 Strategic skills:
Systems thinking and advanced people skills are about doing things right. This section addresses doing the right things.
And the training we provide will provide you and your colleagues with the InTheZone™advantage!
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Your Overall Approach
Learn and apply important distinctions between:
- Formal vs. informal planning
- Operational vs. strategic planning
- Strategic planning vs. strategic thinking.
Consider a modular form of planning that provides:
- Stability in times of change
- Flexibility to adapt to change.
Learn the principles for selecting relevant stakeholders and the appropriate level of participation for each. The result will be a plan that benefits from all relevant perspectives and earns broadly based support for successful implementation.
Discuss environmental scanning methods and how best to integrate the results into your strategic planning process.
Analyze an approach that enables your process to arrive at clear strategic conclusions rather than broad generalities and gets your strategic planning process off to the right start.
Learn the necessity of considering, early in the process, the internal challenges to be addressed so that the organization is prepared to absorb, implement and even thrive upon the conclusions that the strategic plan presents.
Discuss factors that indicate the organization’s readiness and appetite for strategic change, and the implications for the timing and approach of successful strategic planning.
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Incorporating the Voice of Your Stakeholders
Effective stakeholder participation ensures that your strategic planning:
- Takes all significant perspectives into account
- Earns support for successful implementation.
Understand your extensive options and alternatives regarding:
- Intent of involvement
- Means of involvement
- Timing of involvement.
Learn proven principles for deciding among these many options.
For each stakeholder activity, learn what to ask and what not to ask.
Learn how to design a stakeholder consultation event in a way that fosters two-way communication and enhanced mutual understanding.
Discover how to capture, analyze and make sense of large volumes of input in a very short time, and how to maximize the value of stakeholder input in your strategic planning deliberations.
Finally, discuss how to transform the stakeholder consultation experience into a stronger stakeholder partnership to further your organization’s future success.
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Risk Management
This workshop broadens participants’ perspectives on the full range of risks a business faces and how to think strategically about managing those risks.
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Leverage Your Plan for Results
Some years ago, the COO of one of Canada’s best-known global corporations was giving the CEO of Progress ConsultingTM a tour of the company’s executive suite.
They passed a large mural displaying the company’s Mission and Vision, which was covered with 100 signatures. The COO proudly explained that the signatures reflected the commitment of the many people who had participated in the development of the most recent strategic plan. The COO then sighed and said, “But it is time to update the plan, and many of those people are no longer here. To rekindle commitment, I suppose we have to start all over again.”
Not true!
This training session shows you how to gain high levels of participation and commitment while capitalizing on the best and most enduring aspects of past planning efforts. Indeed, this approach helps you to prevent the wasted planning time and effort and stakeholder skepticism caused by unnecessary strategic planning déjà vu.
This module also shows you how your organization can take the Mission and Vision off the wall and the Strategic Plan off the shelf and convert them into concrete working tools to guide medium-term and day-to-day decision-making.
The result?
People transforming:
- Strategic ideas into action, and
- Strategic goals into results.
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