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Introduction

Many Strategic Plans are created each year by spending weeks or months of activity to produce a detailed book of strategies that sits on the shelf for the next 12 months collecting dust.
A Strategic Plan is not a onetime event.
It is an ongoing effort with a lifecycle focused on enabling the organization to focus on its purpose and achieve its vision to satisfy its customers.
Every productive leader needs a plan to direct its thoughts and efforts in any organization.
The purpose of strategic planning is to encourage thinking about your organization's "big picture"-- its broad goals and priorities, and how well they are being achieved.
Unfortunately, the emphasis on possessing a strategic plan has come into some disrepute in recent years since research has revealed that many of them are never implemented and that others prove to be useless in organizations faced with rapidly changing, difficult to predict, environments.
Formal planning should be useful for strategic decision making. Formal planning seems valuable-for strategic decision making because so much money is spent on it. Some of the companies that use formal planning believe that it improves profits and growth.

Objectives

By the end of this course practitioners shall learn to:
• Learn how to document why the Organization exists and where the Organization is going.
• Understand the Lifecycle of “Living” Strategic Plan
• Learn how to adjust the Strategic Plan to reflect significant shifts in the Organizational environment.
• Learn how to differentiate between a Mission Statement and Vision Statement
• Learn techniques for developing a Mission and Vision the staff can follow
• Learn how to develop Objectives for the Strategic Plan
• Learn how to develop an Action Plan to describe how to achieve the Objectives
• Understand the techniques for keeping the Strategic Plan alive in the organization
• Apply tools to analyse the external environment of an organization (or community), leading to the assessment of opportunities and threats facing the organization (or community).
• Apply tools to analyse an organization’s (or community’s) own environment, in terms of resources, strengths and weaknesses, and core competences.
• Determine and evaluate the range of strategic options available to an organization (or community), given the above analyses.
• How to guarantee the optimum use to the resources.
• Developing Effective Communication Skills that help in building the quality of strategic planning and decision making.
• How to reduce a decision-making haphazard and personal.
• How to provide the psychological security to the workers.
• The recognition of a concept “the decision-making “.
• The knowledge of the decision-making kinds.
• The learning of the way of the solution of the problems.
• Finding the relation between the solutions of problems, decision-making, and strategic planning.
• The improvement of the contact skills.
• The way of the collective decision
• How be a productive leader
• To understand the different leadership styles and its roles in decision making.

Who Should Attend?

Top-level managers
• Middle level managers.
• Supervisors and every employee who has the opportunity to participate in
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• Executive Level Managers
• Corporate Change Agents
• Department Heads
• Change Management Team Members
• Corporate Planners
• Meeting Facilitators

Training Method

• Pre-assessment
• Live group instruction
• Use of real-world examples, case studies and exercises
• Interactive participation and discussion
• Power point presentation, LCD and flip chart
• Group activities and tests
• Each participant receives a 7” Tablet containing a copy of the presentation, slides and handouts
• Post-assessment

Program Support

This program is supported by:
* Interactive discussions
* Role-play
* Case studies and highlight the techniques available to the participants.

Course Agenda

The course agenda will be as follows:
• Technical Session 08.30-10.00 am
• Coffee Break 10.00-10.15 am
• Technical Session 10.15-12.15 noon
• Coffee Break 12.15-12.45 pm
• Technical Session 12.45-02.30 pm
• Course Ends 02.30 pm