Corporate Strategic Planning and Implementation

Programme description & objectives

Programme description & objectives This program is designed and geared towards providing leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximize their own and their team’s creative potential in a strategic context. On the other hand, a well-implemented strategic planning and formulation process provides the vision, direction and goals for the organization. Here, it is expected that the operational implementation process translates strategies into the everyday execution tactics of the business that will ultimately produce the outcomes defined by the strategy. The focus of this program will be on thinking in different ways. Participants should be prepared to move out of their comfort zone and experiment with new ways of creating and communicating an inspiring strategic plan and leadership vision. Efforts will be made to demystify the frequently misunderstood concept of ‘strategy’. Whilst focusing on the analytical disciplines on which a successful strategy is based, the program also centers on strategic planning as a value-adding process which harnesses the leader’s and the team’s ability to combine analysis with creative thinking and enables ideas and plans to be nurtured through to reality. In a nutshell, the program is out to: - Demonstrate how to balance analytical and creative thinking plans and decisions - Ensure an understanding of how to discover and focus the creative capabilities of teams and individuals - Create an understanding of the linkage between operational and strategic management - Align individuals’ own responsibilities and objectives with the strategy of your organization - Improve personal leadership and management competencies Using a range of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual visioning exercises, case studies and syndicate discussions, it is expected that by the end of this program, delegates would be able to: - Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential - Communicate your vision in refreshing and engaging ways - Define the concepts of strategy and strategic plans - Understand and explain visionary thinking as part of the strategic process and apply strategic planning to your own management issues - Place your own part of the organization within the overall context of corporate strategy - Gain confidence in managing your own contribution to strategic implementation - Learn that effective and successful strategy planning, formulation and implementation extend much more than the range of ugly excel spreadsheets to beautifully bound books.