A strategic plan is a valuable asset when combined with both guided implementation and a sustainment plan. It’s the engine that will drive your organization toward a goal or successful change initiative. Your strategic plan without execution and sustainment is a wasted effort.

This unique program introduces elements not found in other strategic planning programs, as it provides an end-to-end approach to the strategic planning process at every touchpoint, and bridges the gap between strategy, execution and sustainability. This seminar provides a systematic framework in which structure follows strategy.

Program Benefits:

• Discover a forward-thinking winning competitive strategy, superb organizational execution, and the resilience required for sustainability
• Establish a process to embed your strategy into the daily life and operations of the entire company
• Hear tales from the field led by implementation experts from McKinsey & Company
• Create a culminating project that will have you leave with a roadmap for launching strategic plans that meet your organization’s goals

Topics Covered:

• Frameworks that close the gap between the goals of different teams and departments to successfully execute innovation across an organization
• Developing strategic plan and change initiative roadmaps for sustained value
• Guided implementation to operationalize strategy
• Organizational alignment and adoption
• Strategies for sustaining and renewing plan

This program is designed for team leaders, change agents, project managers, and strategy implementers who are focused on the execution and sustainability of a strategic plan.

DAY 1

Strategy is Everyone’s Business

• Organization’s Vision, Mission, Values and Goals
• Using Scenarios to Envisage Possible Futures
• Assessing and Managing Risk
• Factors Influencing Decision-making
• Aligning Individual Tasks and Behaviors to Organizational Goals

DAY 2

Strategic Planning

• Using PESTLE to Analyze External Factors
• How to balance the needs of diverse stakeholders?
• Analyzing the Capabilities of your Own Organization
• Undertaking Valuable SWOT Analyses
• Turning Analysis into Strategic Plans

DAY 3

Overcoming the Challenges of Strategy Implementation

• Develop Staff Engagement – hearts and minds
• Make Use of Varied Communication Methods to Raise Strategic Awareness
• Learn to Link Individual Goals and Tasks to Organizational Objectives
• Use Measurement to Track Performance and Predict likely Outcomes
• Understand How a Learning Organization Links Detailed and Messy Implementation to Strategy Development

DAY 4

Developing Strategic Leadership Skills

• Understanding Barriers to Change
• How to motivate staff to deliver high performance?
• Developing Your Leadership Skills: Situational Leadership
• Using Coaching Skills to Deliver Higher Performance
• Develop Your Interpersonal Communication Skills

DAY 5

Ensuring Organizational Procedures Support Strategy

• Recognize the Dynamic Tension between Change /Innovation vs. Compliance
• Recognize Elements of Organizational Culture which help Effective Strategy Deployment
• Learn to Make the Performance Appraisal an Effective Tool in Delivering High Performance
• How to ensure the strategic planning process delivers effective outcomes?
• Next Steps

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.