Strategic Planning & Management

Course Description

In this strategic planning course, you will learn the strategic thinking concepts, skills, and knowledge required to define the vision and mission of an organization. You will learn how to make the critical decisions required to establish the strategic objectives and set the strategic direction for your organization.
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 organization. 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 organization is now, where the organization wants to be and why, and how to successfully get from the present to the future.

Intended audience

Strategic planning and management training is a 10-day course designed for:
1- Directors and senior executives
2- Strategic leaders
3- Members of boards
4- Quality managers
5- Senior and mid-level managers
6- Program managers
7- Supervisors
8- Team leaders
9- Financial officers
10- General managers

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:
1- Determine strategic planning problems
2- Develop a competitive strategic plan
3- Distinguish main analytical and theoretical methods associated with strategic planning
4- Determine developing strategic models and produce ideas on how they can be used to their corporation
5- create an effective vision and mission statement
6- design appropriate values to support the mission and vision
7- follow a structured process to create an effective strategy
8- analyses the environment your organization operates in
9- exercise critical decision making
10- develop sound strategic goals
11- develop a clear, implementable strategy
12- Develop a strategy that challenges assumptions.
13- Principles of Successful Leadership

Delivery modes:

– Face-to-face, presenter-taught workshop
– Online workshop via the platform Zoom
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

Certification

Program participants who successfully complete the course are issued a certificate of Completion from Global institute of Projects Management & Development – GIPMD