Strategic Planning In The Public Sector

Why, when and how you should perform strategic planning in your orgalization or project

What you'll learn

Why strategic planning is important before acting

How to start to plan a new project or organisation

How to define or review a strategic framework

How to conduct a seminar on strategic planning

How to develop a strategic plan

What are the implications of strategic planning for your organization of project

What are the elements of a strategic framework: vision, mission, values, objectives

What are the fundamental steps such as probleme analysis or sector analysis

Requirements

No preriquisite is required. This course is essentielly for people with few or no experience in strategic planning.

Description

This course aims to show you how to develop an organisation's strategic plan. It covers the elements of planning needed to enable you to plan strategically while reviewing the basic questions you need to answer in order to develop a strategic plan and define the strategic framework specific to your organization or project.Strategic planning is at the heart of an organization's or project's work. Without a strategic framework, you cannot know where you are going or why. So it does not really matter how you get there! This course will give you the fundamentals to plan strategically. You can reproduce this method in any organisation or project that needs to do some strategic planning so that you can help your project or organisation achieve a significant impact.This course can help you if you have only limited experience in strategic planning. Perhaps you have never had to lead an organisation, project or department before. Or perhaps you have never been involved in the planning side of work before. Or perhaps you have always focused on implementing action programmes and now you realise the importance of strategic planning. If strategic planning is something new, or relatively new, to you, then you should find this course useful.In this course you will find practical exercises for you to use as you develop your strategic planning thinking as well as tips, checklist and multiple examples such as on how to conduct a four-day seminar on strategic planning.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome

Lecture 2 What is the course about

Lecture 3 Definitions of Main Terms

Lecture 4 Presentation of the Next Section

Section 2: How to Develop a Strategic Plan

Lecture 5 Presentation of the Section

Lecture 6 Calendar

Lecture 7 Participants

Lecture 8 Sector Analysis

Lecture 9 Preparatory Work

Lecture 10 Agenda and Process Planning

Section 3: Covering Fundamental issues

Lecture 11 Presentation of the section

Lecture 12 Collecting Inputs and Discussions

Lecture 13 Clarifying problems analysis

Lecture 14 Reviewing the existing working process

Lecture 15 Clarifying Planning Parameters

Lecture 16 Identifying Critical issues

Section 4: Defining the Strategic Framework

Lecture 17 Presentation of the section

Lecture 18 Vision

Lecture 19 Mission

Lecture 20 Values

Lecture 21 General objective

Lecture 22 Immediate/ specific objectives

Lecture 23 Strategic points

Section 5: Internal Implications on your Organization or Project

Lecture 24 Presentation of the section

Lecture 25 Organizational Structure

Lecture 26 Change management

Lecture 27 Potential problems

Lecture 28 What next?

Section 6: Conclusions

Lecture 29 Concluding Points

Project Manager working in a NGO or the Public Sector,Strategic Consultant in Change Management