Developing and Implementing Strategy
| Course Code: |
2001 |
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| Dates: |
On a date of your choice |
| Venue: |
TBA |
| Course Fees: |
Available on application |
| CPD Credits: |
12 hrs |
To discuss your requirements or for further information contact us on 0203 170 5779 or email info@ctp.uk.com
Developing and Implementing Strategy Course Outline
This 2-day, intensive residential workshop on developing and implementing strategy gives Directors and Senior Managers the tools to help them contribute to, or lead, strategy development. The process helps individuals gain a fundamental understanding of how a corporate strategy is developed and how to lead a management team and organisation through to communicating and implementing that strategy.
You'll learn a number of techniques that will help you to:
Set clear goals
Consider and plan for external impacts
Think through the capabilities of the organisation to execute the strategy
Develop plausible scenarios
Who should attend?
Senior Managers or Board Members with responsibility for setting strategy and plans
Business Development Executives tasked with facilitating development of the strategy
Group, department or team managers wishing to develop a strategy for their team
How delegates will benefit
Led by an experienced consultant who has been at the leading edge of helping businesses to find their way to success, the course will be highly participative, allowing you to apply techniques and will: -
Focus on how to manage and use the existing knowledge of people within the business
Include a number of business analysis models
Follow a process for creating and implementing the strategy that can be repeated in your own environment
Include challenges faced by both business generation and support areas
Address the political, legal, economic and technological issues that face the financial services industry
Training Approach
This workshop is uses a combination of trainer input, knowledge sharing with interactive syndicate work and case studies
Group size is generally kept to a maximum of 12 to facilitate sharing of experience amongst the delegates
Workshop Leader: Jayne Owen
Jayne is the Chief Executive of Corporate Training Partnerships Ltd and joined from the Ernst & Young Regulatory Practice where she delivered consultancy services to help major clients address compliance issues. She has over thirty years experience in the financial services industry and has worked within a regulatory body, the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation, as well as Barclays Bank PLC and the National Westminster Bank Group.
Her commercial experience spans most aspects of financial services from sales and marketing to finance, planning and operations within regulated firms she therefore brings both a broad understanding of regulation as well as business acumen to bear on issues.
In a training role Jayne uses a high degree of facilitation to draw out the experience of delegates. She challenges constructively to deepen understanding and enable the practical business advantages to be explored from using new knowledge and skills in the workplace.
Programme Outline
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SESSION
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AIM
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CONTENT
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| Recognising Corporate Strategy |
To recognise a good Corporate Strategy |
- What is a Corporate Strategy
- Critical Success Factors for a good Corporate Strategy
- Where strategy becomes something else
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| Overview of Process |
To describe a process for developing a Corporate Strategy |
- Key steps in developing a Corporate Strategy
- The purpose for each step
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| Values Audit |
To understand how to gain agreement on an organisation’s Core Values |
- Identifying Management Team values
- Agreeing on Corporate Values
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| Mission Statement |
To follow a process for identifying a Corporate Mission Statement |
- What is the Core Business?
- How are you delivering it?
- Phrasing a Mission Statement
- Check criteria
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| Vision Statement |
To understand what is a Corporate Vision Statement and how to create one |
- What makes a good vision statement
- Setting internal state for creating visions
- Agreeing a corporate vision
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| Preparation for Analysis |
To explore preparatory work useful for the strategy session |
- Preparing information and analysis
- PESTEL
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| SWOT |
Using a SWOT to analysis factors affecting the business |
- What is a SWOT
- Using a SWOT to analyse the business
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| SWOT for Strategy |
To describe an approach using SWOT in developing a Corporate Strategy |
- The SWOT from multiple perspectives
- Risk/Benefit analysis
- Overnight exercise
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Review of day 1 |
To review the learning from day 1 |
- Review overnight exercise
- Review highlights from previous day
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| Strategy considerations |
To consider a range of approaches in developing a strategy |
- Possible generic strategies
- TOWS Matrix
- Developing strategy options
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| Developing the Strategy |
To develop a strategy to achieve the business vision taking account of factors affecting the business |
- Getting agreement on a strategy
- Checking complete
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| Implementation |
To identify critical factors and understand the steps required in implementing a business strategy |
- Feedback and buy-in from the organisation
- Finalising
- Converting to action plans
- Evaluation and Control
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| Review of process |
To review the process and assess the outcome achieved |
- Review of process
Assessment of outcome
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To book this course, discuss your requirements or for further information contact us now on
0203 170 5779 or email info@ctp.uk.com
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Booking
If you are interested in booking this course, or if you have any questions, please call call us on 01327 858307.