Course Objectives:

• Develop a plan to achieve the goals he wants for you and your company.
• Understand how to change himself and his organization from letting things happen to making things happen the way he wants
• Develop Strategic thinking in his organization.
• Determine where he and his company wants to be.
• Develop a Strategic plan for himself personally, himself professionally and his` organization.
• Develop Strategic thinking that will allow him to achieve success in any endeavor.
• Examine the keys to successful implementation
• Develop a measurable action plan that drives success.
• Identify, measure, and track critical success factors

Course Outline:

• Management of the strategic process as a matter of corporate survival
• How you think: Are you simply allowing things to happen, or are you making them happen the way you want?

•  What is a Strategic Plan?
•  How you think?
• Passion for Succeeding
• Business Model
• Setting the Right Goals the Right Way
• Measurements
• Continuous Improvement
• Two key roles
• Strategic Planning
• What is important?
• Vision
•  Values
• Mission Statement
• Competition
• SWOT analysis
• Marketing, Sales and Production
• Internal and external evaluation
• Who are our customers (internal and external)?
• Who are our Suppliers (internal and external)?
•  What are our competitor's strengths and weaknesses?
• Trends
• Market plan
• Sales plan
• Production Plan

• Finances

• Overhead
•  Variable costs
• Cost of
  • Quality (poor quality/good quality/great quality)
  • Time
  • Labor
  • Floor space/inventory
  • Other costs?
  • Breakeven analysis

• Bringing It All Together
• Develop Action plans
•  The importance of measurements/trends
•  Accountability
•  The importance of Strategic Planning aligned throughout an organization