Strategic Planning Workshop

About this course

Program Overview

A major strategy to recover from the effects of the pandemic is for organizations to come up with doable strategic plans.   Strategic planning is generally defined as an organizational management activity that is used to set priorities, focus energy and resources, strengthen operations, ensure that employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals, establish agreement around intended outcomes/results, and assess and adjust the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment.   For organizations to cope with the disruptive VUCAD business environment they must have a comprehensive strategic plan that will define their strategic directions and decisions on allocating their resources. Organizations must have control mechanisms to guide the implementation of their strategies.
Consequently, an unclear, much more, absence of a strategic plan may lead to business failure. If organizations fail to anticipate or prepare for fundamental changes, they may lose valuable lead time and momentum to address them effectively. As a result, the lack of a strategic plan negatively impacts the attitude of an organization’s team. This shall result in morale problems due to the fact that the future is uncertain, unpredictable and/or out of control.

Program objectives
This course will enable participants to facilitate their organization’s strategic planning sessions. Specifically, the participants will:

• Extensively discuss and simulate the strategic planning process using the systems approach of environmental scanning, system analysis, and integration
• Know how to develop Mission, Vision, and Objectives Alignment
• Learn Competitor Analysis, SWOT, Strategy Maps, and other essential tools to properly conduct a successful strategic planning process
• Develop simulated strategies and action plans
   

Program contents
1.Organizing the Strategic Planning Sessions

• Attendees
• Activities: Pre and Post 
• Requirements

2.Developing the Framework of Strategic Planning

• Mission
• Vision 
• Objectives

3.Ways to SCAN the Business Environment

• Opportunities and Threats (OT of SWOT)
• SOAR
• PESTLE
• Porter’s 5 forces
• Competitor’s analysis 
• Macroenvironmental scanning

4.Tools and Techniques in System Analysis 

• Strength and weaknesses (SW of SWOT)
• Keep, drop, and create
• TOWS analysis 
• Capacity assessment 
• Balanced Scorecard

5.Developing Strategies and Action Plans (Integration of External and Internal Scanning)

• SPATRES (Strategies, Programs, Activities/Tasks and Resources)
• Performance Standards 
• Performance Indicators

6.Developing Strategies and Action Plans

• Types of strategies 
• Process of putting strategy into actions
• Lean Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas
• SPATRES (Strategies, Programs, Activities/Tasks and Resources)
• Performance Standards 
• Performance Indicators
   

 
Methodology   The webinar will be blended using virtual conferencing for live lectures and real time interactions and online individual learning assignments. There will be lecture – discussion, individual exercises, individual sharing, interaction, role plays, games and feedback.