| Aspects of Leadership Applicable to This Course

Our Strategic Business Planning course teaches participants an effective strategic planning process that shows participants how to craft a clear, compelling strategic plan for their organization. Participants will:

• Understand their market, their place in it, and how they compete versus others
• Set direction through clear articulation of vision, mission, and strategic filters
• Define their organization’s current and desired future state
• Clearly articulate the organization’s core competencies
• Define a prioritized set of strategic filters to evaluate strategic initiatives
• Inventory, evaluate, prioritize, and sequence initiatives to support their strategy
• Allocate resources to initiatives based on priority and need
• Package their work into a compelling strategic plan

The program is pragmatic in that participants learn the strategic planning method while simultaneously applying it to their real-world business needs. The target audience for this course is the leadership team of a business, business unit, or organization or individuals in roles that require them to define their organization’s strategy. The benefits of this course are:

• Participants learn a strategic planning process they can replicate each year thereby making their plans more compelling and rigorous with less effort than ad hoc planning efforts
• An efficient means of gathering and processing key inputs for strategic planning
• Better strategic alignment, prioritization, and resource allocation
• Clarity and focus which eliminates low value initiatives and drives critical ones

Please contact us to arrange for this course to be trained at your organization.