The best way to predict the future is to create it!
Strategic Planning is a process that determines the future of the organization and what organizational resources will be needed to ensure success. The process involves determining what business opportunities exist, and what resources are available to capitalize on those opportunities.
"I have learned the importance of goal setting and how to create a game plan for achieving those goals." -- Michael Leland, Senior Loan Officer
Leaders today have found that developing a strategy and a plan is far more effective than leaving the future to chance. Furthermore, the Plan's key factors that create higher levels of motivation and commitment continuously fuel higher levels of achievement. Finally, the effective monitoring and implementation of the plan is as important as planning. This is the true determining factor as to whether or not an organization is successful.
This facilitated process is for those organizations, departments, and/or managers who have not done strategic planning recently or ever, and who have done things in a similar way for 7-10 years or more. It is designed to break down rigid thinking that supports the "we've always done it that way" mentality, and get participants "thinking outside the box" before beginning the strategic planning process. To do otherwise would create a future that looks like the past.
Key Areas:
- Elements of Successful Strategic Planning - Ten Common Mistakes
- A Passion for Succeeding
- Vision/Mission/Values
- Developing Competitive Edge - Customers, Trends, Competitors, Resources, and Organizational Structure
- SWOT's - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
- Five Base Strategies
- Effective Planning Techniques
- Execution is Everything - Action items, Goals, and Critical Success Factors
- Marketing and Sales - Why People Buy
- Generating and Retaining Profits
- Critical Success Factors
- Becoming a Customer Driven Organization - Expectations, Speed, Flexibility, Complaints, Consistency, Integrity, and Team Work