Course Description
Regardless of goals, there’s one thing that can be said about every strategic planning process: The stakes are high. So you need to get equipped with a complete and agile toolbox of facilitation techniques and skills. How can you get the right people—and get them to actively contribute? How can you prevent assertive personalities from taking the session off-track? How can you make sure your goals are effectively defined and that you have all the right elements in place?
This course combines effective facilitation with strategic planning. It’s carefully crafted into three segments covering early discussions and agreements, strategic planning facilitation and implementation. You’ll leave with hands-on experience and a comprehensive strategic planning toolbox that effectively prepares you to launch into any strategic planning facilitation.
Pre-Work: The pre-work content and activities are provided as a foundation for all participants to ensure the use of consistent terminology in the program, and as a facilitation and strategic planning refresher. The pre-work serves as a review of core skills to establish a common departure point and will only be reviewed at an intermediate level in the course.
How You Will Benefit- Gain a clear understanding of your role in the facilitation process
- Adopt a set of proven and commonly used tools
- Know which discussions and decisions should occur prior to your strategic planning session
- Ensure up-front clarity and agreement regarding expected results
- Decide the best strategic planning approach/process to use and customize it
- Determine clear processes, logistics and considerations throughout the entire process
- Build in metrics and schedule meetings to assess milestones and measure progress towards goals
- Get buy-in early and throughout the process to optimize success
Online Accreditation
1.2 CEU, 14 CPE, 12 PDCs
What you will learn
- Establishing agreements, consistent definitions and success metrics
- Setting parameters for team selection and role assignments
- Understanding and choosing an appropriate strategic planning model, frame of reference, and related decisions • Agreeing on logistics, scheduling needs and considerations
- Knowing the key components of the strategic planning process
- Translating the strategic planning process into tactical action and communication plans
- Enabling innovative thinking in managers and leaders
- Using simulation to demonstrate your understanding of new practices and tools
- Delivering organizational results through an effectively facilitated strategic planning session
- Establishing next steps and moving toward the execution phase
- Conducting regular review sessions to check progress towards milestones
- Establishing processes to align the organization, communicate the plan, and get organizational buy-in
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Date & Time: May 30, 2024 09:00 AM ET
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Cancelation Policy
If you cannot attend an event, you may send someone else in your place. If that isn’t an option for you, cancellations received up to five working days before the event are refundable, minus a registration service charge ($10 for one-day events; $25 for multiple-day events). After that, cancellations are subject to the entire seminar fee, which you may apply toward a future seminar. Please note that if you don’t cancel and don’t attend, you are still responsible for payment.
