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A Guide to Strategic Thinking: Developing Competencies, Overcoming Hurdles and Building a Mission

A detailed analysis of differing types of strategy, building a mission, and how to develop competencies and overcome hurdles in order to achieve strategy cohesiveness

Learning Objectives

  • What is Strategic Thinking and how can it help your organization
  • Understand what strategy is in your context
  • Understand the challenges to developing a strategic approach
  • Learn about how policy and strategy differ
  • Identify and build competencies in strategic thinking
  • Learn how to analyse stakeholder groups and build strategic alliances
  • Understand the importance of internal communication
  • Understand how to use a range of techniques for creating a strategy and for planning

Programme

9:15
Registration
9:45
Welcome and Introduction to the Day
Tess Thompson MBA, MCIPD, Training and Organisational Development Consultant, TMT associates (confirmed)
10:00
What is strategy?
  • purpose, values, behaviour standards leading to strategy choice
  • vision, mission, value and behaviours
  • Their correlation in supporting strategy
  • This will include an exercise specific to mission statements
10:45
What is strategy in your context?
  • systems thinking/soft systems/radical
  • An explanation of the varying strategy choices
  • Examples of how these are assessed as viable options
  • Individual and group work
11:30
Coffee
11:45
Challenges to cohesive government strategy
  • Strategy conflict
  • Understanding who owns strategy in the Public sector
  • Difference between policy and strategy
  • Your current policies and links to the strategic overview
  • This will include group work
12:15
Techniques for creation and planning
  • Brainstorming
  • Mind mapping
  • Swot
  • Step/steepve/steeple
  • Internal v’s external factors
  • strategy planning
  • testing strategy
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Building competencies and links to the PSG
  • What is the current internal competency
  • Identifying competencies
  • How we build competency
  • Current behaviours that conflict with strategy
  • How you manage change
  • Understanding SMART behavioural objectives
  • Individual and group work
14:45
Analysis of stakeholder groups
  • Understanding stakeholders
  • Maximising their influences
  • Managing their interests
  • Importance of personal impact
  • Building alliances
  • Working these alliances
  • Group work
15:15
Internal communication
  • Potential impact of strategy
  • Employee engagement
  • Employee communication, what who and how
16:15
Discussion and Questions
16:30
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Please note that the programme is subject to change without notice

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Comments & Views

“A good day which touched on many interesting topics”

Beverly Wallace, MOD