Program Overview

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The eie course on how to Develop Your Strategic Planning Skills

Overall Programme Description

Learn how to plan for and anticipate consequences and trends for your business. Discover how to curate information, identify issues, and forge relationships. Learn how to commit to a course of action, develop alternatives, and use facts, resources, and organizational values to achieve your goals.

Skills

• Business Strategy
• Organizational Leadership
• Strategic Planning

Mode of Delivery

Online through Self-Study

Duration

6 hours

Assessment

Quizzes at the end of each Module

Certification

Digital Certificates at the end of Each module, and an eie Certificate of Completion (this is NOT an Academic Qualification or Academic Award. For an Academic Award, please visit our MQF Levels section)

Modules

1. Leading with Vision

The world needs leaders who can create a compelling vision and engage others around it. Visionary leaders are able to communicate what lies beyond the horizon and inspire confidence. They attract talent to the organization and motivate team members to make more effective decisions. In this course, CEO Bonnie Hagemann shows corporate and community leaders how to lead with vision, breaking visionary leadership down into steps that anyone can follow. Discover why it's needed, why it's lacking, and how you can fill the gap. Then find out how to build your personal vision and gain the skills and tools to build a vision for your organization, division, department, team, community cause, or nonprofit.

2. Strategic Thinking

Strategic thinking is the ability to think on a big and small scale, long and short term, and into the past and the present. While strategic thinking is a valuable skill for everyone in an organization, it becomes increasingly essential as you ascend the ladder. In fact, you may have a difficult time being promoted or succeeding as a leader without it. Yet, no one formally teaches strategic thinking—so it's critical to take the initiative and learn how to do it yourself. This course teaches managers and leaders how to use strategic thinking to guide the direction of their teams and come up with solutions to key business problems. Career and personal branding expert Dorie Clark shows you how to carve out time to think about strategy, gather data, learn from the past, create a vision for the future, and implement strategic thinking within your team.

3. Strategic Partnerships

While industry titans such as Google and Disney can seem like singular forces in the marketplace, their success is due in part to their ability to collaborate with other companies and foster key partnerships. Whether you're a leader at a multinational corporation or a small organization, strategic partnerships can help your business enter new markets and develop more innovative products. In this course, partnership strategy expert Ben Gomes-Casseres spells out how to succeed with strategic partnerships, sharing practical tips and tools that can help both beginners and experienced managers create value and manage collaboration. Ben covers how to assess the capabilities of potential partners to find the best strategic fit. He also steps through how to set partnership terms, resolve conflicts, and more.

4. Setting Business Unit Goals

Effective goal setting requires leaders to translate high-level corporate goals down to the business unit, and then break them down even further into team and individual goals. That way, employees can understand how their performance connects to company strategy, financial results, and incentives. In this course, leadership consultant Mike Figliuolo outlines how to set different types of business goals: quantitative, qualitative, commit, and stretch goals. In addition to linking goals to strategy, he emphasizes the importance of setting achievable goals, communicating them clearly, and providing resources so goals can be accomplished. Last, he provides guidance on managing goal performance and adjusting goals as business needs and resources change.

5. The New Age of Risk Management Strategy for Business

A slew of factors are set to change the business landscape over the next few decades. AI, social media, globalization, and other developments have introduced risks that CEOs, business owners, or anyone responsible for business continuity must grapple with. In this course, Dan Weedin shares a practical approach to risk management, helping you think strategically about some of the most pressing risks of the 21st century. Learn how to protect your assets, people, and valuation from risks introduced by globalization and emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles. Learn how climate change and extreme weather can hurt businesses, explore the issues introduced by cryptocurrency, learn how insurance may change in the future and why it's important to business leaders, and more.

6. Transformational Change

Organizations are complex, human systems. Many of the older ways of working—endless meetings, stifling bureaucracy, and siloed teams—simply don't work in a modern context. But many of these principles and practices are so deeply ingrained in a company's culture that adopting a new way of working can be exceedingly difficult. In this course, join thought leader Aaron Dignan as he shares a revolutionary approach to revamping old systems and creating real change. Aaron details how organizations can make changes that stick by taking risks, experimenting, and adopting new patterns and approaches that stray from the traditional top-down-mandate model.

After this course

Once you complete this short course, you might consider furthering your education with another short course but ending up with an academic qualification. We offer an array of Awards, which are considered as short courses (30 / 60 hours) but have an MQF Level and a number of ECTS's attached to them. These Awards are recognised by the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority (MFHEA).

You might also consider starting a full qualification such as a:

• Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (MQF Level 6 - 180 ECTS)
• Undergraduate Higher Diploma in Business Administration (MQF Level 5 - 120 ECTS)
• Undergraduate Diploma in Business Administration (MQF Level 5 - 60 ECTS)

These qualifications are offered through Online or Classroom modes.