Leadership: Strategic Planning and Decision Making

Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail. Learn proven approaches to create or adapt your current mission to guide robust planning, execution, and daily decision making to get the results you need to assure your organizations growth. These extraordinary times require extraordinary performance by every leader and manager throughout the organization.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

Emphasizing the importance of long-term strategic decision-making, the strategic decision-making mindset program is designed to improve managers' judgment and critical thinking skills using proven approaches, cutting-edge research, and behavioral economics.

Participants will understand the decision-making process from start to finish, with the ability to recognize cognitive biases that inhibit good decisions. This strategic decision-making program enhances participants' capacity to make well-thought-out individual, group, and organizational decisions.

AREA COVERED

• Strategic Approach to Planning
  • Dump the To-Do List
  • Create a common vision to focus the organization
  • Developing the mission to drive daily action and decision making
  • Developing goals, objectives, and strategies to fulfill mission
• Success factors to cascade the plan through the organization
  • Guidelines for implementation plans; who and why
  • Using planning to engage employees
  • Tracking progress against the plan
  • Getting back on track when we are off plan
• Stay focused on results, not activity, focused
  • Making strategic decisions
• Grow, evolve, and improve your plan
  • Demonstrate ROI for our planning efforts

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Stick to the fundamentals of strategic planning, decision making, and leadership to focus the organization for success
• Resist firefighting and quick tactical reactions
• Use your mission to drive daily action and decision making
• Implement strategies to execute plans and track progress
• Cascade the plan through the organization to engage employees
• Get back on track when you are off plan
• Focus on results, not activity, to evolve your plan
• Avoid turning planning into a bureaucratic nightmare
• Demonstrate ROI for your planning efforts

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

• CEO
• Senior Vice President
• Vice President
• Executive Director
• Managing Director
• Regional Vice President
• Area Supervisor
• Manager
• Executives
• Departmental Managers
• Supervisors
• Project managers
• Leaders in any capacity