Strategic Planning, Communication, Measurement and Implementation

Course Information

  • the date

28/04/2025

  • Duration

10 days

  • The city

Amsterdam

  • Cost
  • Type

in-house

Course details

Powerful strategic leadership is central to the future accomplishment of any organisation. This begins with defining a clear strategic vision – setting out the leadership team’s strategic intent for the organisation and its various businesses. This then needs to be translated into an agenda for action – not just a ‘strategic plan’ but a set of guidelines or a road map clearly setting out where the business needs to go and empowering managers at all levels to make the multitude of decisions that they need to make in the clear comprehension of where the business is heading.

In this extensive two-week course, both strategic leaders and first line experts will participate in how to enhance, implement and structure the changes important to make a new strategy, vision or mission work successfully in today’s dynamic climate.

Week one focuses on the advancement of the centre strategies and plan to make the organisation achieve its vision or targets, while week two drills further into the organisation to create techniques that get the workforce “on-board” with the changes and have them participate in working out the problems and implementing the new strategies. It is unequivocally suggested that strategic leaders attend both weeks.

If you prefer to attend one part 'One week' of the course, get in touch with us, please.

At the end of this Strategic Planning, Communication, Measurement and Implementation Training course, you will be able to :

  • Understand the concepts and the differences between strategy, planning, goals, and tactics
  • Demonstrate how the operating unit’s strategic plan contributes to the organization’s strategic plan
  • Master the steps in building a useful strategic plan
  • Recognize and review their options during the process to optimize their results
  • Create clear, simple communication tools
  • Build a solid strategic plan that is unique to their organization
  • Develop a realistic implementation plan
  • Measure their results to make sure the organization is achieving its objectives
  • Obtain “Best practice” planning tools
  • Plan process effectively leading to more accurate measurement of success
  • Make better decision on more choices
  • Improve efficiency in the planning and implementation process reducing wasted time

Strategic Planning, Communication, Measurement and Implementation Training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Those are involved in strategic and business planning or have aspirations to rise to the next level
  • Managers at all levels who want to develop their planning skills
  • New Managers who wish to gain more strategic perspective in relation to their work
  • Middle/Senior Managers aiming to develop their strategic planning skills, to achieve better results and gain influence in the planning process

Course outline

Week 1 : Strategic Planning, Development & Implementation

Understanding the Strategic Environment

  • Understanding the strategic leadership competencies – intellect, management and behaviors
  • Recognizing and interpreting forces in the strategic environment
  • Understanding strategic inflection points and strategic scenarios
  • Formulating strategic vision and expressing strategic intent
  • Analyzing and prioritizing strategic issues

Understanding Strategic Models and Paradigms

  • The strategic journey – common models and frameworks for strategic thinking
  • Developing a strategic road map
  • Recognizing and developing the characteristics of strategic agility
  • Understanding and leveraging strategic competences and skills
  • Defining the outcomes

Effective Strategic Implementation

  • Strategic implementation tools and frameworks
  • Structures and systems for strategic agility and performance
  • Identifying strategic horizons and using the 7S framework
  • Analyzing the key elements for implementation
  • Measurement, analysis and knowledge management

Strategic Leadership

  • Preparing for the future
  • Effective styles and practices for strategic leadership
  • Recognizing, analyzing and developing the strategic leadership styles used by you and others
  • Developing inspiration and motivation
  • Communicating the road map and gathering support

Driving Strategic Performance & Success

  • Transforming the organization to enable strategic success
  • Monitoring and adjustment
  • Balancing the focus on performance and strategy
  • Spreading leadership capabilities throughout the organization
  • Maximizing organizational learning and knowledge transfer to embed strategic success

Week 2 : Strategy, Leadership Innovation

Encouraging a Creative Climate at Work

  • Innovative leadership for excellent performance
  • The Critical mass for change and innovation
  • Innovation VS Constant Improvement
  • How a Leader Creates a Climate of Innovation
  • Case Study on Most Innovative Companies
  • Innovation and current business breakthroughs

Gaining the Participation of the Workforce

  • The G.E. “Workout” Strategy
  • Developing Creative Solutions for Strategies
  • Gaining the “Buy-In” from the workforce
  • Overcoming Paradigms
  • Dealing with Organizational “Drift”
  • Case Study on Gaining Empowerment

Leading on the creative edge

  • Developing Creative Potential in People and Teams
  • Understanding Creative People
  • Convergent & Divergent Thinking Skills
  • Motivating Creative Individuals at work
  • Incubating ideas
  • Interacting creatively
  • Converting expenses to assets using creativity

Creating a Motivating Climate for Higher Productivity

  • The Ten Key Elements to Setting up new Missions
  • Setting Goals and Targets Creatively
  • Creating a “Sense of Significance”
  • Rewarding Performance
  • The Four Step “Pygmalion” theory
  • Generational Motivators

Driving Strategic Change

  • Managing the Change Process
  • Kotter’s Change Management Techniques
  • Communicating with a Sense of Urgency
  • The Downside of Change
  • Creating a climate of Constant Change
  • Successful techniques for Changing People

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