Unlock your potential to lead and manage strategic initiatives with our Certified Strategic Planning Professional course. Designed for ambitious professionals, this course equips you with the essential tools and methodologies to craft and execute effective strategic plans that drive organizational success.

Course Content:

• Introduction to Strategic Planning
• Understanding Strategic Planning Fundamentals
• Importance of Strategic Planning in Business
• Environmental Scanning
• SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
• PESTEL Analysis (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental, Legal)
• Strategy Formulation
• Vision and Mission Statements
• Setting SMART Goals and Objectives
• Competitive Analysis and Positioning
• Strategic Implementation
• Action Planning and Resource Allocation
• Change Management Techniques
• Performance Monitoring and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
• Evaluation and Control
• Continuous Improvement Strategies
• Balanced Scorecard Approach
• Feedback Mechanisms and Strategic Adjustments
• Case Studies and Practical Applications
• Real-World Examples of Strategic Planning Success
• Group Exercises and Scenario Planning

Key Benefits:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of strategic planning processes
• Learn to align organizational goals with actionable plans
• Enhance your ability to lead strategic initiatives with confidence
• Obtain a globally recognized certification to boost your career prospects

Cost: 4500 AED

Duration: 1 To 5 Days

•   Define basic project management ;
•   Distinguish projects from ongoing operations and ;
•   Explain the benefits of organising project activities into ;
•   Describe the Generic Project Life ;
•   Develop, plan, schedule, and chart project information.
•   Work with calendars and implement scheduling methods such as the Critical Path Method to keep projects on track.
•   Create task dependencies and work with flexible and inflexible task constraints.
•   Work with multiple, consolidated projects and multiple critical paths.
•   Use Gantt charts to visualize project progress.
•   Create PEST charts to understand the relationships between tasks.
•   Compare actual progress against planned baseline projections.
•   Estimate durations for activities and resources ;
•   Estimate durations for activities and resources required.
•   Develop a project ;
•   Estimate costs.
•   Build a budget and spending plan.
•   Describe elements of a good project communications ;
•   Organise to acquire ;
•   Identify risks and plan to respond.

Cost: 4900 USD

Duration: 5 Days

Cost: 3870 USD

Duration: 3 Days

The main objective of this course is to explain the planning and scheduling functions and how they can be part of an overall Operational Excellence model and Asset Reliability systems. Planners and Schedulers will strengthen their understanding of their important functions beyond the routine CMMS Work Order daily transactions. This will be achieved by explaining a typical step-by-step work process of the Planning and Scheduling of Maintenance Work Orders. The course will outline an integrated end to end work process covering Planning, Scheduling, Execution as well as Asset Reliability functions.

Attendants will also take a closer look at the Maintenance Performance Metrics and how these metrics can gage the health of the Maintenance planning and execution functions which in turn will enable the Maintenance Organization for a continuous improvement cycle.

Cost: 1990 USD

Duration: 5 Days

Cost: 3995 USD

Duration: 5 Days

• Write strategic procurement objectives and initiatives to support long term directions
• Arrange 'spend items' into categories that support planning of go-to-market strategies
• Apply demand forecasting techniques to improve planning of procurement activities
• Generate vendor integration strategies to ensure supply security
• Evaluate vendor bids in a scientific manner to support selection decision making

• Setting procurement mission and objectives
• Selection of improvement initiatives

• Performance measures and targets
• Communication of procurement plan
• Stakeholder engagement

• Spend category profiling
• Spend impact analysis

• Market risk analysis

• Category report consolidation

• The soft side of forecasting

• Principles of demand planning
• Quantitative forecasting techniques
• Qualitative forecasting techniques

• Vendor prequalification process
• Vendor prequalification criteria

• Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Strategic partnering
• Supplier diversity programs

• Bid management process
• Bid evaluation criteria
• Scoring systems and protocols
• Selection and award
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for complex purchases

Cost: 3995 USD

Duration: 5 Days

• Develop project risk management plans
• Identify project scope risks
• Predict project schedule risks
• Examine project resource risks
• Apply quantitative and qualitative risk assessments
• Plan strategies for negative and positive risks
• Devise metrics to monitor and control project risks

• Risk components
• Project risk planning processes
• Risk management plan elements

• Sources of scope risk
• Scope change risks
• Defining deliverables
• Bottom-up approach

• Sources of schedule risk
• Activity definition
• Estimating activity duration
• Applying estimating techniques
• Activity sequencing

• Sources of resource risk
• Resource planning methods
• Staff acquisition
• Cost estimating and cost budgeting
• Managing project risks

• Quantitative and qualitative risk analysis
• Risk assessment matrices
• Quantifying risks using PERT analysis
• Decision tree analysis

• Categories of risk
• Risk management strategies
• Risk response planning
• Contingency planning
• Risk registers

• Implementing response plans
• Collecting project status
• Metrics and trend analysis
• Project reviews and risk reassessment

Cost: 3195 USD

Duration: 3 Days

• Skill and confidence to use a practical project planning technique
• Ability to determine if a project can truly be delivered on time and in budget
• An understanding of how to discover the risks necessary to meet a constrained delivery date
• Confidence to communicate project "trade-offs" clearly and set attainable goals with clients, managers, and team members
• Knowledge of how to record actual project progress and then use the project baseline to spot and manage variance
• Ability to "frame" your questions when analyzing the project plan to spot hidden variances

• Portfolio, program, and project management overview
• Planning and control using appropriate life cycle
• Managing matrix resources
• The role of the project manager and skills required
• A framework for planning and control

• Planning and control starts with the project charter
• Exercise: Rank project using constraints flexibility assessment
• Roles and responsibility
• Exercise: Develop a RASCI chart

• Define the project scope
• Design the work breakdown structure
• Identify project activities

• Estimating techniques
• Reserve management
• Balance effort/duration and allocation

• Scheduling techniques
• Milestones and Gantt charts
• Network diagrams

• Applying accelerating techniques
• Resource scheduling and availability conflict management techniques
• Exercise: Resolve an over allocation problem using the least risk option

• Measuring and reporting progress (project governance)
• Establishing a project dashboard
• Exercise: Design a dashboard report
• Earned value for tracking and forecasting time/cost
• Closing Exercise: How techniques learned can be applied upon return to the workplace

Cost: 3195 USD

Duration: 3 Days

• Describe the origins, history and development of youth policies in at least two countries in your region.
• Outline the main themes that underpin the formulation, development and implementation of youth policies.
• Demonstrate a broad awareness of the impact of youth policies on youth development work.
• Evaluate the success of such policies through, for example, the use of performance indicators.
• Contribute to the strategic development of agencies in the youth development field through youth policy development.
• Establish and/or work within partnerships created to achieve key objectives of youth policy at local level.
• Influence policy-making processes in a way that is appropriate to your role.

• Members of National Youth Councils.
• Youth Workers in government departments, corporations and NGOs.
• Youth Parliamentarian Committees.
• Professionals responsible for policy formulation and strategy development in youth focused organizations.

• Youth policy Overview
• Policy Definition - social/welfare policy - youth policy
• Youth Policy
• Nature, Objectives and Importance
• Characteristics of youth policies

• The scope of youth policy
• Policy planning and formulation
• Policy impact and implementation
• Analyzing Social Policy
• Social policy in context
• Government involvement in social policy
• Grassroots policy development: another approach

• Youth policy principles
• Youth policy and the wider policy environment
• Elements of a successful youth policy
• Policy success and failure
• Measuring success or failure
• Elements of a successful policy

• Frameworks in action
• Key headings for a youth policy
• Essential features of a youth policy
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of policies

Cost: 2200 USD

Duration: 4 Days