Leadership: Strategic Planning and Decision Making

Overview

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.

Why you should Attend

• 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

Areas Covered in the Session

• 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

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