Strategic Planning, Development & Implementation in Government & Public Sector

Module 1 – An Introduction to Strategic Leadership Principles

·         Description:

On Day One the course explore the necessary components of successful leadership (mission, vision, strategy, resources and culture)

• • Strategic leadership principles (or why, in the same environment, does business performance vary?
  • The role of strategic leadership and why it matters
  • An overview of the strategic leadership and strategic planning processes
  • Know the difference between a strategic plan and a business plan
  • Understanding your organization’s mission and vision (and its crucial importance)
  • Assessing your organization’s current and desired the external and internal environment

Module 2 – Formulating Your Strategic Plans

·         Description:

On Day Two the course looks at strategy as the creation of a unique and valuable position.

• • The ingredients (organizational activity system) of strategic planning and its impact on competitive advantage/the bottom line
  • Effective strategy planning processes: strategic capability (what we want to do), organizational capability (how we want to do it) and resource capability (knowing we can do it)
  • The core strategic choices for an organization: what is and is not strategic planning
  • The top manager as strategist planner: the competencies of strategic leadership

Module 3 – Strategic Alignment and Performance

·         Description:

On Day Three the course looks at how to align mission, vision, strategic and culture with people, processes and systems.

• • Creating a strategic management map
  • How to get every employee headed in the same direction with shared purpose
  • Knowing the key building blocks of strategic leadership execution
  • Understanding how performance (growth and profitability) are the result of alignment between employees, customers, strategy and processes
  • Integrating the resources and business systems to achieve performance
  • How to bring together previously unconnected parts of the organization into an interrelated, easily comprehensive, model to achieve consistent, defined levels of performance

Module 4 – Strategy Implementation and KPI/Performance Measurement

·         Description:

On Day Four the course looks at how to use lateral thinking to clarify KPI/ performance measurement as part of your strategy implementation.

• • Old and new learning on strategy implementation and delivering performance
  • What should a detailed strategy implementation plan contain?
  • What strategic management implementation requires?
  • Identifying your core strategy implementation plan
  • Identifying department and individual KPIs
  • Communicating the strategy and overcoming internal political resistance

Module 5 – Being a Strategic Leader

·         Description:

On Day Five the course looks at how to pull all the above together via a strategic planning exercise

• • Building ‘strategy making’ and implementation into the role of managers at all levels
  • Developing strategic leadership and management implementation capability
  • Team exercise
  • Creating organizational commitment to the business strategy
  • Reviewing and evaluation implementation performance progress
  • Leading effective strategy making teams
  • Back to work action planning