Name: Implementing Your Strategic Vision Through Practical Planning Training Course
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Course Outline

Day 1: Introduction and Background

Introduction – planning as leadership
Business Planning as a cross-business process – Train hard, fight easy!
Bottom-up and Top-down planning approaches
Resources and facilities required for successful planning
Financial Planning and Business Planning
The importance of practical delivery – where the rubber meets the road!

Day 2: The Planning Workshop – Walk-through of the Fishbone© Method

Using the Fishbone^© approach to shape the problem for an imaginary client described in student case study material
Appraisal of the plan start point
Formulation of the desired end-state
Analysis of the terrain of travel
Planning for Effectiveness
Planning for Efficiency

Day 3: Using the Planner’s Toolkit

Porter’s Five Forces analysis
SWOT and Force-field analysis
The Boston Matrix
The Ansoff Matrix
The Communications Matrix^©
The Balanced Scorecard

Day 4: Plan Delivery through Projects

PRINCE2 programme/project management
Plan delivery and governance
Engaging and motivating the organization’s resources
Business Planning as part of Total Quality Management and Lean
Measurement and Display
Building a planning culture

Day 5: From Concept to Practical Reality

Communicating the plan to stakeholders
Stepping stones, trip-ups and milestones
Resourcing the projects
Monitoring and celebrating success
Continuous improvement of the process
The proof of the pudding

Day 6: Strategic Challenges Faced by Leaders

Strategy Development and Strategic Planning
Understanding Stakeholder Interests – A Compromise
Life cycles: business, product, market
Achieving business sustainability, the value chain
Popular strategy tools - understanding their limits
Understanding the business environment

Day 7: New Approaches to Strategy Development

Strategizing is a process
Strategy Tools: imagining possible futures
Examples: how CEO’s use strategy tools
Zoom in, zoon out – information needed for emergent, agile strategies
Red & Blue Ocean strategies – role of competitors
Innovation: Attitudes to failure

Day 8: Strategic Leaders: Influence and Communication

Vision, Mission and Values – just words?
Elements of strategic management
Globalisation and its impact on Strategy Formulation
Tactics for securing and keeping customers
Communicating priorities and objectives
Using influence to achieve outcomes

Day 9: What you Measure is What you Get

Using the Balanced Scorecard as a strategic measurement tool
Strategy mapping
Developing KPI’s to deliver corporate objectives
Measuring past performance, predicting future results
Business processes, management reviews and improvement opportunities
People plus data, leads to understanding, knowledge and tactics

Day 10: Personal Challenge - Plan to Act

Planning, the key to better outcomes
Addressing barriers to action
Gaining commitment
Leading teams
Team exercise – making decisions, taking action
Reflections on learning, personal development plans

Certificate

COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

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