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Planning and Development for Senior Executives

Who should attend: 
Functional Heads, Senior and Middle Managers who want to improve and broaden their understanding of the organisational planning and development processes.
5 days
Course aims: 

This course is designed to provide participants with a framework from which they can develop and implement realistic, achievable and measurable departmental/ organisational plans.

Course benefits: 
  • Identify the purposes of organisational plans and understand how they link in with other planning processes
  • Understand the stages of the planning process
  • Acquire and develop competence of good departmental/ organisational planning
  • Understand how to develop and monitor departmental/ organisational plan successfully
  • Incorporate planning into the culture of your department/ organisation
Course outline: 
  • What is corporate plan? The key elements
  • The organisational planning and development process:
    • - the key guidelines
    • - unraveling the terminology
    • - who should be involved?
    • - what is the timescale? - long, medium and short term plans
    • - organisational planning models
  • Elements of corporate planning:
    • - mission, goals, objectives, values
    • - strategy evaluation and selection
    • - developing critical success factors
  • Relationship between long, medium and short-term plans; a feedback model
  • Developing a critical success factors: key indicators of progress and barriers to realisation
  • Putting departmental/ organisational plan into action: anticipating and overcoming the difficulties
  • Techniques for developing departmental/ organisational plans: task boarding, critical path analysis, financial assessment and justification of the business case: business process re-engineering
  • Annual rolling reviews
  • Identifying and using stakeholders: the objective support grid; creating a departmental/ organisational plan team
  • Securing involvement and commitment from others in the departmental/ organisational planning and development process