| Management Development
Strategic Planning and Creative Thinking
Overview: 3 Days with 1.8 CEUs
Today more than ever, organizations must capitalize on a
changing business environment, improve profitability and overall
productivity, formulate and implement a planning process,
and make better strategic decisions. This strategic planning
program will equip you and your staff with the skills you
need to solve one of the most difficult problems facing management
today – how to create a strategic plan which gives specific
direction, yet flexible enough to remain competitive in today’s
environmental and economic changes.
How attendees will benefit:
- Gain knowledge of the most current strategic planning
processes and tools
- Develop and translate a mission statement into reality
- Learn how to recognize and overcome organizational barriers
to planning
- Learn how to involve the right people in the planning
process and gain their commitment
- Effectively sell your strategic plan to senior management
- Learn how to use creative thinking to dig beyond surface
solutions
- Learn how to use measurability and verifiability to control
the accuracy of the strategic plan and know when to change
it
Some of the topics to be covered:
- Understand the planning process and its critical interface
with an organization’s success
- Link strategic and operational planning
- Assess how your plan will contribute to shareholder value
- Identify those projects which should be part of the strategic
plan and their priority of order
- Formulate critical review points identifying opportunities
for course correction
Who should attend?
Business professionals, project managers, senior management
and strategic planners who want a solid foundation in strategic
planning and creative thinking. This is an excellent time
for divisional and functional managers to join with senior
management to develop a team approach to new creative thinking
and convert it into a dynamic strategic plan.
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