Alliance Training Seminars
Alliance Training and Consulting, Inc. presents

Strategic Planning For Success On-Site Training

This program helps managers define strategic department and organizational goals and create a strategic plan based how decisions made today will impact the future of the organization

Course Description/Agenda

A strategic planning workshop training managers on how to build and develop the strategic planning process and create a strategic plan for organizational change. This program helps managers define strategic department and organizational goals and create a strategic plan based how decisions made today will impact the future of the organization.

Training Benefits
To develop the strategic plan to help the organization focus its energy, ensure everyone in the organization is working toward the same goals, and to assess and adjust the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment. To use strategic planning as a management tool for making decisions and taking actions that define what the organization is, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus to the future.

Overview of Concepts and Deliverables Provided
Module One
Performance objective – By the end of Module One, a work plan is developed.

Identify specific issues the planning process should address
Clarify roles
Create a “planning committee”
Develop an organizational profile
Identify the information that must be collected to help make sound decisions

Module Two
Performance objective – By the end of Module Two, a draft mission statement and a draft vision statement is developed.

Purpose – why the organization exists, and what it seeks to accomplish
Business – main method or activity through which the organization tries to fulfill this purpose
Values – principles or beliefs that guide an organization’s members as they pursue the organization’s purpose

Module Three
Performance objective – By the end of Module Three, a database of quality information that can be used to make decisions, a list of critical issues which demand a response from the organization, and the most important issues the organization needs to deal with will have been developed.

Collecting internal and external perceptions about the organization
What are the organization’s internal strengths?
What are the organization’s internal weaknesses?
What external opportunities might move the organization forward?
What external threats might hold the organization back?
Evaluating programs’ impact on clients
Evaluating programs through cost/benefit analysis
Analyzing programs through competitive analysis
Defining previous implied strategies

Module Four
Performance objective – By the end of Module Four, an outline of the organization’s strategic directions, the general strategies, long-range goals, and specific objectives of its response to critical issues is developed.

Look at the three different categories of strategies:
Organizational strategy
Programmatic strategy
Functional strategies
Developing strategies
Examine the organization’s critical issues
Determine how the organization’s strengths and skills can be employed to address the critical issues
Analyze opportunities and strengths and looking for ways to synthesize the two
Explore and choosing the best approaches for the organization
Review additional strategies for your organization:
- Surplus maximization
- Revenue maximization
- Usage maximization
- Usage targeting
- Full cost recovery
- Partial cost recovery
- Budget maximization
- Producer satisfaction maximization
- Fees for service
- New revenue strategies
- Legitimization strategies
- Retrenchment strategies