Strategy Thinking and Business Planning

This course is designed to help a leader or an entire leadership team to align business planning with a proven strategic thinking model. This approach creates a clear direction and focus with a n objective analysis of your current business situation, future goals, resources and obstacles, and a clear plan to implement your strategy.

This program can be experienced in advance of a business’s strategic planning process or it can be integrated into the process, with leaders completing the pre-work and each of the three workshop sessions with the focus of working on their actual business plan during these sessions. The timing of the three sessions and the intersession activities can be adjusted to fit your actual business planning cycle.

Strategic thinking processes and tools are leveraged throughout the workshop. The process begins with a fact-based review of current business results (or lack thereof) and establishment of clear objectives (short and long term). Voice-of-customer, voice-of-market, and voice-of employee data is then used to rationalize the objectives and potentially make adjustments.

A review of resources available (current and potential) including an organization structure/accountability assessment leads to development of a strategic vision and a tactical action plan based on a realistic view of all enablers and limitations.