• Build a strategy that is uniquely derived from your team’s strengths; creating a longer lasting competitive advantage
• Create a strategy that your whole team will get behind and work towards.
• Get buy in early to make the process of change and growth easy and enjoyable.
• To provide the means through which better results can be obtained from the organization, teams and individuals by understanding and managing performance within an agreed framework of planned goals, standards and competence requirements.
• It involves the development of processes for establishing shared understanding about what is to be achieved, and an approach to managing and developing people in a way that increase the probability that it will be achieved in the short and longer term. 

Training Objectives

Upon completion of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Basic concepts of the BSC and how it can be used to improve organization project performance
• How the balanced scorecard applies to different types of organizations and project structure
• How to build and implement a scorecard using the Nine Steps to Success methodology
• How to develop more meaningful performance measures and project performance
• How to use small group simulations to understand decision choices
• How to think strategically without getting bogged down in tactical details
• How to design and implement a initiatives (projects) within existing frameworks
• Advanced concepts in performance measurement
• How to cascade the enterprise scorecard throughout the organization
• How to drive a performance-informed budget and build employee accountability
• How to overcome obstacles and real-world challenges

Who should Attend

• Functional Leaders (C-levels, VPs, General Managers, Managers)
• Corporate strategy, PMO team members and Project Team Members
• Portfolio Managers, Program Managers and Project Managers.
• Teams or individuals tasked with developing a strategic plan for their organization Teams or individuals with balanced scorecard or KPI/Performance Measure development responsibility
• Any project stakeholders who involved in project management from small to medium size projects.

Day One

Module 1: Evaluation to Assessment

• Best practices related to Steps Nine and One of the Nine Steps to Success

Module 2: Advanced Strategic Foundations Development

• How to analyze, identify and correct poor strategic foundation design and migrating from other planning models to the balanced scorecard

Module 3: Advanced Objective & Strategy Map Development

• Strategic Objective & Strategy Map Best Practices

Day Two

Module 4: Advanced Performance Management – Measure What Matters

• How to use several frameworks, such as the Logic Model, the Decision Model and the Critical Question model to develop a family of potential measurements for each objective

Module 5: Measurement Definition, Implementation & Visualization

• Advanced performance measurement definition, implementation & visualization

Module 6: Strategic Initiative Prioritization & Management

• Advanced strategic initiative prioritization techniques & project management primer

Day Three

Module 7: Advanced Scorecard Alignment & Cascading

• How to build organizational alignment through advanced cascading techniques

Module 8: Managing & Sustaining a Balanced Scorecard

• Day-to-day management and budgeting with a Balanced Scorecard