Setting Business Goals, Targets & Deliverables

Course CodeCO00064

Certified Course

Available Online Dates

This course is delivered online. Choose the session date that suits your schedule.

Online

Dates

Duration
1 Week
Price
€2,400

Course Overview

Strategic planning is key to long-term organizational success but requires vision beyond past trends. This seminar focuses on preparing organizations for a dynamic future by setting focused, competitive goals. Participants will explore strategy concepts, formulation approaches, and real-world case studies, with hands-on group work and practical insights from expert-led examples. Position your organization for sustained success in an ever-changing environment.

Course Objectives

  • Understand how to design visionary strategic plans
  • Work out how to translate strategic plans into action plans
  • Examine a model for organizational and individual assessment
  • Provide insights into strategic planning problems to avoid
  • Identify and learn from examples of strategic success and failure
  • Understand the nature of the organizational life cycle
  • Provide insights into productive contingency planning

Who Should Attend

This seminar is designed for:

  • Senior Managers and Executives
  • Strategic Planning and Business Strategy Professionals
  • Business Unit Leaders and Department Heads
  • General Managers and Operations Managers
  • Project and Program Managers involved in strategy execution
  • Business Development and Transformation Managers
  • Management Consultants and Analysts
  • Entrepreneurs and Business Owners
  • Functional Managers (Finance, HR, Marketing, Operations) involved in planning
  • Middle Managers preparing for strategic leadership roles
  • Professionals seeking to develop strategic planning, execution, and organizational transformation skills

Course Outline

  • Introduction to the seminar – structure, and content
  • Strategy - concept, and significance
  • “Competitive Positioning” versus “Blue Sky” approaches
  • Achieving competitive advantage through flexibility and agility
  • The interaction of strategy, structure and business processes
  • Gathering information and intelligence for the SWOT analysis
  • Mini-cases and group discussion – “Cost versus Differentiation”
  • Review of Day One