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Bespoke Training: Effective Strategic Thinking

Improving the Ability and Confidence to Think Strategically

Overview

To ensure a strategy is sound and produces successful outcomes, good quality decisions need to be made. Good decisions, in turn, rely on high-quality strategic thinking.

If you want to change your teams’ thinking, challenge perceptions and plan actions all in a collaborative and open training environment, this is the course for you, book this in-house course and hone your and your colleagues’ skills in a collaborative and open training environment.

This Effective Strategic Thinking bespoke course will de-mystify strategic thinking; assess the benefits of strategic analysis; learn how to use strategic analysis and understand how to best implement your strategy at your organisation.

This highly interactive course aimed specifically at the public sector allows your team to evaluate performance, address weaknesses and gain a deeper understanding of how imaginative thinking can improve work.

Leave the day confident in your and your colleagues’ abilities to generate tangible results in your role and implement change in your organisation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Develop your ability and confidence to think strategically

  • Practise using these and build your confidence in applying them

  • Learn practical tools and techniques which can be applied immediately

  • Think about what strategic thinking means in practice and why it is important

  • Consider the essential link between policy and strategy, what the strategy needs to achieve and the perspectives of stakeholders



All the Understanding ModernGov courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified,
with signed certificates available upon request for event.


Enquire About In-House Training

To speak to someone about a bespoke training programme, please contact us:

0800 542 9414
InHouse@moderngov.com



Agenda

09:25 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 09:45 Virtual Ice Breaker and Clarification of Learning Objectives

  • The Chair will discuss delegate experiences to identify personal objectives for the day and tailor the course to specific requirements

09:45 - 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

  • What do you want to achieve today?

10:00 - 10:45 What Exactly is Strategic Thinking?

  • What myths exist about ‘strategic thinking’? What is true?

  • What good examples of strategy have you seen and what made them good?

  • What is your strategic issue?

10:45 - 11:00 Morning Break

  • External environment v. internal capability?

  • What external factors could help or hinder?

  • What possible scenarios do you need to be prepared for?

11:00 - 12:15 The Benefits of Strategic Analysis

  • External environment v. internal capability?

  • What external factors could help or hinder?

  • What possible scenarios do you need to be prepared for?

12:15 - 13:00 Lunch

  • What is your vision of success?

  • Who are the stakeholders?

  • How strong do those relationships need to be and how can you strengthen them?

  • Who do you need to influence?

  • What are the strengths and weaknesses?

13:00 - 13:15 Reflection Session

  • The trainer will review the day’s learning and the next stages of the course

  • Delegates will have time to ask questions and share views with one another

13:15 - 15:00 Using Strategic Analysis in Your Organisation

  • What is your vision of success?

  • Who are the stakeholders?

  • How strong do those relationships need to be and how can you strengthen them?

  • Who do you need to influence?

  • What are the strengths and weaknesses?

15:00 - 15:15 Afternoon Break

15:15 - 16:00 Effective Strategic Implementation

  • What is the difference between change and transition?

  • What do your priorities need to be?

  • Overcoming your own limiting assumptions

16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation & Close

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