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 Course overview 

Strategic planning assists you to establish priorities on what you will accomplish in the future, It also forces you to make choices on what you will do    and what you will not do

This course pulls the entire organization together around a single game plan for execution.

              If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail – be    proactive about the future

        Strategic planning improves performance and productivity. It counters excessive inward and short-term thinking.

              Solve the major issues at a macro level and communicate to everyone

           Course Objective

                     –       Clearly  define the complete strategic planning process

–        Explain how to create and execute a strategic plan

–        Identify the various steps in the strategic planning process

–        Initiate and manage a strategic planning process

–        Determine appropriate tools for strategic planning and goal setting

–        Understand strategies for evaluation

–        Initiate community support and involvement in the process

–        Develop communication strategies to promote the strategic planning  and goal orientation process

–        Identify partners to be involved in the strategic planning process

–        Participate in the strategic planning process

–        Provide a common model that the entire    organization can follow

Course Outline

·         Strategic Planning Process

·         What a strategic plan should do

·         Strategic Planning Model

·         Pre-Requisites to Planning

·         Assessment Model:

·         Why create a baseline?

·         Gap Analysis

·         Major Components of the Strategic Plan / Down to Action

·         Strategic visioning

·         Developing Goals

·         Examples of Goals

·         Goals vs. Objectives

·         Examples of Objectives

·         What are Action Plans?

·         Characteristics of Action Plans

·         Action Plan Execution

·         Measurement Template

·         Examples of Measurements

·         Lead Indicators

·         Examples of Measurements

·         Lag Indicators

·         Targets

·         Continuous Feedback through the Balanced Scorecard

·         Performance Management

·         Link Budgets to Strategic Plan

·         Visualisation

·         Goal setting and orientation

·         Goal Setting

·         The Three P's

·         S.M.A.R.T Goals

·         Prioritising your goals