Management. Lift your career and your organisation.

Learn the concepts, skills and knowledge required to develop and implement an effective operational plan – one that supports and achieves the strategic objectives of your organisation.

Using a structured systematic approach, this one-day course will show you how to turn strategic goals into specific sequenced activities. You will learn how to allocate appropriate resources and how to budget and allocate time to these activities. You will also learn how to allocate your team members to appropriate tasks, building team capability.

In building your operational plan, you will learn how to consult with appropriate stakeholders. Utilising your stakeholders and a range of other strategies you will also learn how to identify the risks associated with the plan and develop comprehensive contingency plans.

Apart from developing an operational plan, you will learn how to implement the plan and ensure that appropriate monitoring processes are in place to ensure that underperformance is identified quickly and rectified.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• develop operational plans
• consulting with stakeholders
• plan for and allocate resources
• allocate appropriate costing and time frames to the plan
• match team member capability and build that capability over time
• identify risks and develop contingency plans
• monitor performance aspects of the plan.

Content

Operational planning

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