Event - Strategic Planning Made Easy
Delegates will learn how to create a strategic plan using visual thinking. The result is a participation map - an easy way to look at the environment, strategic plan and resource deployment priorities.
Purpose
This workshop will show delegates an easy visual method of strategic planning. It uses Conduco’s unique participation mapping process, which allows the simple and highly visual creation of a strategic plan.
Background
Strategic planning more often than not results in failure and often the failure occurs even before the strategy begins implementation. The traditional approaches used in organisations to create strategic plans tend towards long, verbose reports, detailed financial schedules or perhaps worst of all, “death by Powerpoint”! These techniques rarely stimulate and engage and so breed resistance to the change set out by the plan.
Conduco’s Participation Mapping process ensures that the plan for the business is not only viable but is also coherent and most importantly easily accessible. This means it is an easy, enjoyable and stimulating way to engage teams in planning.
The Participation Map gives a clear and visual depiction of an organisation’s strategy. It works because it is a tool specifically designed to handle complexity. So, if you prefer to use a road map or atlas rather than a set of instructions this is the workshop for you.
Participants and Benefit
Participants who are involved in creating strategy or helping and facilitating strategy can expect the following benefits:
- A new methodology that creates ‘maps’ rather than conventional plans
- A creative, collaborative and engaging approach to strategic planning
- A living and dynamic approach to mobilising strategy and managing implementation on an ongoing basis
Workshop Facilitators
Paul Oliver, a former BT director of strategy and development, will facilitate the workshop. He worked with BT for 18 years, having held a range of line management and staff positions.
Paul is a research associate with the Advanced Institute of Management Research, a member of international advisory committee for Learning, Organizing and Complexity as part of the International Conference on Complexity and Society and is also a non-executive director of a number of small businesses. He is an alumnus of the Strategic Leadership Programme at Templeton College, Oxford, has a degree in Business Studies from Middlesex University Business School and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Course Content
The workshop lasts one day and will include coaching in how to create and use a Participation Map, including clear examples.
Delegates will also have the chance to construct a draft Participation Map for their own organisations and attend a free ‘clinic' with Conduco's experts at the end of the event.
Programme Details
If you wish to enrol for the programme or want more details please email programmes@conduco-consulting.com, complete the contact form or call 01895 834994.
The cost of the programme is £395 per delegate, (excluding VAT).
Client Feedback From Previous Conduco Programmes
“Very thought provoking session that included immediately actionable tools”
“Many, many thanks for an incredibly professional and helpful workshop”
“Powerful model, excellent, insightful”
“I am glad I came and I’ve decided to use the approach for refashioning my unit”
“Great for SMEs and small businesses…even more so for big organisations”
