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Strategic Planning Masterclass
This course will help you to understand Business Strategy to MBA level and create a comprehensive Business Plan simultaneously as you take the course. Everything you need is here in comprehensive easy steps to improve your Business management.
Overview
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This course includes:
- 14+ hours of on-demand video
- 23 modules
- Core level
- Direct access/chat with the instructor
- 100% self-paced online
- Many downloadable resources
- Shareable certificate of completion
Welcome to the Strategic Planning Masterclass Course, enabling you to understand Business Strategy to MBA level AND create a comprehensive Business Plan simultaneously as you take the course. Everything you need is here in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow course to improve your Business management.
In this course you will discover:
- The connections between Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy and your Business Plan
- Understand the main frameworks for Strategic Analysis and be able to complete a SWOT Analysis
- Discover some of the Key Strategic Business Models taught at Business School, providing you with a toolbox of frameworks to apply to your Business Strategy formulation
- Learn to think critically about the role of Management and their skills
- How to create a competitive advantage for Products and Services
- Use classic business models to evaluate your Competition
- How to conduct an industry-wide analysis of your Markets and Competitors
- Review your business's operations, with a close eye on Customer Management
- Use my templated scorecards to do a SWOT analysis on your own business
- The importance of your Customers and your Customer Value Proposition
- Frameworks to maximize your return from your investment in Sales and Marketing
- How to transform your online Digital Business Strategy
- Understand the three main financial statements, the Income Statement or Profit and Loss Account, the Balance Sheet , and the Cash Flow Statement , and how they fit together.
- To understand the key Financial Ratios that apply to the Income Statement, the Balance Sheet , and the Cash Flow Statement to enable you to interpret the financial information in these statements.
- Use a real Case Study to analyze real financial information using Financial Ratio Analysis
- Exercise to evaluate the achievability of your Strategic Goals when compared to your predicted rates of growth
- Frameworks to incorporate Performance Management into your Business Strategy and Business Plan
- Growth Strategies to help your Business Strategy execution, also incorporating your Business Plan
- Understand what factors are important to your Investors, specifically Valuation, Funding, Exits, and Returns
- How to incorporate a Risk Assessment into your Planning
- Finally, we show you how to synthesize your complete Business Plan from the lessons, assignments, and templates in the course
Skills You Will Gain
Business Plan
Business Strategy
Customer Focus
Finance
Risk Assessment
Sales Process
Strategic Analysis
Learning Outcomes (At the end of this program you will be able to)
- Discover the Business Fundamentals of Business Strategy and the Business Plan and how the two inter-connect.
- Discover the main strategic analysis frameworks and discover how to complete a SWOT analysis.
- Be introduced to some of the key Business Models taught in Business School, providing a toolbox of frameworks to use when formulating Business Strategy.
- Understand how to critically appraise Management.
- Find out how to create a Competitive Advantage for your Products and Services.
- Understand your Competition and use some classic Business Models to appraise them.
- How to evaluate your External Markets and Industry Sector.
- Use the Business Model Canvas and other frameworks to assess your Business’s operations.
- Use my Six Minute Strategist Templated Scorecards to SWOT analyze your Business.
- Understand the Customer Value Proposition and how to apply it to your Business.
- Apply some Business School frameworks to your Sales and Marketing.
- Discover my Six Minute Strategist Digital Business Transformation methodology.
- Understand the three main Financial Statements, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow.
- Discover how Financial Ratio Analysis can improve your understanding of Financial Statements.
- Use my Case Study to analyze real financial information using Ratio Analysis.
- Complete my Six Minute Strategist Analyser Assignment to evaluate the achievability of your future strategy.
- Discover SMART goal setting and the OKR framework to understand Goal Setting and Performance Management.
- Review a wide selection of Growth Strategies to identify those most suitable for your Business.
- Understand the key Valuation, Funding, Exit, and Returns factors most important to your potential investors.
- Discover how to carry out a Risk Assessment on your Business.
Prerequisites
- Students do not need any prior knowledge or experience. This course is applicable to any country and any industry sector.
- While no excel skills are required, there are some spreadsheets providing information that will require opening with excel or a compatible program (numbers, libra office).
Who Should Attend
- Anyone interested in the Business Fundamentals of Business Strategy and creating a Business Plan.
- Any Entrepreneur or C Suite Director or Startup who wants to develop an in-depth understanding of Business Strategy and discover how to apply that knowledge to create a comprehensive Business Plan.
- Any Business Student or MBA Student seeking to deepen their Business Strategy and Business Plan knowledge and expertise.
- Any Company Owner needs to prepare a Business Plan in order to attract investors and raise capital.
Instructors
Frequently Asked Questions
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