Strategic Planning Workshops to Fit Every Client’s Needs
Fundamentals of Strategic Planning – One Day Workshop
Objectives:
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe strategic planning and enumerate the common components of a strategic plan
- Describe the role that strategic planning plays in enabling long-term success for any organization
- Identify how strategic planning differs from other forms of organizational planning
- Develop strategic-thinking skills in themselves and others
- Work through the key stages of the strategic-planning process:
(1) Assess the current environment
(2) Develop a vision of the future and define key governing values/beliefs
(3) Identify strategic issues and develop action goals/plans
(4) Implement, monitor, and review the plan
- Identify methods for involving key stakeholders in strategy formulation and
implementation
- Describe common obstacles to strategic planning and ways to over-come them
Advanced Issues in Strategic Planning and Thinking – One Day Workshop
Objectives:
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the difference between strategy formulation and strategy implementation
- Develop a shared vision for their organization
- Identify the core values or guiding principles that support the shared vision and accomplish the strategic agenda
- Conduct a SWOT analysis that provides a better understanding of the organization’s internal and external environment
- Select the key strategic issues that become the organization’s strategic agenda
- Develop action plans that move the organization toward its vision and mission
- Deal effectively with emergent issues and an unknowable future
Developing Strategic Thinkers – Half-Day Workshop
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will be able to:
Objectives:
- Describe the role that strategic thinking plays in the long-term success of the organization
- Identify the competencies needed for strategic thinking
- Develop a mindmap that identifies key strategic issues that face the organization today and are likely to affect it in the future
- Develop a personal plan for adjusting current and future decisions and behaviors to those of a strategic thinker
Problem Solving and Decision Making – One Day Workshop
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will be able to:
Objectives:
- Identify common obstacles to effective Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Apply the principles of effective Problem Solving and Decision Making to their own situation
- Describe the seven-step model for strategic problem solving
- Apply that model to a specific situation
- Write a clear problem statement
- Describe the seven-step model for strategic decision making
- Discuss strategies and methods for involving diverse stakeholders in strategic Problem Solving and Decision Making
Tools for Strategic Problem Solving and Decision Making – One Day Workshop
As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will be able to:
Objectives:
- Identify more than a dozen tools and methods for strategic Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Practice and apply at least six of the tools to the issues, challenges, or problems currently facing the organization
- Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of the tools
- Identify future opportunities for applying the tools to their own situation, challenges, and opportunities