Strategic Planning Simplified
What you'll learn
- Discover the key foundational components of a strategic plan.
- Understand the importance of strategic planning and how it can help you.
- Create a sense of clarity and direction for the future.
- Develop a clear and concise strategic roadmap that you can implement.
- Learn how to set better goals and objectives that align with your long-term vision.
- Become more confident about the strategic planning process.
- Clarify your priorities and create a plan of action.
- Identify the key metrics that you need to evaluate in order to achieve success.
Requirements
- Have a basic understanding of the principles of leadership, management, and strategy.
- Experience working in a leadership or management role is a plus.
Description
Confused or uncertain about strategic planning? Not sure where to begin?
Strategic planning is an essential process for leaders, business owners, and entrepreneurs to implement in order to move their organizations forward with intentional focus, but it can often be challenging, confusing, and overwhelming. As a result, strategic planning gets overlooked and neglected.
This course is designed to simplify the strategic planning process by providing you with a framework for developing a clear and concise strategic plan based on seven key questions. Answering these essential questions will help you build your own strategic roadmap for success, which will serve as a guide for your priorities, decisions, and resource allocation.
The following key areas will be covered in this course:
Purpose, Mission, Values
Developing a Vision
Conducting a Situation Analysis
Creating Strategic Themes
Establishing Goals & Objectives
Identifying Success Indicators
Creating an Action Plan
Through a series of short and engaging lectures, Dr. Jeremy Couch will walk you through each component of the strategic roadmap process and explain how to develop a plan that is practical and actionable. After completing this course, you will be more confident about engaging in the strategic planning process. You will also have the tools you need in order to create your own roadmap for a sound strategic plan.
Who this course is for:
- Business owners, leaders, managers, and those aspiring to such positions.
- Anyone who has a desire to learn more about strategic planning.
Instructor
Dr. Jeremy Couch is a leadership educator, consultant, and coach who is passionate about developing servant leaders and healthy organizational cultures. He regularly speaks, writes, and consults on topics related to leadership, teams, and organizations.
He is the owner of Couch Solutions, a consulting, coaching, and content creation company committed to helping business owners and leaders create clarity, accelerate growth, and get results.
Couch has nearly two decades of experience in leadership, management, administration, operations, strategy, community relations, marketing, project management, customer service.
As a former college professor, he has taught of wide array of leadership, management, and business courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, including: organizational leadership, customer service, introduction to business, principles of management, strategic management, American free enterprise, coaching and consulting, group and organizational behavior, and contemporary leadership challenges.
Couch holds a Doctor of Education degree in Organizational Leadership from Grand Canyon University, as well as an MBA and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Palm Beach Atlantic University.