About
Introduction
Coming up with a great strategy is one thing, but actually implementing it successfully in order to get outstanding results is quite another. This is why the real challenge in strategy is in execution. Professionals require the skills and competencies to go from strategy formulation to day-to-day tactical execution while ensuring the achievement of results that align with the strategy.
Objectives
- Understand the planning and execution framework at all levels of the organization.
- Understand the need for planning and control to achieve strategy, operational goals, and tactical results.
- Understand and apply the basic principles and concepts of planning and decision-making at all levels of the organization.
- Recognize and apply the concepts and principles of strategy, operational planning, and tactical execution.
- Creating and maintaining the organizational structures, processes, and systems to ensure tactical, operational, and strategic success.
- Develop an ability to understand context, seize opportunities, and apply initiative in the face competition, obstacles, and rapidly changing situations, all to achieve the higher-level outcomes of the organization.
Contents
Day One
From Vision to Results: The Planning and Execution Framework
- Understanding the distinctions between strategy, operations, and tactics
- How planning and execution work
- How vision, mission, and planning relate to morale, cohesion, and unity of purpose
- Nested hierarchical planning
- Mission analysis and mission leadership
- Measuring progress and results
Day Two
Strategy: Setting the Vision and Direction
- Understanding vision, mission, objectives
- Corporate-level strategy
- Competitive strategy and positioning
- Offensive and defensive manoeuvres
Day Three
Operational Campaign Planning: Turning the Strategy into Actionable Plans
- Using nested hierarchical planning and mission analysis to create a campaign planning framework
- Understanding and applying key operational concepts: centre of gravity, main effort, concentration, economy of effort, major thrust(s), and supporting thrust(s)
- Working with limited resources: deciding what to do and why to do it
- Building a campaign plan to implement a strategy
- Successful manoeuvring and positioning
Day Four
Operational Systems and Processes: Setting the Conditions for Successful Execution of Strategy
- Strategy mapping and the components of organizational systems and processes
- The financial perspective
- The customer perspective
- The internal perspective: operations management, customer management, innovation, and regulatory & social processes
- The learning and growth perspective: developing and integrating human, informational, and organizational capital
Day Five
Tactics: Getting Results and Leading in the Face Competition and Obstacles
- Breaking objectives into manageable goals and tasks
- Giving direction efficiently and effectively
- Using and encouraging initiative, flexibility, and adaptation within overarching strategy, operational plans, and organizational structures and systems
- Managing for results
- Feedback and adjustment
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
