Strategic Planning (From Vision To Action)

Learn a comprehensive, step-by-step strategic planning approach that you can apply immediately back in the workplace. Through each step, you’ll practice a variety of strategic planning tools and work through multiple case examples. You’ll leave a more competent and confident strategic planner.

How You Will Benefit:

• Apply a strategic planning framework to a real-life case study
• Expand your analytical skills when scanning the environment, the market, and when assessing your organization
• Identify competitors and market trends impacting your organization or industry
• Pin-point aspects of your products or services that provide strategic advantage for your organization.
• Sharpen your skills of synthesizing information and evaluating strategic options
• Communicate your plan in a way that gets people engaged and aligned to deliver on your goals
• Build your confidence as a contributor in the strategic planning process
• Learn analytical approaches to expand your understanding of the marketplace and your organization’s relative strengths and weaknesses
• Incorporate customer needs into your strategic planning
• Communicate your strategic plan more effectively to gain buy-in and execute it successfully
• Differentiate yourself as a strategic leader and communicator 
   

Course Features:

• Comprehensive framework to guide the strategic planning process
• Case study to apply the framework before connecting it to your own real-life situation
• Discussion touch-points to maximize the sharing of knowledge amongst participants
• Interactive exercises to reinforce thinking and communication skills in a safe environment where feedback and coaching are provided

Who Should Attend:

• Business leaders who currently play a role in their organization’s strategic planning process. Professionals wishing to strengthen their skills in this competency in order to become more effective leaders or to prepare for more senior roles.