Strategic Financial Planning and Implementation Course
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Strategic Financial Planning and Implementation Course
Course Overview:
The Strategic Financial Planning and Implementation consolidate the skills necessary for the participants to be able to efficiently develop and implement financial strategies in their organizations.
At the conclusion of the training, the participants will be well aware of the key components of developing strategies, the contribution of the leaders in the execution of the strategies as well as specifics of formulating financial strategies with clear short term objectives.
The course covers important elements like marketing strategy, integration of operational management, SWOT, and evidence-based decision making. Further, they will be able to address resistance, coordinate phased change, and accomplish strategic leadership performance criteria with tools like the Balanced Scorecard.
The target group includes employees from executive and senior management levels; the course definitely attracts those who are accountable for company’s financial results and partake in strategic management.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the Strategic Financial Planning and Implementation training Course, participants will be able to:
- Understanding the concept of strategy making and its benefits
- To better understand the role of leadership in strategy making
- To understand the link between involvement and accountability
- To provide insights into developing implementation plans
- Know how to develop an actionable financial plan with controllable milestones
- Learn skills to understand and avoid the pitfalls of strategic planning
Who Should Attend?
Strategic Financial Planning and Implementation Training course, is ideal for :
- Executive level professionals with strategic and / or financial responsibility
- Senior level professionals who need to understand strategic implementation and its financial impact
- Middle level professionals in all areas of the business impacting and affected by strategic decisions
- All staff who are accountable for financial performance
Course Outlines:
What is Strategic and Financial Planning?
- The role of strategy in business and why it matters
- The ingredients of a good strategy
- Customer analysis and market segmentation
- Effective strategy making processes with proper financial planning
- Tools for understanding industry developments
- The core strategic financial choices for a business
- Who is responsible for strategy making and who should be held accountable?
Integrating Strategic and Financial Planning with Operational Management
- Contrasting management with strategic leadership
- The competencies of strategic leadership
- The top manager as strategist
- The CFO as strategist
- Using Scenario analysis and environmental scanning
- SWOT and other acronyms
- Corporate Culture and its effect on strategy and financial planning
- The operational manager’s role in strategy
Using Evidence for Strategic and Financial Planning
- Analyzing the market place and the customers
- Understanding the competition
- Financial analysis: past, present, and future
- Knowing the core strengths and weaknesses of your business
- Identifying your core competitive advantage
- Developing Vision statements that make a difference
- Developing mission statements that make a difference
- Examining alternative strategies
- Creating the strategic plan
Implementing Strategic and Financial Plans
- Using financial planning to prepare the ground for change in the business
- Communicating the strategy and having control points
- Overcoming internal political resistance
- Reviewing and measuring progress with proper variance analysis
- Turnaround and corrective measures
- Managing implementation as a continuous process
Becoming a Leader of Strategic Financial Planning
- Building strategy making and implementation into the role of managers
- Developing strategic leadership capability
- Creating organizational commitment to the business strategy
- Leading strategy making teams effectively
- Incentive plans
- Balanced Scorecard and other performance management systems
- Realistic action planning
- Case study
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