Conceiving, Planning, and Facilitating Smart Strategies
Alumni Voices
"This course is an excellent and easy to understand primer on the how to's of strategy design and implementation."
Julie Mekarski Director, Organizational Development Queen's University Kingston
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The truly successful strategy creation process is owned, operated, and delivered by the organization's senior team and critical others -- internal or external experts, strategic partners, customers, suppliers, entire groups of employees – rather than by outside experts. Creating an organization's strategy means asking and answering a series of big, important questions. Successful leaders realize that competitive advantage can only be sustained if organizational members develop strategic thinking capabilities, making the strategy creation process an in-house initiative. Indeed, the strategic conversations themselves may be just as important as the plan that is created, especially in the long run.
Who better to design this process and orchestrate the critical conversations than the organization development practitioner? In Business Strategy, you will learn the principles of strategic thinking as well as a number of planning processes that can be employed depending on organizational needs and culture. From this highly interactive program, you will come away with the skills to design and lead the strategy creation process. And you will form a network with other leaders who are developing these important strategic skills to help their organizations succeed.
Your opportunity
During this three-day program you will learn to:
Understand the principles of strategic thinking
Develop strategic thinking competencies and apply them to your organization's situation
Become familiar with the major strategic thinking and planning models of the discipline
Apply those strategic models in our interactive strategy simulation “Harmon Health” and get immediate feedback of results
Think through what your organization needs to do to focus on the right strategies for the right customers
Design and facilitate a strategy session involving key stakeholder groups at various levels of your organization
Who benefits?
HR and OD professionals who want to explore and develop varied competencies to contribute with confidence to the setting of an organization’s strategy.
Organizational benefits
By effectively transferring the learnings from this program, the sponsoring organization will see the following positive results:
Significant savings in bringing the strategy creation process in-house
Well designed and coherent strategy
Organization-wide ownership in a new or revised strategy
Date and Fees
There are no scheduled instances of this program at the time. Please check back later.
Includes registration, tuition, lunches, some dinners and all instructional materials.
If you register and pay two months prior to the opening date of the program, you will receive a $150 discount. Sessions begin on the Monday at 8:30 a.m.and end on the Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.
