Strategy Thinking Workshop

When managers prepare the three year business plan are they simply modifying what has happened in the recent past? Is it really just a three year Operating Plan – business as usual!

Does the Business Plan address the impact that external forces of the market and the competition will have on sales and our profits?

Does it address our own capabilities and desires?

It needs to otherwise the business will be victim to other people's plans.

So your managers need strategic planning skills?

BUT

• Your managers probably think as functional specialists
• They will not think about how their function can best contribute to the group business strategic plan?
• And they may not change the traditional allocation of scarce resources to maximise their impact?

WHY? because most managers reach senior positions without ever gaining 'Strategy Development Skills'. So they continue to focus on their own areas of expertise in their own function

Strategic Direction runs Strategic Thinking Workshops where managers learn about the elements of a strategy and learn how to use a Strategy Development Process. This process helps them to undertake a competitive analysis and construct a business plan for their own function or business unit.

The process also has as an input the company strategic plan into which the function has to operate.

Benefits of the Strategy Workshop

After the workshop the participants will have the strategy development skills to:-

• Structure their thinking into a business strategy
• Use tools to develop a clear competitive analysis
• Focus the resources in the most effective manner
• Give a clearer focus and direction to plans
• Understand the barriers and risks inherent to the implementation

 Click here for 'Strategy Thinking Factsheet' printable information sheet