Strategic Planning Skills for Managers
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The skills you need for performance at the highest level
Strategic plans are often misunderstood and under-utilized. But organizations that take strategic planning seriously have a much higher level of success. Strategic plans evaluate opportunities and risks from all perspectives. It guides the direction,
focuses resources, and sets goals for all levels of the organization.
Whether you have overall responsibility for strategic planning, or need to understand how to apply it in your business area - this strategic planning training will ensure you learn the right approach. One that provides confidence and clarity
for the direction of your organization, and can be implemented for superior performance.
In this strategic planning course, you will learn how to:
- Set clear purpose for your strategic planning process
- Choose the appropriate methods and tools
- Apply tools and processes for collecting and assessing essential information
- Apply tools for assessing options and making decisions
- Methods for engaging others process, as and when appropriate
- Define clear, actionable goals for implementing the strategy
How we ensure your success
The curriculum has been carefully designed by an experienced mentor. We know that you need more than theory and best practices. So your instructor includes lots of examples based on real situations. You will get lots of practical tools and tips, and exercises for you to try them out.
Practical, low-cost tools and techniques
Case studies and exercises
Access to an experienced mentor
Certificate of Completion
Our approach to learning combines knowledge (through video based lectures), as well as exercises where you will apply tools and techniques through case studies. The application is necessary to truly develop skills that you can apply in the workplace.
At the end of each section, you will have a quiz such that you can evaluated how well you met the learning objectives for that section.
You can then go back and review any areas as needed (or contact your instructor with questions!). And at the end of the course, there is a detailed self assessment to determine how well you met the overall learning objectives of the course. You have
unlimited access to the course, so can go back at any time to review and strengthen areas.
Start now with Strategic Planning for Managers
Outline
This courses will provide participants with the knowledge and tools based on industry best practices. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
1) Develop an effective strategic planning framework based on best practices.- Describe the purpose, components and terminology of Strategic Planning
- Define the objectives and desired outcomes for your Strategic Planning Process
- Identify when and how different stakeholders will be involved
- Collect external information (opportunities and threats) based on PEST and Porter’s 5 forces of industry
- Collect internal information (strengths and weaknesses) based on core competencies and value chain
- Conduct an effective SWOT analysis
- Develop and assess scenarios
- Define the decision making approach
- Develop the Strategic Plan report, including an Action Plan
Learn at your own pace! Includes a certificate of completion
Speaker/s
Debbie Narver (BSc MBA MScIB) is the founder and principal consultant of Narver Management Consulting, located on beautiful Vancouver Island, Canada. She specializes in organizational development, and in particular, online facilitation with diverse and geographically dispersed teams to develop creative solutions to complex business problems.
Debbie is an experienced manager, having spent 16 years working in the B.C. Public Service, where she transitioned from technical to leadership roles. She participated in and lead multi-stakeholder projects, often during times of major organizational restructuring. As such, she brings her real world experience to help managers with difficult problems.
Based on her education, leadership training and experience, Debbie provides training and professional development support for supervisors, managers and business leaders to take their management skills to the next level. Her training style focuses on developing competency through applied exercises and reflections. She uses a variety of teaching approaches to meet the different learning styles of students.
Debbie is also the author of 'Solving the REAL Business the Right Way: A Practical Guide for Business Leaders' and 'How to Manage Culturally Diverse Work Teams' (Amazon, Kindle and print edition). She is the lead researcher and author of 'Cultural Diversity and the Perceived Performance of MBA Teams published by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (June 1, 2010).
Managers of today face increasing challenging with complex, diverse and distributed operations. And there is increasing pressure for higher levels of quality, productivity, innovation and sustainability. NMC has responded with the NMC STRATEGIC MANAGER - a blend of training, facilitation and consulting services to support Managers with specialized skills and techniques. In particular, our online strategic management training and support services provide flexibility and convenience for those in disperse locations and/or busy schedules. And we specialize in techniques for managing culturally diverse teams.
Knowing that each situation is different, we provide services that can be integrated and customized to each Managers needs. This includes online training, facilitation and consulting services on strategic management topics, including:
- Effective Strategic Planning
- Change Leadership and Management
- Advanced Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Optimizing Results with Performance Planning and Management
- Cross Cultural Leadership
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