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Strategic Management Skills
Oak Innovation
$49.95
Description
Training material on strategic management by Oak Innovation
You’re looking to deliver a course on strategic management, but for some reason, you’re not getting all the content you need, and don’t have the time required to develop everything from scratch.
Today, we’ll share our pre-written training material and how you can use it to deliver your own strategic management training courses.
Target audience
Strategic management is perhaps one of the most overused but essential concepts in companies. What was once whispered within board rooms only is now finding itself discussed on production floors and even canteens.
And yes, strategic management skills have always been invaluable to companies. But, these skills are more relevant today than ever before. All employees must possess a better understanding of this vital skill.
This strategic management skills training program will fundamentally address the needs of business managers and senior executives responsible for leading strategic management and for all line staff that are required to participate within such actions. Supervisors, owner-managers, new managers, and line-staff will find this training course particularly useful.
Consider supporting this course delivery with content from our strategic measurement skills and leadership and culture course and as part of your training effort.
Course objectives
Upon completion of this strategic management training course, your participants will be able to:
– Understand the importance of strategic management
– Identify the characteristics of strategy managers
– Understand the ten primary strategy schools
– Introduce a Five-Step Strategy Model
– Outline the vision and mission for their organization
– Identify strategic and financial objectives
– Understand how to put in place, execute and evaluate a strategy
What you get
You will instantly receive the following training course materials to deliver your own strategic management training courses:
- 47-page participant manual
- 51 powerpoint slides
- Practical exercises
- Further reading
- Course evaluation form
- Action plan
Bonus free training materials available
You will also receive the following free training guides:
- Training icebreakers
- How to select training materials
- Training games
- How to increase participation
- Learn to improve your questioning skills
- How to improve your listening skills
- Learn how to deal with difficult people
- How to evaluate training courses
Course overview
Strategic management – If you catch yourself wondering how to present this course to your audience, consider a new mindset. For example, there’s nothing better than consistently taking care of the needs of your audience. It’s essential to recognize the expectations of your audience. Shift your course delivery style to something like, “When you are thinking about strategic management, it can be most effective when you understand why we need a strategy.”
At a foundational level, we provide all the content required to deliver this course. And, one of the core objectives of the material is to share why we need strategic managers within companies. While the concept of strategic managers is new, it will likely be new to some of your audience. As a result, try to incorporate examples from your experiences or industry-specific standards to foster more engagement. Understand that if these examples and experiences might seem small, they’re hugely crucial to embed learning.
When delivering this material, remind yourself why your audience is coming together in the first place. Your role in this section of the training course is to help them to understand what strategy is and the associated benefits to the company. However, for your audience, when they’re on the front lines facing daily stresses, it’s easy for them not to realize the positive aspects of strategic management. Use the content to inspire and motivate them on the key advantages of a strategic plan to a company.
- Sets direction
- Defines the organization
- Focuses effort
- Provides consistency
The Strategy Schools – While being used to familiar tasks can help us all feel more comfortable in our roles, expanding our knowledge can help us broaden our skills base and put different viewpoints into perspective. This is something we frequently hear from clients when discussing leadership skills development needs. Use the content provided to explore the following ten strategy schools, as identified by Mintzberg et al. (1998).
- Design
- Planning
- Positioning
- Entrepreneurial
- Cognitive
- Learning
- Power
- Cultural
- Environmental
- Configuration
At the end of this section, take a moment to help your audience to unwind. This “time-out” helps your audience to deal with any questions that have developed from the course content to date. Paying attention to the needs of your audience will help you use the content to release any stresses they may have, and help clarify and focus attention on the learning objectives of this course.
Five-Step Model – No matter how busy your audience may be, and even if they spend long hours days performing their duties, the following five-step model will add considerable value. Also, a quick guide through this model will raise opportunities to use this model in so many settings.
Then, use the course material to detail a simple five-step model.
Depending on the focus and target of a strategy, you may want to adopt different strategic management models. Here is a simple five-step model:
- Develop a vision and mission statement
- Set objectives
- Create a strategic plan to achieve objectives
- Implement and execute
- Evaluate and correct
Be sure to ask your audience how this model fits in with their role, and don’t hesitate to share your experiences and reflections.
Course objectives
Upon completion of this training course in strategic management, leadership, and culture skills your participants will be able to:
– Understand an effective organization
– Understand the important role of culture
– Shape an appropriate culture
– Understand the crucial role that leadership plays
– Distinguish between autocratic and participative leadership styles
What you get
You will instantly receive the following training course materials to deliver your strategic management, leadership, and culture training courses:
- 49-page participant manual
- 77 powerpoint slides
- Practical exercises
- Further reading
- Course evaluation form
- Action plan
Bonus free training materials available
You will also receive the following free training guides:
- Training icebreakers
- How to select training materials
- Training games
- How to increase participation
- Learn to improve your questioning skills
- How to improve your listening skills
- Learn how to deal with difficult people
- How to evaluate training courses
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Frequently asked questions from strategic management training courses
What is a good definition of a strategy?
Here are two excellent definitions. “The strategic aim of any business is to earn a return on capital, and if in any particular case the return, in the long run, is not satisfactory, the deficiency should be corrected or the activity abandoned” (Sloan, 1963) “Strategy is the determination of the basic, long-term goals and objectives of an enterprise, and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for those goals” (Chandler, 1962)
What is Strategy?
Each part of a strategy will serve different parts of a company. And generally, a strategic plan will help several tasks relating to:
- Operating the business
- Consolidating the competitive position of the company
- Meet the needs and expectations of customers
- Achieving performance targets
- Everything you should be doing!
What is the purpose of strategic management?
A strategy:
- Sets direction
- Defines the organization
- Focuses effort
- Provides consistency
Why does a company need a strategic plan?
Don’t forget this critical fact; companies need a strategic plan to respond to:
- Market conditions
- Technology
- Political and legislative conditions
- New opportunities
- Evolving customer needs
What are the characteristics of dynamic strategy managers?
Without a good manager serving and delivering a strategy, a company won’t perform nearly as well as it's competitors. The main characteristics of strategically-orientated manager are to:
- Boldly go
- Emphasize out-innovating the competition
- Vision/direction-setter
- Take risks
- Be responsive
Outline a simple five-step model of strategic management?
Depending on the focus and target of a strategy, you may want to adopt different strategic management models. Here is a simple five-step model:
- Develop a vision and mission statement
- Set objectives
- Create a strategy to achieve objectives
- Implement and execute
- Evaluate and correct
What are the ten mains schools of strategic management?
While there have been many schools of thought in the area of strategic management, Mintzberg et al. (1998) identified the following ten strategy schools:
- Design School
- Planning School
- Positioning School
- Entrepreneurial School
- Cognitive School
- Learning School
- Power School
- Cultural School
- Environmental School
- Configuration School
What are the three main parts of a strategic plan?
The most important thing you can do for your strategy when either creating it or redeveloping it is to ensure that it focuses on these three main parts. These are:
- Developing a strategic vision and business mission
- Detailing strategic and financial objectives
- Creating a strategy for achieving the objectives
Can I edit the content and add my company logo?
Yes. You can now add your logo and customize the course content freely using Microsoft Word and Powerpoint. You can also deliver the course materials where, when, and as often as needed.
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