Strategic Planning and Management Course
Business strategy. Plan and secure success.
In this strategic planning course, you will learn the strategic thinking concepts, skills and knowledge required to define the vision and mission for an organisation. You will learn how to make the critical decisions required to establish the strategic objectives and set the strategic direction for your organisation.
This course looks at the analytical skills required and the various tools available to design the most appropriate strategy. We will show you how to structure strategy so that managers can turn the strategy into operational and project plans that can be implemented within the budgetary and resource limitations of the organisation. Additionally, you will gain an insight into how an innovation strategy may be required to bring about the required future direction.
We will use a systematic approach to understand where the organisation is now, where the organisation wants to be and why, and how to successfully get from the present to the future.
Outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- create an effective vision and mission statement
- design appropriate values to support the mission and vision
- follow a structured process to create an effective strategy
- analyse the environment your organisation operates in
- exercise critical decision making
- develop sound strategic goals
- develop a clear, implementable strategy
- develop a strategy that challenges assumptions.
Content
Strategic thinking and planning
- What is strategic planning
- The importance of strategic planning
- The benefits
- Good and bad strategy
The strategic planning process
- The steps involved in creating an effective strategy
Mission, vision and values
- Creating a mission
- Creating a vision
- The importance of organisational values
- Developing appropriate values
The environment
- Competitive lifecycle
- Stakeholder analysis
- SWOT analysis
- PESTEL analysis
- Porters five competitive forces
- Strategic issues
- Internationalisation
Developing the strategy
- Effective decision making
- Balancing capability and resources
- Establishing strategic goals
- Developing supporting strategies
- The balanced scorecard
- Evaluating strategies
Innovation and strategy
- Redefining the organisation
- Challenging assumptions
- Innovation regarding the customer, product and business model
- Creating an innovative culture to create strategy
Intended audience
Designed to suit those who are moving into, or relatively new to the ‘strategic planning’ arena. It will also benefit anyone who is involved with strategic planning, and are after some clarification and direction to improve their strategic thinking and planning skills.
Prerequisites
None
Delivery modes
- Face-to-face, presenter-taught workshop
- Online workshop via the platform Zoom
Delivery style
The Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) states that one of the most valuable resources in adult education is the learner themselves. This course has been designed to actively involve the learner throughout the day. It includes:
- interactive presentations
- group work and discussion
- structured strategy development activities
- strategy based case studies.
Materials
Course materials are provided electronically using Dropbox
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Class schedule
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Featured facilitators
Darren Lott
Darren has worked in a diverse range of roles in both the public and private sectors and has been running a successful consultancy for over 15 years. His key areas of expertise are training and...
What others say
I have been looking for a course to give me some introduction to 'business strategy' until I found this one. The facilitator, Darren, was very helpful and provide us with great examples. Overall, I recommend this course to those who want to understand and to develop the strategic plan within an organisation.
- Farshad Oveissi
Fantastic facilitator! Not only did he have an enormous amount of experience and knowledge in the space, allowing him to provide real world examples, but he was also a great presenter. He used mixed models of learning, set an appropriate pace and provided an environment very suited to learning.
- Arlen Wilcox
Facilitated at a great pace, drawing on experience from the room. The course was both instructional and interactive.
- Morgana Waters