Course Description:

Often company executives or managers focus on fixing day to day problems. They react to problems, rather than focusing on what they would like for the company to be and then making it happen. This 5-day course focuses on changing the way the managers think from reacting (responding to day-to-day problems, fixing and repairing) to developing plans of what they want to have happen and then implementing the plans.

Course Goal:

To enhance the participants’ Knowledge, Abilities and Skills necessary to change from letting things happen to making things happen the way we want

Course Objectives:

By the end of the Course, participant will be able to:

1. Develop a plan to achieve the goals he wants for you and your company.
2. Understand how to change himself and his organization from letting things happen to making things happen the way he wants
3. Develop Strategic thinking in his organization.
4. Determine where he and his company wants to be.
5. Develop a Strategic plan for himself personally, himself professionally and his` organization.
6. Develop Strategic thinking that will allow him to achieve success in any endeavor.
7. Examine the keys to successful implementation
8. Develop a measurable action plan that drives success.
9. Identify, measure, and track critical success factors

Course Outline:

• Management of the strategic process as a matter of corporate survival
• How you think: Are you simply allowing things to happen, or are you making them happen the way you want?

• 1. What is a Strategic Plan?
  2. How you think?
  3. Passion for Succeeding
  4. Business Model
  5. Setting the Right Goals the Right Way
  6. Measurements
  7. Continuous Improvement
  8. Two key roles
  9. Strategic Planning
  10. What is important?
  11. Vision
  12. Values
  13. Mission Statement
  14. Competition
  15. SWOT analysis
  16. Marketing, Sales and Production
  17. Internal and external evaluation
  18. Who are our customers (internal and external)?
  19. Who are our Suppliers (internal and external)?
  20. What are our competitor’s strengths and weaknesses?
  21. Trends
  22. Market plan
  23. Sales plan
  24. Production Plan

• Finances

• 1. Overhead
  2. Variable costs
  3. Cost of

• Quality (poor quality/good quality/great quality)
• Time
• Labor
• Floor space/inventory
• Other costs?

• Breakeven analysis
  • Bringing It All Together

• 1. Develop Action plans
  2. The importance of measurements/trends
  3. Accountability
  4. The importance of Strategic Planning aligned throughout an organization