These extraordinary times require extraordinary performance by every leader and manager throughout the organization. Strategic leaders succeed by remembering the adage: Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail. Learn proven approaches to create or adapt your current mission to guide robust planning, execution, and daily decision making to get the results you need to assure your organizations growth. Follow the path of leaders who have demonstrated results by mission-based planning and execution. Improve your outcomes systematically.

Course Objectives:

As a result of this webinar you will have the insights you need to:

• Stick to the fundamentals of strategic planning, decision making, and leadership to focus the organization for success
• Resist firefighting and quick tactical reactions
• Use your Mission to drive daily action and decision making
• Implement strategies to execute plans and track progress
• Cascade the plan through the organization to engage employees
• Get back on track when you are off plan
• Focus on results, not activity, to evolve your plan
• Avoid turning planning into a bureaucratic nightmare
• Demonstrate ROI for your planning efforts

Why Should You Attend:

Leadership is paramount in every organization. We know the leader shapes the organizational culture, which in turn determines success. The Ready-Fire-Aim tactical approach will not work for long in today's dynamic environment. Without a vision of where you're going and a robust mission to guide your journey, it's too easy to fall back into firefighting mode. Sacrificing the longer-term plan to the short-term gain has tripped up many unsuccessful leaders and managers. As a strategic leader, you will be relentless and resolute in following your vision through tough times and good. You will make decisions based on your mission and be flexible with their tactics. If you change goals, you base this on data and not whim. Learn these key components to succeed as a leader, execute your plans, and reach your goals. Earn the accolades you deserve for inspiring your team to perform and continuously improve.

Course Outline:

• Strategic Approach to Planning
        o Dump the To-Do List
        o Create a common vision to focus the organization
        o Developing the Mission to drive daily action and decision making
        o Developing goals, objectives, and strategies to fulfill mission
• Success factors to cascade the plan through the organization
        o Guidelines for implementation plans; who and why
        o Using planning to engage employees
        o Tracking progress against the plan
        o Getting back on track when we are off plan
• Stay focused on results, not activity, focused
        o Making strategic decisions
• Grow, evolve, and improve your plan
        o Demonstrate ROI for our planning efforts

What You Get:

• Training Materials
• Live Q&A Session with our Expert
• Participation Certificate
• Access to Signup Community (Optional)
• Reward Points

Who Will Benefit:

• CEO, Vice Presidents, and other Executives
• Executive Directors
• Managers and Department Managers
• Supervisors
• Team Leaders
• Project managers
• Leaders in any capacity