Turning Strategy into Action

Overview:

The key to bringing to life any strategic business plan is creating a clear direction and purpose that is translated into individual actions.

• Direction/Purpose/goals agreed
• Strategies understood and translated into actions
• People have a sense of passion and commitment to deliver

Most companies often miss these vital ingredients and great strategies often fail

Audience:

Senior management in general and all managerial ranks involved in strategy formation and strategic planning in particular

Objectives:

This workshop will combine the introduction of a range of leadership tools and skills with the aim of creating clarity around vision values and behaviors. It will seek to answer questions such as:

• Where are you and your business now?
• What do you want for your business and yourselves?
• What is your vision and where do you want to get to over the next 3 years?

Within the program we will introduce a number of practical leadership tools and models including

• A model that describes what great leaders really do
• Strategic leadership skills focusing on building awareness and developing emotional intelligence

Course Outline:

·        What is strategy?

·        Strategy formulation

·        What is strategic planning?

·        Creating vision and mission statements

·        Why traditional approaches fail?

·        Creating Purpose/Values/Principles

·        Understanding the foundations of any successful business planning process

·        Gaining the skills of facilitating purpose/values and principles

·        Making any business plan live through an organization’s purpose/values/principles

Ø      Where are you going? –OGSM- Overall Objective/Goal Setting

• Applying SWOT analysis to understand where you are
• Understanding the key principles of objective /goal setting
• Creating exciting and compelling goals that are worth going for

Ø      Essential Elements of Business Planning

• Creating a business plan that makes sense and produces results
• Understanding how to turn strategy into actions
• Creating a plan document that works at any level of the organization
• Making people share in making plans and strategy formation
• Developing your overall objective
• Developing your goals to achieve your overall objective
• Developing the right strategies
• Understanding and setting clear and definable measures

Ø      Measuring and Reviewing Success:

• The principles of roles and responsibilities to deliver results
• Remedial action when actions/strategies are not creating success

Ø      Energizing and maintaining the process

• Linking emotional commitment to achieving results
• Maximizing team capacity and capability
• Developing leadership skills