Operational Strategic Planning

Course Description :

Effective operational strategic planning is essential to ensure the achievement of an organization’s operational goals. The course will give you the tools and techniques required to participate in operational strategic Planning within or an organization. It will use a variety of practical and theoretical teaching methods, including case studies, to ensure the most effective the most effective learning for participant

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Develop operational Strategic planning
• consulting with stakeholders
• plan for and allocate resources
• allocate appropriate costing and time frames to the plan
• match team member capability and build that capability over time
• identify risks and develop contingency plans
• Monitor performance aspects of the plan.

Course Outline

Operational planning

• What is operational planning
• Converting strategy into operational plans
• Effective planning concepts
• Consulting with stakeholders
• Setting SMART objectives

Developing operational plans

• Developing activities to achieve the objectives
• Sequencing the activities and allocating time frames
• Allocating resources
• Setting budgets

Risk and contingency plans

• Identifying risks
• Analysing risk
• Treating risks and developing contingency plans
• Monitoring risk

The team

• Assigning activities to appropriate team members
• Matching capabilities
• Building capability in the team
• Procuring human resources

Implementing the plan

• Monitoring performance
• Rectifying underperformance
• Variations to the plan
• Reporting requirements
• Managing the team