Strategic Thinking & Planning Global Development for Training
Price: USD 2,500
  • Duration: 5 Days

Course details

Objectives:
 
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
  • Apply strategic thinking to analyze their current environment and determine their organizational ambition
  • Employ the strategic management process to best achieve the desired ambition
  • Assess and choose strategies that create a sustainable competitive advantage for the organization
  • Determine strategic objectives, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and 'SMART' targets for the organization
  • Convert strategic plans to operating plans through creating strategic initiatives and sequencing activities
  • Participate in the performance management cycle to ensure proper execution of chosen strategies
Outline :
  • Strategic thinking and planning
    • The strategic management process
    • Strategic thinking versus strategic planning
    • Benefiting from strategic management
    • Evolution of strategic models
    • Moving from strategy to organizational planning
  • Analysis of the environment
    • The 5 Cs of strategic analysis
    • Porter's 5 forces
    • Creating and capturing value
    • Conducting a SWOT analysis
    • Plotting a SWOT analysis
    • Fundamentals of PEDESTL framework
  • Vision, mission statements and values
    • Using vision and mission statements
    • Definition of vision
    • Definition of mission
    • Formulating vision and mission statements
    • Embracing organizational values
    • Communicating the vision, mission and values
  • Assessing strategic choices
    • The 3 primary goals of competitive strategy
    • The strategy pyramid
    • Porter's generic competitive strategies
    • IKEA's cost leadership
    • Innovating in the industry value chain
    • Developing a competitive advantage
    • Cirque du Soleil value curve
  • Strategic objectives, KPIs and targets
    • Ensuring strategic alignment in the organization
    • Developing effective strategic objectives
    • Using the Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
    • Creating Critical Success Factors (CSFs)
    • Using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
    • Characteristics of the right KPIs
    • Developing different types of KPIs
    • Setting SMART targets
  • Developing operating plans
    • Cascading from vision to action plans
    • Criteria for effective action plans
    • Developing strategic initiatives
    • Operational KPIs and the triple constraints
    • Developing departmental plans
    • Managing the execution of strategy
    • KPI dashboard reporting
    • Barriers to strategy execution
Updated on 25 March, 2019

About Global Development for Training

Introduction:

Training has become of great importance to managers of various organizations and institutions where training is an effective way to increase employee's efficiency at all stages of his work. It develops his abilities, skills and provides him with new information which is an influential factor in the process of upgrading the employee and increases his authorities and responsibilities.

The last two decades have witnessed a major transformation in the training knowledge. It has become Knowledge-based science; it is the only way to progress and development.

The need of Knowledge-based science is now a scale of new wealth. It requires a distinct type of education and lifelong training in acquiring knowledge and updating on an ongoing basis. This was an important reason that led to establishment of Global Development for Training (G.D.T).

Establishment:

Global Development for Training was established in 2012 in UAE - Permit No. 91,288 in Dubai to provide training and consulting services and staff development with the latest training methods in the world and in line with the global market to meet all the strategic requirements of the global markets in an environment based on modern knowledge, through the best human development trainers in the Arab world and the rest of the world, to reach the highest level of quality, creativity and developing clients and participants.

Vision:

To be one of the best training centers in the world which train and qualify the leaders and staff of the Arab World with the latest training methods in the world.

Mission:

We seek to provide strong training base to provide training and consulting services that meet all the strategic requirements for global markets in an environment built on knowledge, and through professionals Instructors in the world. Therefore, we put our goals in order to reach the highest levels of quality and creativity.

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