Fortune magazine estimates 75% of all strategies and projects fail. This is often due to ineffective planning methods for turning strategic intent into executable projects and results. Strategy & Execution is a practical hands-on program designed to help your organization achieve critical goals by applying proven, no-nonsense strategic management solutions to your most important issues and opportunities.

Engaging and highly effective, this interactive workshop combines reality-tested techniques with a set of practical tools to boost the success of all types of projects, programs, and strategic initiatives.

Facilitated by Terry Schmidt, internationally-known author and founder of ManagementPro.com, Strategy & Execution presents a fresh approach to strategic issues while delivering proven tools to help you create effective plans and build committed teams.

Who Should Attend?
Developed for leaders, managers, team members, even cross-functional teams, this easy-to-use breakthrough system will show you how to think, plan, and act to achieve successful results at every level of the organization.

Using the tools and approaches presented in Strategy & Execution, attendees develop the skills needed in a variety of typical applications:

• Reinvent your department.
• Develop/update strategic plans.
• Build strong cross-functional teams.
• Restart stalled efforts or jump-start task forces.
• Develop IT solutions or improve critical systems processes.
• Develop/launch marketing efforts.
• Conduct major studies and analyses.
• Implement change initiatives.
  

What You Will Learn
Participants will be introduced to the Logical Framework, a simple yet powerful thinking tool that will help you to:

• Design practical action plans for any problem, idea, or opportunity.
• Align project objectives with organizational goals, vision, and strategic intent.
• Clearly communicate project strategy among stakeholders.
• Discover and eliminate potential pitfalls in advance.
• Get teams moving faster with clear plans that show who does what, when, and how.
• Improve working relationships and reduce conflict.
• Deliver on-target projects that increase performance, productivity, and profits.
  

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