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Writing a Strategy

Learn how to create professionally-written strategic documents in a business context, including a business case, communications strategy or decision-making document

Learning Objectives

  • Understand what factors help to create a successful strategy
  • Learn the skills to develop a logical, convincing business case, comms strategy or decision-making document
  • Discover useful templates and frameworks for developing strategies
  • Learn how to communicate information in a logical and clear manner

Programme

9:15
Registration
9:45
Chair's Introduction
Sue Calthorpe, Policy & Communications Training Consultant (confirmed)
10:00
What does a successful strategy look like?
Learning lessons from real-life examples
11:00
Some useful templates to create logical flow
11:30
Coffee
11:45
Setting up the case study
From writer to audience – who are the stakeholders in the strategy-writing process. Who can help and what can we do to help overcome barriers to success?
12:45
Lunch
13:45
Case study – planning and writing a strategy – a practical exercise
15:30
Peer review and edit
What's worked well and are there any unanswered questions?
16:15
Close

Please note that the programme is subject to change without notice

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“Excellent Event”

Sunita Nair, Jobscetre Plus, DWP