Strategic Thinking and PlanningLeadership and management

In any city around the world 00447455203759 Course Code: AC/000124

Course Description

After a registration of 5 trainees, the registration of the sixth trainee is free of charge

Language: Arabic & English

The course includes:

1. The scientific material is placed on Tab in addition to the workshops.

2. Provide consultancy related to

3. Reception and farewell from the airport.

4. Daily lunch during the course days.

Introduction to the training course:

The Foundation without a strategy is like a ship without a helm. How can the institutions continue to provide exceptional value to the stakeholders and customers if their destination is not clear and they do not know how to reach it? They cannot. Here the role of the strategy becomes essential. As the strategy revolves around setting ambitious goals and understanding the current and future environment, this is the primary focus of this session.

This course will cover the seven steps of the strategy management process, starting with the elements of strategic "thinking", moving to the element of "planning" and ending with "implementation", and at the end of the course participants will be able to implement or improve the strategic process in their organizations to reach the vision of the organization and achieve its mission.

Training course goals:

At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:

• enables the development of every step of strategy management.

• Modern situations in the strategy, including "Starbucks, IKEA, Serk de Solly, and others" from the institutions in the Middle East.

• Knowing the most important strategic tools and frameworks and practicing practical application during the course

• applying strategic thinking and environmental analysis and determining the institution's ambition.

• employment of the strategy management process to achieve the desired goal.

• evaluating and choosing strategies that provide a sustainable competitive advantage for the institution.

• Defining the strategic goals, main performance indicators, and smart digital targets of the institution

• converting strategic plans into operational plans by creating strategic initiatives and serial activities.

• Participate in the performance management course to ensure the proper implementation of the selected strategy.

Target groups:

• Administrative leadership of ministries, bodies, and government and private departments

• Directors of departments, heads of departments, and officials of organizational units.

• Organizational leadership of organizations whose organizations are looking for strategic planning.

• Candidates for leadership and administrative positions in government and private institutions.

• All workers in the government and private sector who are nominated for administrative positions that need to be planned and decision-making.

• All leaders responsible for planning and organizing the future, as well as implementing policies and goals in various organizations.

• Everyone who finds himself the need of this session and wants to develop his skills and experiences.

Training course content:

The first unit:

Strategic thinking and planning :

• The process of managing the strategy

• Strategic thinking vs. strategic planning

• Take advantage of strategic management.

• The development of strategic models

• Moving from strategic planning to institutional planning

The second unit:

Environmental analysis

• Strategy analysis

• The effect of Porter's five competitive forces on the profitability of the potential industry

• Add value and obtain it.

• Doing "Swot" analysis

• "SWOT" chart.

• Basics of "Pedstl" analysis framework

Vision, message, and values

• Making use of vision and message

• definition of vision.

• The definition of the message

• Drafting a vision and message

• Adopting the values of the institution

• Delivery of vision, message, and values

The third unit:

Strategic options evaluation:

• The three main objectives of the competitive strategy.

• strategy pyramid

• Porter's general competitive strategies

• Cost leadership strategy.

• innovation in the industrial value chain.

• development of competitive advantages.

• value curve

Fourth Unit:

Strategic goals, main performance indicators, and targets :

• ensuring the strategic alignment of the institution.

• Developing effective strategic goals

• Use a balanced performance card.

• establishing the main success elements.

• Using major performance indicators

• the correct main performance indicators.

• Developing different types of major performance indicators

• Putting smart digital targets

Fifth Unit:

Development of operational plans:

• From vision to action plan

• Criteria for effective action plans.

• development of strategic initiatives.

• The main operational performance indicators and triple restrictions

• Develop plans for the departments.

• Managing and implementing the strategy

• KPI dashboard.

• The barriers that prevent the implementation of the strategy