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Updated with new, powerful tools for planning during uncertainty!
 
Taught by International Association for Strategy Professionals Pioneer,
Valerie MacLeod, SMP!

This workshop has been approved by The International Association for Strategy Professionals (IASP) for exam preparation for the SPP and SMP exams.

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Manage Strategically
  Using The Systems Thinking Approach® to Strategic Management

A simple but profound method for everything from strategic & operational planning to prioritizing your daily work. While blending risk into the mix.

Applicable to "fast planning" during uncertain times.

For leaders and strategic planners!

Lack of Clarity?
 Not reaching goals?

Do you have a strategic plan but you're not hitting your targets?

Need a planning system that helps you manage throughout the year?

Is there disagreement on the best way to approach planning and work?

Do staff struggle to balance operations and risk mitigation?

The Systems Thinking Approach® to Strategic Management

We have included four areas in our Strategic Management Process that are virtually ignored by the competition:

  1. Preparing to Plan - What do you need to do BEFORE you plan to ensure the planning runs successfully? Who should be involved on the planning team? What process are you using? What's the commitment? Who's supporting us?

  2. Involving Key Others - You can't have everyone on the planning team, so who else needs to support the plan's implementing & how do we involve them?

  3. Preparing to Implement - What needs to be in place so that the plan can be successfully implemented? How do we rally support? How do we keep the plan vital?

  4. Risk Mitigation - Are you confident in the board's and leadership's risk understanding? Can managing risk be cascaded to operational levels?

 

Introducing

The Systems Thinking Approach® to
Strategic Management 

$2,295 USD + GST ($2,995 CDN + GST)

Four live webinar sessions:

August 15, 17, 22 & 24, 2023 at 1pm EDT

(in time for the IASP Fall exam cycle: September 4 - 17)


at 1 pm Eastern, 12 pm Central, 11 am Mountain, 10 am Pacific

Included: Recordings of live sessions for six months

REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR SERIES: THE SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH® TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT!

If you cannot make the August webinar, we have a fall webinar scheduled:

October 31 and November 2, 7 & 9, 2023 at 1pm EDT

(in time for the IASP Winter exam cycle: November 27 - December 8)

Here's What You'll Receive When You Enroll Before 

Four live webinar sessions taught by ASP Pioneer, Valerie MacLeod, SMP.

Learn a practical way to create more successful strategic plans that integrate risk into strategy development. Plans with built-in strategic agility, which will achieve superior results and have higher employee adoption.

Learn how to apply strategic thinking as a foundation for business sustainability.

Learn from an multicultural, gender inclusive global network that has been practicing around the globe for over 30 years.

And follow our pragmatic 10-step application of systems thinking which allows you to integrate risk, governance and strategy into a single management and reporting system that everyone can understand. Create develop implement-able, successful strategic plans. 

Our strategic management model is based upon Our Systems Thinking Approach®.

In four 3.5 - 4 hour sessions you'll learn:

  • How to apply strategic thinking on a daily basis

  • How to start the planning and execution processes off correctly

  • The importance of external environment scanning and how to do it

  • How to create your unique strategic positioning and use it for competitive advantage

  • Mitigating risk

  • Building support for your plan into your process through early key stakeholder involvement

  • Creating clarity for your long term vision

  • Setting and using measures to ensure success

  • Strategies for cascading strategic plans throughout the organization and aligning all work units in a single strategic direction

  • Practical tools and techniques for making change stick

  • How to create an ongoing strategic management system in your organization for long-term business success

  • The common mistakes of strategic management and how to avoid or overcome them

Attending all four sessions will help prepare you for IAPS's SPP and SMP exams.

Updated to ASP Certification Competencies 2021-2022 and BOK 3.0

Strategic Thinking on a Daily Basis

Understand Systems Thinking - a powerful tool for all aspects of your life.

Learn how to apply The Systems Thinking Approach® - it will change how you manage your business, your people & your life. 

Topics include:

The Systems Thinking Approach®

Levels of living systems

Strategic and Systems Thinking

Levels of Strategic Thinking

Goals of Strategic Management

Role of Strategic Planning Professionals

Application to case study and your personal case 

Starting Right

The Systems Thinking Approach® is the basis for our Strategic Management - planning, people, leadership & change.

Give yourself an advantage by preparing the people and organization for the best planning ever.

The Strategic Management Process helps you manage strategically throughout the year with our annual cycle.

Topics include:

Strategic planning vs. strategic management

Benefits of Strategic Management

Our Strategic Management process

Differences in our approach

Premises of strategic management

Common mistakes

Prepare to Begin tasks - how to educate, assess, organize and tailor for the Strategic Management process

Planning team membership & roles

Support team & SMEs responsibilities

Application to case study and your personal case

Being Successful in the Real World

The Strategic Management Process ensures success by looking outside yourself to build proactive strategies for handling changes in the external environment and managing risk.

Reduce resistance, build allies and diminish unintended consequences through involving stakeholders who are crucial to the execution of your plan.

Our Parallel Stakeholder Engagement process involves key stakeholders in ways that make sense for you and them. 

Topics include:

Future environmental scanning using our SKEPTIC model

Trend analysis

Risk management

Scenario planning

Key stakeholder assessment

Parallel Involvement process - who, how & when to include key stakeholders

Unintended consequences 

Application to case study and your personal case

Where Are We Going?

Create clarity for where you are going. Picture what your organization looks like when you are wildly successful and discover your positioning in your customer's eyes. 

Topics include:

Creating a shared vision

Mission drives behavior

Core values and culture

World-class positioning

Rallying cry

Application to case study and your personal case

How Will We Know When We Get There? 

Measure what's important, not what's easy! Learn how to measure progress towards the organization you dream of becoming.

Topics include:

Failure of strategic change

Key success measures

Quadruple bottom line

Tracking & reporting

Application to case study and your personal case

 

Where Are We Now?

Traditional planning processes begin at current state, which is not a Systems Thinking approach. We assess our current situation in the context of where we want to go.

Topics include:

Where to gather information for assessment of where we are now

Assess the current state using SWOT 2.0

Application to case study and your personal case

 

The Strategic Plan as Management Tool

Develop high level strategies to bridge the gap between where we are and where we want to go.

Build practical strategic and operational plans that are tied to the long term strategy.

Strategy drives budgets, NOT budgets driving strategy - learn how to integrate your existing budgeting process so that it supports your plan.

Topics include:

Addressing the gap through core strategies

Linking strategies to measures

Strategic action items under core strategies

Rolling planning

Three-year business/ operational planning

Cascade of planning

Annual planning

Strategic budgets

Individual planning

Simplicity in planning 

Application to case study and your personal case

Making Change Stick

Great strategic plans are just paper unless they are implemented.

Learn what to do BEFORE you execute your plan to ensure your achieve your goals.

Icebergs & Rollercoasters, what do they have to do with carrying out your plan? Two powerful models to ensure successful change management.

Ready your organization for the successful execution of your strategic plan.

Topics include:

Change vs. transition

Iceberg of Change

Content, processes, structures and culture to support change

Rollercoaster of Change

Managing yourself and others through change

Roles of leaders and staff during change

Prepare to Implement tasks - educate, assess, organize and tailor for successful management of upcoming change

Change management plan

Communication planning

Application to case study and your personal case

Getting Things Done

Managing strategically isn't a single event. How to keep the momentum going throughout the year through a Strategic Management System.

Learn how to make sure you are working your plan every day & every year.

Topics include:

Annual strategic management system

Regular meetings for flexibility and speed

Implementation challenges

Annual strategic review and update

Strategic Management failures

Effective governance

Facilitation hints and tools

Sample ASP exam questions

Course review

Application to case study and your personal case

PLUS!

 

  • Participant workbook including templates

  • eBook Reinventing Strategic Planning: The Systems Thinking Approach ($50 USD value)

  • Concepts you can use daily to manage strategically

  • 6-month access to all recorded session videos

  • Email & telephone support from the facilitators

Introducing

The Systems Thinking Approach® to
Strategic Management 

$2,295 USD + GST ($2,995 CDN + GST)

Four live webinar sessions:

 

August 15, 17, 22 & 24, 2023 at 1pm EDT 

(in time for the IASP Fall exam cycle: September 4 - 17)
 

at 1 pm Eastern, 12 pm Central, 11 am Mountain, 10 am Pacific

 

Included: Recordings of live sessions for six months 

REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR SERIES: THE SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH® TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT!

If you cannot make the August webinar, we have a fall webinar scheduled:

October 31 and November 2, 7 & 9, 2023 at 1pm EDT

(in time for the IASP Winter exam cycle: November 27 - December 8)

Our Guarantee

After attending the first webinar session if you are unsatisfied we will refund your money.

No questions asked!

 

What people are saying...

"Before I had this training, strategic planning was just a couple of buzz words with little meaning. Now I know exactly what N1 needs to do to really implement strategic planning" - Wayne W, Navy N1

"These sessions have been a tremendous help to a somewhat seasoned education leader in a new organization undergoing tremendous and difficult change on many fronts - including my leadership. This learning helps me to reflect on and understand the big picture of what this school is going through; organize my insights about strengths and weaknesses; and, most importantly, provide the tools and strategies I need to facilitate transition." - Dawna H, SD School District

The Systems Thinking Approach®

This workshop, like all of our workshops, is based upon The Systems Thinking Approach©.

At the Haines Centre, we have operationalized over 50 years of scientific research started by Ludwig von Bertalanffy (the father of General Systems Theory) and many other world-renown systems theorists, including the Society for General Systems Research into The Systems Thinking Approach©. 

Our Key Strengths are: 

 

innovation 

"leverage knowledge to secure traction for innovation solutions in the organization"

 

vision

"champion new insights with key stakeholders to view issues from different perspectives"

 

integration

"engage and build relationships to create sustainable collaborative partnerships"

 

facilitation

"facilitate safe environments for self-reflection and learning in the organization"

If you want to be a leader that stands out from the crowd...

If you want to be more strategic and manage risk

If you want to manage your people more effectively

If you want to lead successful planning within your organization

If you want to feel a sense of accomplishment 

 

Valerie

 

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