Course Objectives:
• To develop skills in evaluating opportunities and threats in your competitive environment
• To enhance the skills of diagnosing and managing the strengths and weaknesses within your department
• To gain the ability to develop new strategies and provide options for your strategic Planning
• To have confidence to adapt and adopt the tools within the strategic process, to different situations
• To understand the importance of analyzing, before planning
• To learn how to effectively lead and communicate a strategic planning effort
• To recognize the need for change, and the uncertainty and discomfort it can bring
• To understand the potential pitfalls of incomplete, inconsistent, or inflexible planning
• To balance the focus on process with an equal focus on people