A Highly Interactive Training Course On
Goal Setting, Planning & Decision Making
Master Goal Setting, Strategic Planning & Effective Decision Making
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Course Introduction
Are you navigating your workday reacting to urgent deadlines rather than proactively achieving your goals? Like many professionals, you may find yourself caught up in constant firefighting, struggling to balance priorities and make strategic decisions. Effective leadership starts with clarity—clarity of purpose, vision, and direction. Without it, even the most talented individuals may feel overwhelmed, unmotivated, or unsure of their next step.
The Goal Setting, Planning & Decision Making Training Course is designed to help you break free from reactive habits and build a strong foundation for success. By mastering the essential skills of goal setting, strategic planning, and confident decision making, you will gain the tools to manage your workload efficiently, lead with clarity, and achieve meaningful results. This course equips you with practical techniques to elevate both your professional performance and personal growth.
Key Takeaways from this course include:
- Understanding how to set inspiring and achievable goals using proven methods like SMART, HARD, and BHAG frameworks.
- Developing clear, actionable plans to achieve both short-term and long-term objectives.
- Mastering time management strategies to prioritize, organize, and schedule tasks effectively.
- Learning logical and intuitive decision-making techniques for individuals and teams.
- Enhancing problem-solving, creative thinking, and leadership skills.
Training Objectives
The Goal Setting, Planning & Decision Making Training Course is designed to equip professionals with essential leadership skills and actionable tools for success. By attending this training, participants will:
- Gain insights into the core habits, beliefs, and thinking patterns of highly effective leaders.
- Learn to create structured work plans for individuals and teams, enhancing productivity and accountability.
- Master time management principles to prioritize tasks, maintain focus, and achieve goals efficiently.
- Develop coaching and communication skills to motivate and empower team members.
- Apply intuitive and logical decision-making models to solve problems quickly and effectively.
- Improve creative thinking techniques for innovative solutions and better strategic planning.
This course ensures that delegates return to work with a clear roadmap for achieving personal and organizational goals while making smarter, faster decisions.
Training Methodology
The Goal Setting, Planning & Decision Making Training Course combines interactive learning, practical exercises, and real-world case studies to ensure maximum knowledge retention. Participants engage in thought-provoking discussions, hands-on activities, and scenario-based exercises to reinforce key concepts. This approach allows professionals to immediately apply techniques in their workplace for measurable improvements.
Through a mix of group exercises, individual assessments, and guided reflections, the course emphasizes practical application over theory. Delegates learn how to create actionable plans, set achievable goals, and make confident decisions under pressure. The methodology is tailored to ensure that each participant leaves with strategies that can be implemented immediately, transforming their approach to leadership, productivity, and personal development.
Who should Attend?
This training course is ideal for professionals looking to enhance their leadership capabilities, improve decision-making skills, and strengthen goal-setting and planning techniques. It is suitable for anyone aiming to work more strategically and achieve greater results, including:
- Team Leaders and Supervisors seeking to improve planning and goal-setting skills.
- Managers looking to strengthen decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
- Professionals aiming to master time management and prioritize tasks effectively.
- Individuals aspiring to lead teams through change and enhance workplace communication.
- Employees preparing for higher responsibilities who want practical leadership insights.
- Professionals seeking to increase personal productivity and professional impact.
This course equips participants with the skills to set clear goals, develop actionable plans, and make confident decisions, empowering both personal and organizational growth.
Course Outline
- Macro and Micro Perspectives: Clarifying your purpose, vision, mission, values, objectives, and associated tasks and activities.
- Leveraging the impact of visioning and visualization in defining and attaining goals.
- Utilizing the subconscious mind, beliefs, attitudes, and habits to strengthen goal-setting efforts.
- Choosing the right framework for you and your team: SMART Goals, HARD Goals, or BHAG Goals.
- Structuring organizational goals at strategic, tactical, and operational levels.
- Management by Objectives – Evaluating its advantages and limitations.
- Exploring the diverse advantages of thorough planning.
- Applying mind-mapping techniques for both creative and analytical thinking in project planning.
- Implementing best practices and technologies for project coordination and communication.
- Comparing traditional planning approaches with modern workplace planning methods.
- Developing single-use, standing, contingency, and crisis plans.
- Planning across timelines: daily, short-term, midterm, and long-term strategies.
- Working intelligently by maximizing the value of your time.
- Overcoming procrastination and establishing productive daily routines.
- Techniques for prioritizing, organizing, and scheduling tasks effectively.
- Time management strategies to adopt and common time wasters to eliminate.
- Understanding the ten fundamental principles of successful time management.
- Exploring the most effective time management tools and technologies available.
- Mastering the art and science of sound decision-making.
- Understanding personality types and their decision-making tendencies – strengths and limitations.
- Identifying the key qualities of an effective decision maker.
- Recognizing common decision-making pitfalls and strategies to avoid them.
- Utilizing logical and intuitive tools for effective decisions.
- Applying creativity and problem-solving methods to enhance outcomes.
- Empowered delegation: balancing team development with task completion.
- Exploring leadership styles suited for the modern workplace.
- Guiding teams effectively through periods of change.
- Inspiring and influencing others through persuasive presentations.
- Enhancing workplace communication through emotional intelligence.
- Recap and action planning based on the insights gained throughout the course.
Providers and Associations
Certificates
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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Our training courses will run for 5 hours per day. The standard daily timing is from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm including the coffee/tea breaks and lunch.
Our training courses courses are being held at five-star hotels in prime and iconic destinations across the globe. Cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dubai, Geneva, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, London, Houston, New York, Paris, Vienna, Zurich, etc.
Our cancellation policy varies depending on the circumstances presented. Generally, cancellations must be initiated in formal writing at least 14 days prior to the commencement date of the training course. Further, the option to shift an existing registration to another training course on a later date is possible. Otherwise, a full refund will be initiated.

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