CERTIFICATE PROGRAM:
Reinventing Strategic Planning:
State-of-the-Art Best Practices Research

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Are your associates all working off different business plans and going in all different directions? Do you want to transform your performance from marginal to best in class? Are you ready to take our organization into a living-breathing no nonsense planning cycle that won’t gather dust? Join Stephen Haines and explore a step-by-step approach to applying systems thinking to strategic planning and the potential of transforming your company by creating a common vision, purpose and goals.

This certificate provides the steps and processes needed to establish a process that will help you and your entire organization to collectively develop that vision and develop a path to achieve it. You’ll learn how to quickly become a leader and business partner with senior management.

This Reinventing Strategic Planning certificate continues the learning begun in the Strategic and Systems Thinking: Proven, Practical Approaches and Easy to Learn Steps certificate program which begins December 15, 2008.

Discover the top 12 common mistakes most organizations make in their strategic planning processes—and the antidotes to them based on proven 21 st century best practices research. You’ll gain enhanced knowledge, skills and success in strategic planning and avoid falling into the traps that almost all organizations do. You’ll explore the results of the Strategic IQ Audits conducted in numerous organizations by the Haines Centre in the past six years, including crucial strengths that most organizations possess, the most common strategic planning mistakes and their related solutions.

Certificate Program:
Reinventing Strategic Planning
 

• Stephen Haines
  Founder and CEO, Haines Centre for Strategic Management,
  Author of numerous strategic management books including, Strategic and Systems Thinking: The Winning Formula
   

Prior to the first session: you will need to read each of the follow 4 page articles.

1. Reinventing Strategic Planning
2. The ABCs of Strategic Planning
3. Creating Customer Value
4. Parallel Involvement Process

After the first session: you will be required to read the following (approximately 30 minutes in length)

State-of-the-Art Best Practices Research Report on Reinventing Strategic Planning

After the second session: you will take a survey on “ Haines Centre's 25 Best Strategic Management Practices”

After the third session: you will take a survey called “Strategic Management: It’s Simple”.
 

Attend this certificate program and you will:

• Learn to begin with the end in mind.
• Break out of the MOS (More Of the Same) box and gain an understanding of a solid Strategic Management System.
• Learn to distinguish between a SWOT ( Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats ) vs Future Environmental Scanning.
• Explore platitudes and form over substance for your ideal future vision/mission or value statements.
• Examine market positioning – the PhD of Strategy.
• Explore enshrining activities vs linking key success measures/goals to your vision.
• Examine ritualistic and meaningless SWOT analyses vs. best practices assessments.
• Discuss the confusion of means and ends regarding goals, objectives and strategies.
• Explore the importance of shared core strategies across all departments in your company.
• Examine the benefits of cascading your strategic plan down to a three-year business plans for all your business units.
• Learn to cascade planning and accountability to all employees.
• Learn how to gain ownership and commitment of senior and middle management.
   

This hands-on certificate is ideal for chief learning officers, training directors and managers, strategic planners, business development specialists, project managers, OD professionals, trainers, implementation leaders, instructional design managers and specialists, e-learning managers, and lead persons.

Prior to attending this certificate program, we recommend you first attend Stephen Haines’ Strategic and Systems Thinking: Proven, Practical Approaches and Easy to Learn Steps certificate program with starts December 15, 2008.
 

This certificate will include PowerPoint presentations, use of your own case study, lecturettes, stories and examples as well as surveys to fill out between sessions.
 

To participate in this program most effectively, you are required to have basic Strategic and Systems Thinking skills. Prior to attending this certificate program, we recommend you first attend Stephen Haines ’ Strategic and Systems Thinking: Proven, Practical Approaches and Easy to Learn Steps certificate program which starts December 15, 2008. Sign up for both courses and save $150.

This certificate is about the application of Strategic and Systems Thinking and its research—to Reinventing Strategic Planning for 21 st century success. It requires Reinventing Strategic Planning into Strategic Management (Planning, People, Leadership, Change to deliver Customer Value).
 

This course is comprised of three (3) live online sessions. Below are the dates of live sessions for the next offering of this program. All sessions start at 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York time). See below for the time of the sessions listed in various time zones.

For times in other cities, visit this link. Live sessions will be recorded for those who wish to go back and review or who must miss a live session.
 

Register for this certificate program now to reserve a virtual seat. See below.

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