Good to Great: Building and Sustaining Long-Term Business Success

Introduction

This leading edge Good to Great training course will provide you with the principles, practical techniques and skills you need to help your organisation to build the long-term success enjoyed by today’s greatest businesses. This hands-on workshop style training course will take you through the vital stages in developing a framework for supercharging business performance – from strategic planning and implementation through to effective business performance management and the vital processes to systematically scan for and identify threats from emerging strategies and disruptive innovation.

This GLOMACS training course will highlight:

• Strategic planning fundamentals
• Developing key financial and non-financial performance measures
• Building and leading winning teams
• Effective planning and forecasting techniques
• Essentials of strategic decision-making
• Avoiding the common causes of business failure

Objectives

This Good to Great training course has been designed to equip you with the principles, tools and techniques to make a practical contribution to the sustainable performance of your organisation, focusing on the development, implementation and execution of winning business models.

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

• Develop and apply strategic thinking to business planning
• Design and implement business performance management systems
• How to build and lead winning teams
• Apply practical skills for forecasting and decision-making
• Implement a strategic approach to cost management and reduction
• Identify the most significant threats to the survival of your business

Training Methodology

This GLOMACS training course will be structured as a highly participative workshop with formal presentations, case studies and interactive worked examples. Relevant examples and case studies are provided to illustrate the application of each of the topics covered and opportunities are provided to learn and apply the key principles using practical examples and exercises.

Organisational Impact

The organisation will benefit directly from the development of an up to date knowledge of the best practice of business planning and performance management, as well as the adoption of a strategic approach to business management and decision-making. Specific benefits will include:

• Raised strategic awareness and thinking
• Awareness of world-class performance management systems
• Practical skills in team building and leadership
• Application of valuable skills in forecasting and decision-making
• Raised awareness of the common risks and threats to business survival

Personal Impact

Delegates will acquire the tools, techniques and skills to actively participate in a business performance management system that takes an organisation from strategy development through to implementation, execution and control. Participants will develop a set of highly relevant take-away benefits that will aid the company and their own career development. Specific benefits will include:

• Ability to use tools for strategic analysis and strategy formulation
• Practical knowledge of business performance management frameworks
• Ability to build and lead winning work teams
• Hands-on use of tools for forecasting and decision-making
• Latest thinking on business model disruption and avoidance methods