Strategic Business Planning Training Course

Strategic Business Planning Training Course

Course Description

Strategic Business Planning Training Course provides you with the skills to use a SWOT analysis to create and implement a strategic plan. Additionally, it will teach you how to implement required changes and identify the foundation of your organizational values. It will also help you create valuable reports set achievable goals while implementing intelligent strategies.

More so, this course helps organizations to stay focused. It will aid in analyzing the marketplace, setting accurate goals, assigning responsibilities, and identifying appropriate staff development plans.

To understand strategic planning, we need first to define a strategic plan. A strategic plan is a strategy devised to achieve overall goals set by a business, accounting for resources, market restrictions, stakeholder demands, and more. Also, a strategic plan sets its sights on the future, where the company wants to be, not where it currently is. Therefore, there is a need to plan and step back from the day-to-day operations of a business.

During this Strategic Business Planning Training Course, participants will develop skills and understanding in identifying company values. Ultimately, defining the company vision, conducting SWOT analysis, creating a strategic plan and balanced scorecards, and more.

Course Objectives

• Identify the values that support their company
• Write a mission statement that explains what the company’s purpose is
• Complete meaningful SWOT analyses
• Use tools and techniques to create a strategic plan that directs the organization from the executive to the front line
• Learn ways to implement, evaluate, and review a strategic plan
• Use related tools, such as the strategy map and balanced scorecard, can help them develop a strategic plan
• Understand strategic planning
• Set goals
• Assign roles and responsibilities
• Keep everybody accountable
• Gather support
• Make changes
• Use presentation options, including infographics and reports

Course Modules

Lesson 1 – Course Overview

• Welcome & Introduction
• Workshop Objectives
• What is Strategic Planning?

Lesson 2 – Understanding Strategic Planning

• What it Does
• Pyramid Structure

Lesson 3 – Identifying Our Values

• Pre-Assignment Review
• Creating Value Statements

Lesson 4 – Designing Our Vision

• The Vision Process
• Defining Your Vision

Lesson 5 – On a Mission

• Defining Your Mission Statement
• Designing a Mission Statement

Lesson 6 – Performing a SWOT Analysis

• What is a SWOT Analysis?
• Individual Analyses
• SWOT Ratings

Lesson 7 – Setting Goals

• Conducting SWOT Analysis
• Setting Business Goals
• Assigning Roles, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities
• Problem Solving in Action

Lesson 8 – Assigning Roles, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities

• Who Does What and When?
• Establishing Priorities
• Problem Solving in Action

Lesson 9 – The Full Picture

Lesson 10 – Strategic Planning Snapshot

• The Strategic Planning Cycle
• Gathering Support
• Putting It Into Practice

• Preparing For Change
• Three Phases of Change
• Endings
• Transitions/Neutral Zone
• Control & Change

Lesson 12 – How Does It Look?

• Reports
• Infographics
• Presentations
• Creative Considerations

Lesson 13 – Getting There

• Staying Focused
• Security Considerations
• Strategy Map
• Balanced Scorecard
• Case Study

Lesson 14 – Mocking Up the Process