Strategic Planning
September 17– September 21\ 2023 : Dubai
October 01 - October 05 \ 2023 : Dubai
October 01 - October 05 \ 2023 : Amman
November 12 - November 16\2023 : Kuwait
Introduction
If you and the people who work with you don’t understand where the company is going, they may all develop their own priorities and actually prevent you from getting where you need to be. Part of getting everyone on board is creating a strategic plan complete with the organization’s values, vision, and mission. Then, there’s the challenge of bringing these principles to life in a meaningful way that people can relate to.
This IACT Five-day course will help you describe what you want to do and get people where you want to go.
Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Þ Identify the values that support their company
Þ Define the vision for their company
Þ Write a mission statement that explains what the company’s purpose is
Þ Complete meaningful SWOT analyses
Þ Apply tools and techniques to create a strategic plan that directs the organization from the executive to the front line
Þ Implement, evaluate, and review a strategic plan
Þ Identify how related tools, such as the strategy map and balanced scorecard, can help them develop a strategic plan
Who Should Attend?
Þ CEO’s, COO’s, new and existing managers, team leads, operations managers, project managers, program managers, technical managers, chief officers, department heads, human resource managers, training managers, supervisors, and anyone aspiring to move into a leadership or management role.
Course Methodology
The course uses self-assessments and a wide mix of business cases that promote healthy discussions around the importance of managing multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities. Participants will benefit from role plays covering workplace challenges related to handling tasks, deadlines and priorities. They will learn how to deal with conflicts that may arise as a result. Interactive team exercises are also used with each team presenting their findings and comments.
Each module covers different aspects of using Game-Based Learning and Gamification in education. Coursework will incorporate your existing knowledge and experience and provide helpful learning environment with a good mix of theoretical and practical knowledge. On all outlines will apply Skills for Game-Based Learning and Gamification and practiced in hands-on, collaborative way within an international group setting.
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:
- 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
- 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
- 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
- 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions
Pre and Post Test
Outline
DAY 1:
Strategic Thinking and External Analysis
Þ Definitions of strategy and strategic planning
Þ Why are strategy and strategic planning important
Þ Understanding the main frameworks for strategic analysis
Þ Private and public sector strategies – Similarities and Differences
Þ External analysis - Understanding and Analysing Business Attractiveness
Þ Analysing customers and benchmarking your own strategic position
Þ How attractive is the game that we have chosen to play
DAY 2:
Internal Analysis and Fusion into Strategic Choice
Þ The interface and balance of external and internal analysis
Þ Internal analysis: Financial
Þ Internal analysis: Non-financial
Þ The concept and practicalities of the “balanced scorecard”
Þ Diagnosing and analysing strategic problems and opportunities
Þ Fusion of analysis into strategic choices - SWOT and the Strategy Matrix
Þ How well are we playing the game that we have chosen to play
DAY 3 Strategic Plans and the Relevance of Alliances and Joint Ventures
Þ Review of the tools used so far
Þ The content of a strategy: Avoiding “Paralysis by Analysis”
Þ Putting a strategic plan together – the 5-page framework
Þ Strategies for alliances and joint ventures
Þ Management of alliances and joint ventures
DAY 4 :
Global Strategy, Team Building and the Management of Internal Communication
Þ The essence of globalisation and global strategy
Þ Globalisation – The Strategic Dimension
Þ Globalisation – The Organisational Dimension
Þ Globalisation – The Human Dimension
Þ How to build and manage a strategic planning team
Þ Communicating strategy through the organisation
Þ Gaining your team’s commitment and buy-in to the strategy
DAY 5 :
Strategic Implementation and Getting the Value out of Strategy
Þ Alignment of strategy, culture, structure and people
Þ Effective execution - Converting Strategic Analysis and Planning into Action
Þ Aligning and linking strategy with operational objectives
Þ Implementation – Getting Practical Things Done
Þ Creating tomorrow’s organisation out of today’s organisation
Þ Strategic planning at a personal level
Þ Overview: The complete strategy process
Þ Summary and conclusions - The Corporate And Individual Value Of Strategic Planning
Fees:
The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is:
3.750USD$
Schedule:
08:30 – 10:15 First Session
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:15 Second Session
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:00 Third Session