Too often company executives and professionals spend most of their time fixing day-to-day problems. They react to problems, rather than focusing on what they would like the company to be and then on making it happen. This program focuses on changing the way we think from reacting (responding to day-to-day problems, fixing and repairing) to developing plans for what we want to have happened and then implementing the plans.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Learn how to develop a plan to achieve the goals you want for you and your company, and develop strategic thinking in your organization/business unit/team.
Determine where you and your company want to be.
Develop a strategic plan for - your organization (company/division/business unit/team and for yourself personally.
Identify the principles and mechanisms that drive successful implementation.
Develop measurable action plans that result in success. Identify, measure, and track critical success factors.
Business Managers
Team Leaders
Process Leaders
Functional Managers
Project Managers
Newly-appointed Senior Managers
What is the strategy – core concept and definition of terms?
What is a Strategic Plan?
How do we think?
Analytical thinking.
Creative thinking.
What is a Leader? - The difference between leadership and management.
Strategic and operational goals – the significance and difference.
Two key roles.
Visionary - the role of the Chief Executive Officer.
Building a strategy/business planning team.
Mini-case 1: tutor presentation and group discussion.
Two key roles.
Review of Day One – questions and answers.
Cost-based strategies versus differentiation-based strategies.
Concept of the “business model”: the integrated supply-demand chain.
Vision, Mission, and Values – case examples, class discussion, and guidelines.
Practical group exercise on Vision/Mission statements.
Analysis of the business environment (1) – the SPECTER technique.
Analysis of the business environment (2) - the 5-forces technique.
Mini-case 2: group work and presentation/discussion.
Review of Day Two – questions and answers.
How to evaluate market structures, trends, and prospects.
SWOT analysis and the strategy matrix.
Strategic choice – how to make strategy selection decisions.
Marketing plans and sales plans.
Market plan – capturing value rather than just volume.
Sales plan – how to choose and fulfill market opportunities.
Achieving outstanding sales results in an increasingly competitive world is a difficult task. Only by establishing a modern sales force management system and by training sales management personnel effectively, can today’s firm compete. The Certified Sales Manager course provides frontline sales managers with the knowledge, skills, and tools they need to drive bottom-line performance. It focuses on improving organization and forecasting skills, as well as other technical competencies aimed at guiding salespeople towards higher performance.
Soft skills training is training that focuses on developing skills such as communication, teamwork, and problem-solving. Other soft skills include emotional intelligence, a positive attitude, and taking the initiative
Managerial accounting is an activity that provides financial and non-financial information to business managers and other internal decision-makers of an organization. This course examines how managerial accounting information is gathered, and how it is used by business professionals to make effective plans & decisions. Lessons such as fundamentals of managerial accounting cost accounting concepts, and managerial accounting approaches will provide you with the concepts, procedures, and analytical skills you'll need to make informed decisions in today's challenging business world
Enterprise Risk Management known as (ERM) has evolved considerably since the seventies. From simply 'buying' insurance, it has now grown in importance to become a prime function in many organizations as part of a bigger system known as Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) which starts with corporate governance and ends with compliance. ERM is the function of studying the risks that may hinder a corporation's ability to achieve its goals and then deciding how to overcome those risks. Studies regarding risk management were done by different organizations, including ISO which issued ISO 31000 on risk management. However, the most accepted ERM system is the one designed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). This system, which is the one covered in this course, teaches the steps needed to control risk. It starts with the evaluation of the internal environment and the setting of objectives which are, mainly, a result of the tone at the top of the organization, the directives from corporate governance as well as the vision, mission, and corporate strategies. Then, the course goes through the steps management needs to consider in order to identify and assess risk and decide on proper risk responses and controls. The course ends with how to monitor, communicate, and report risk. In addition, the course looks at risk in different organizational areas such as strategy, reporting, compliance, operations, financial and physical risk as well as risk in different industries.
Process industry businesses are constantly seeking for ways to increase efficiency while posing the fewest risks to people's lives and property. This is feasible if these organizations are successful in identifying the relevant risks and setting up suitable safeguards against their impacts.
Process industry businesses are constantly seeking for ways to increase efficiency while posing the fewest risks to people's lives and property. This is feasible if these organizations are successful in identifying the relevant risks and setting up suitable safeguards against their impacts.