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Strategic Planning

Creating Your Competitive Advantage
Note: This program is available in two approaches:

C4PD facilitators work directly with Senior Leadership to guide your organization, step-by-step through the Strategic Planning Process. This is typically completed in a multi-meeting process.
C4PD instructs attendees on the end-to-end Strategic Planning Process in a workshop setting. Once back on the job, attendees may contact C4PD for assistance in implementing the Strategic Planning Process.

At the heart of your business and its on-going competitive advantage is its willingness to actively participate and implement a strategic plan that will link line-of-sight for every employee to the Mission and Vision of the organization. Successful organizations became that way because they planned it. If a lack of planning in your organization finds your employees blindly wandering through their days, you, as the organization’s Leadership, must commit to getting all employees on the path to achieving the Mission, Vision and Goals of your organization. This course will guide you through any and all elements of the complete Strategic Planning Process. In C4PD Strategic Planning Approach, participants will:

Define the TOTAL end-to-end planning process—part of a plan is not enough.
Understand why there is no shallow end in the “planning pool”.
Clarify and reconcile Strategic Planning terminology—gain consensus.
Engage in “component-specific” exercises designed to isolate and identify potential organizational opportunities at the various steps of the planning process.
Create/update and document the organization’s Mission Statement—“Who we are”, “What we do”.
Create/update and document the organization’s Vision Statement—identifying and clarifying “Where we are going” – leveraging your competitive advantage.
Develop Strategic Goals that support accomplishment of the organization’s Mission and Vision.
Clarify how Operational Objectives/Strategies will be developed (with ownership) for each Strategic Goal.
Discuss in detail the development of individual employee objectives with “line-of-sight” to the organization’s Mission, Vision and Values (optional).
Discuss methods for monitoring and ensuring individual goal achievement.
Share a simple and effective “Strategic Plan Template” that makes your plan your servant and not your master.
Clarify strategies to ensure your plan remains “evergreen”—that you retain your competitive advantage.

Personal Planning

Where Are You Going - Creating Purpose in Your Life
If you have ever caught yourself wondering just where in the world you are going with your life, this course is for you. Often we let the external forces of life direct our wants, needs and behaviors. In this course you will be provided the opportunity and means by which to identify life goals and how to go about achieving them. Participants will:

Understand the evasiveness of planning and goal-setting.
Discuss the importance of planning and goal-setting.
Discuss types of plans.
Identify the sources of goals.
Discover how our wants and needs, personality and personal assessment create opportunities for goal-setting.
Develop goals for personal and professional development.