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Strategic Planning for Managers
We proudly present this workshop. It is guaranteed to help you write an effective strategic plan for your company’s business goals. As a result of attending, you will have a roadmap of your future business direction and priorities.
Audience:
Any manager who is charged with planning the future of their team, department or organization and feels challenged with writing a strategic plan.Learn how to Create a Roadmap that Identifies your Priorities and directs your future.
Overview:
Strategic planning and goal setting are useful processes only when they are focused on achieving a realistic end result that fits the organization's values, mission, and current situation. This session provides practical skills and insights for proactive planning that works!
Program Highlights:
- Learn a new and simpler process for strategic planning
- Tools and techniques for strategic planning
- How to communicate from the viewpoint of your stakeholders
- 2 classic decision making tools for strategic planning
- Developing realistic goals and objectives
- How to design a strategic planning session for your workplace.
Results of the Workshop:
When you leave the program you will have a draft of a Strategic Plan for your company. Your draft will reflect the new tools; techniques and tips learned that day. Topics focused on for the day are as follows:- Identifying barriers to successful planning and goal-setting
- Understanding strategic planning
- Workshop Workbook: Strategic Planning, by Sweetnam Communications
Preparation for the Program:
Please bring the following information with you to the workshop (if available.)
- Your company’s mission, vision, and/or goals.
- List of company stakeholders: suppliers, customers, employees, etc.
- A simple list of your company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and critical issues.
Meet Your Presenter:
Sherry Sweetnam is an internationally known author, speaker and consultant. Sherry is a speaker who inspires people to change themselves and their business culture by presenting classic, simple and challenging communication truths. Throughout the years she has been an on-going speaker at national conventions such as Lakewood Publications, ASAE, SOCAP, and ASTD.
Some of her Fortune 500 clients include: Aetna, Andersen Windows, American Express, Cargill, Colgate-Palmolive, General Electric, General Mills, IBM, IDS, Honeywell, International Paper, Northwest Airlines, Pillsbury and The Waldorf Astoria.
Her best-selling book, The Executive Memo, (Oak Grove Publishing, 1999), has sold over 17,000 copies and is in its 5th printing.The book is used in corporations, non-profit and government organizations throughout the U.S., Japan and Argentina.
For more information about Sherry, visit her website at: www.SweetnamCommunications.com.
Dates / Locations:
The dates for this full day seminar can be customized to fit you and your employees needs. the seminar can be held at the St. Cloud State University Campus or a site of your selection.
Registration Procedure:
St. Cloud State University , Center for Continuing Studies is perfectly equipped to handle the registration procedure if desired.
We Are Determined to Please
We, at SCSU's Center for Continuing Studies, are happy to accommodate you. Please feel free to call us if you would like more information or have questions. To ensure full participation in this workshop, please inform us about any dietary requirements or physical challenges which should be addressed prior to your arrival.
Customized Corporate Education
The Center for Continuing Studies invites inquiries from the community throughout the State of Minnesota about developing targeted programs specific to their individual needs. If you or your business is interested in having a training package designed for your needs, our staff can be reached at (320) 308-3081.
