Course description
Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is the first crucial step in ensuring an organization’s long-term success. However, successful strategic planning is not a standalone process; it's a dynamic, ongoing effort that encompasses various facets of an organization. To truly guarantee strategic alignment, business projects, processes, and major operations must harmonize to contribute to the organization's sustained success and benefit its stakeholders.
Our Strategic Planning course offers a comprehensive framework that equips participants with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the complexities of strategic planning. It goes beyond the creation of a plan, encompassing the entire strategic lifecycle. Participants will learn how to define strategic priorities, enhance decision-making processes, formulate a robust plan, effectively guide its execution, maintain continual alignment with evolving objectives, and proactively address common pitfalls and challenges associated with strategic planning.
This strategic planning framework is a valuable asset for professionals at all career levels. Whether you are just starting your journey or are a seasoned leader, this course provides actionable insights to help you contribute more effectively to your organization's mission and goals. By mastering the art of strategic planning, you can steer your organization toward a future of sustainable growth and success.
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Training content
Participants of the Strategic Planning course will learn:
- What is strategy
- The 5 Key phases of the strategic planning process, Assess, Design, Build, Implement, and Manage
- How to select and formulate a strategy for your organization or business unit
- What constitutes good/bad strategies
- Strategy vs Tactics
- A framework for conducting strategic plans
- How to effectively conduct intelligence gathering and due diligence
- The use of decision tools (2x2 Matrices, SWOT, PESTLE, and Five Forces Analysis)
- The Nine Point strategy
- Common downfalls in planning and execution
- Key strategy execution questions
- How organization and architecture effect execution
- Keys to implementation
- Planning for and dealing with Change
- The role of people
- The three levels of strategic alignment
- Alignment and Realignment
- How to be a Leader of strategy and a steward of strategy
- Understand and Manage Risk associated with your strategy
Participants will also receive a helpful worksheet template to apply to their strategic plans.
Why choose LBS?
38+ years helping individuals and teams achieve breakthrough performance
100% client satisfaction
Team of experts and practitioners in the fields of human behavior and organizational dynamics.
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This class would be useful for teams that want to work on their strategy while learning about strategy
Instructor taught in a way that made the class useful to someone new to strategic planning but also extremely worthwhile for a someone seasoned in strategic development
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Lausanne Business Solutions (LBS)
Lausanne Business Solutions (LBS) provides research-based and expert delivered trainings in a variety of strategic employee and leadership development areas. Classes emphasize active-learning and are highly experiential. Our trainings facilitate real behavioral change and deliver increased individual and team performance....
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