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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Module 1: Strategic Reasoning and Analysis
- Defining strategic imperatives and the three fundamental domains of organizational strategy
- Process, Content, and Context: Integrating the three core strategic dimensions
- Foundations of Systems Thinking for rigorous strategic assessment
- McKinsey Three Horizons: Balancing core operations, growth opportunities, and future initiatives
- Blue Ocean Strategy and the ERRC Grid (Eliminate-Reduce-Raise-Create)
- Scenario Planning: Preparing for multiple plausible future states
- Exercise: Articulate your agency's strategic posture using the Three Horizons model
Module 2: Formulating Vision
- Mission vs. Vision: Clarifying the critical distinctions
- Common causes of strategic plan failure and mitigation strategies
- Establishing a robust, measurable, and clear vision
- OKRs, OGSM, and V2MOM: Frameworks for translating vision into objective goals
- Hoshin Kanri Catchball: Iterative alignment across organizational tiers
- Best practices for ensuring vision alignment and stakeholder engagement
- Workshop: Draft a vision statement and disseminate it using an OGSM template
Module 3: Cultivating Strategic Capability
- Strategic planning vs. strategic thinking: Complementary competencies
- Techniques for strategic decision-making under conditions of uncertainty
- Communication skills for strategic influence and executive persuasion
- Identification of critical competencies required for strategic success
- McKinsey 7-S model: Diagnosing strategy, structure, and shared values
- Cultivating a strategic mindset: Emphasizing inquiry, reframing, and long-term orientation
- Case study: Assess organizational misalignment using the 7-S framework
Module 4: Formulating Strategy
- Translating vision into action: Developing strategic options and pathways
- Framework selection guide: OKRs vs. BSC vs. OGSM vs. Hoshin Kanri
- Stakeholder identification and power-interest mapping
- Inter-agency buy-in: Building coalitions and strategic alliances
- Identifying areas of potential conflict and mitigating objections
- Strategic implications: Resource, structural, and cultural considerations
- Exercise: Develop strategic options and map stakeholders for a specific public sector initiative
Module 5: Execution and Implementation
- Resource allocation, strategic planning, and control mechanisms
- Planning tools: Gantt charts, RACI matrices, and milestone tracking
- Objectives, tasks, and communication: Aligning the implementation team
- Projects vs. Business as Usual: Managing the dual operating system
- ADKAR model: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement
- Kotter's 8-Step model for leading organizational change
- KPI tracking: Leading indicators (predictive) and lagging indicators (outcomes)
- Systems thinking for change: Reducing disruption and building institutional support
- Workshop: Develop an implementation roadmap with change management milestones
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Experience in a management, team-lead, or supervisory role.
- Familiarity with basic business planning concepts.
- No prior knowledge of specific strategic frameworks is required.
Audience
- Product/Service Managers.
- Team Leaders and Managers (both newly appointed and established).
- Operations Directors.
- Senior Managers.
- HR Managers.
- Marketing Managers.
Testimonials (2)
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Katarzyna - R.BRAND POLAND SP. Z O.O.
Course - Akademia Lidera - Nowy Paradygmat Przywództwa
Very practical. Trainer was very flexible in ensuring we meet our needs.