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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.

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