STRATEGIC THINKING, PLANNING AND MANAGING

Course details

Objectives

• Provide government leaders with the basics of strategic planning and develop ways of thinking that facilitate strategic planning process.
• Transfer abstract ideas and theoretic concepts to strategic thinking.
• Set the context of conceptual understanding within the context of public governance.
• Achieve the first rank of competitiveness in using technologies in performing strategic processes in government sector.
• Transfer introductory strategic skills to the participants.
• Detect the capacity of strategic planning and practice through applications in strategic technologies.

Curriculum

Module (1):

• Linking Strategic Concepts to People.
• Thinking Strategically: The Leadership and Organisational Imperatives from the Literature.
• Strategic Leadership and Knowledge Management.

Module (2) :

• Strategic Management, Leadership and Learning
• Strategic Applications and Techniques: Design and Pitch for a Strategic Workshop.

Module (3) :

• Strategic Management: Twenty Critical Questions
• Implementation, Indicators, measures and targets
• Strategic Management: Individual style assessment.

Module (4):

• Prioritisation and action planning
• Strategic tools - Executive Governance
• Strategic tools - Total Quality Management

Module (5):

• Combining the tools and techniques for the work environment
• Creating practical structures for strategic initiatives