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Strategic Planning, Development & Implementation

Introduction

Strategic Planning, Development & Implementation

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Develop leaders three key strategic agendas: Intellectual, Managerial, and Behavioural.
• Enhance and improve their and their organizations strategic thinking and ability to envision powerful strategic futures.
• Generate and support practical strategic thinking at all organizational levels through the strategic training and development process.
• Identify the most efficient balance of Operational Excellence and Breakthrough Strategic Performance.
• Identify crucial strategic issues and opportunities and prioritize them based on their capacity to enable actual value creation.
• Lead and motivate teams and businesses in diverse, turbulent, and complex environments through strategic planning facilitation training.
• Encourage their people to think differently, work out new initiatives, and innovate.
• Motivate people towards the strategic light on the hill and change their environment to support new strategic initiatives.
• Find new approaches to old problems in their organizations strategies.
• Implement a plan using all the resources at their disposal.
• Interpret the internal and external forces shaping the future.
• Develop a practical strategic roadmap through a clear vision and statement of strategic intent.
• Identify the competencies and capabilities of strategically agile and effective organizations.
• Command respect and develop a culture or climate that supports your initiatives through training strategic planning.

Targeted Competencies

• Analytical strategic thinking
• Strategic visioning
• Communicating strategic
• Effective implementation planning
• Displaying strategic leadership
• Strategic leadership
• Motivating and influencing people
• Making the changes necessary to advance your plan
• Develop new behaviors in your people through how employee development practices are strategic.

Course Content

Unit 1: Understanding The Strategic Environment

• Understanding the strategic leadership agenda – intellect, management, and behaviors
• Recognizing and interpreting forces in the strategic environment
• Understanding strategic inflection points and strategic scenarios
• Analyzing and prioritizing strategic issues
• Formulating strategic vision and expressing strategic intent
• Developing a strategic roadmap through strategic planning training

Unit 2: Understanding Strategic Models And Paradigms

• The strategic journey – standard models and frameworks for strategic thinking (from Ansoff to Hamel via Porter and Mintzberg)
• Recognizing strategic horizons and using the 7S framework
• Recognizing and developing the characteristics of strategic agility
• Understanding and leveraging strategic competencies and skills

Unit 3: Effective Strategic Implementation

• Strategic implementation tools and frameworks
• Structures and systems for strategic agility and performance
• Monitoring and adjustment
• Measurement, analysis, and knowledge management in strategic implementation plan

Unit 4: Strategic Leadership

• Preparing for the future
• Effective styles and practices for strategic leadership
• Recognizing, analyzing, and developing the strategic leadership styles used by you and others
• Developing inspiration and motivation
• Communicating the roadmap and gathering support through learning and development a strategic plan

Unit 5: Driving Strategic Performance & Success

• Transforming the organization to enable strategic success.
• Balancing the focus on performance and strategy.
• Spreading leadership capabilities throughout the organization.
• Maximizing organizational learning and knowledge transfer to embed strategic success in the strategic planning course.