Planning is a vital skill that managers must practice on a regular basis, because it forms the basis of most other actions a manager must take. Among other things, it is an important part of setting goals and expectations for employees, which in turn helps them progress toward achieving personal and organizational objectives. Yes it is a tired cliché, but it is also a bedrock principle of management: failing to plan is planning to fail.

In our one-day Effective Strategic Planning management course, a senior Baker strategic planning consultant will guide you through a concise but comprehensive approach to strategic planning that will enable you to effectively address the near-and long-term needs of your team. This intensive, practice-driven management training class uses interactive exercises and case studies to help you learn to think strategically and communicate effectively while working with various members of your team.

On-Site Training: can be tailored to the needs of client organization and delivered on-site at time and location of client choice.

Objectives:

Participants will learn to:

What strategic planning means and how it differs from the kind of “maintenance” planning that is typical of most organizations.
How to implement an effective process to discover what it is that you don’t realize you need to know before you can create an effective strategic plan.
How to ask the right questions to help you avoid “killer assumptions.”
Ways to use proven strategies for incorporating your whole team in the strategic planning process.
The meaning of S.M.A.R.T. goals and how to incorporate them into your strategic planning process.
Best practice procedures to communicate strategic planning goals to the members of your team to increase buy in and maximize team performance in pursuit of these goals.
How to develop a meaningful evaluation process to measure the progress the team is making in implementing the plan so that needed adjustments can be made that will assure the plan succeeds.

For more information and pricing, please complete this form and we will email you a confidential Annotated Outline that will provide you with an hour by hour description of this training seminar.

Class Size:	8-20 (Please note that we can increase the class size for private seminars)
Length:	1 day
Time:	8:30 AM - 5:00 PM