Introduction
This GLOMACS training course presents a powerful, integrated approach to strategy that merges the foresight of transformative scenario planning with the practical rigour of strategic analysis and business planning. In a world of increasing complexity, volatility, and disruption, traditional planning methods are no longer sufficient. This unique programme is designed to equip you with the frameworks and skills to not only anticipate multiple possible futures but to actively shape them and translate your vision into a concrete, actionable business plan, ensuring your organisation remains resilient and competitive .
This training course moves beyond theoretical forecasting to provide a complete toolkit for strategic leadership. You will learn to build a comprehensive strategic management system that guides you from observing weak signals in your environment, to developing detailed future scenarios, and finally, to formulating and executing robust business plans. The synergy between these skills empowers you to drive innovation, manage risk proactively, and turn strategic intent into measurable results, bridging the critical gap between thinking, planning, and execution .
This training course will highlight:
- Integrating scenario planning with strategic business analysis
- Mastering the five key phases of the transformative scenario planning process
- Developing and translating strategy using frameworks like Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards
- Building robust business plans to achieve strategic goals and realise your vision
- Enhancing leadership capability to navigate change and drive organisational transformation
Objectives
At the end of this training course, you will learn to:
- Master the principles of transformative scenario planning
- Apply strategic analysis and business planning frameworks
- Design detailed and plausible future scenarios
- Formulate actionable business plans from strategic insights
- Lead strategic change and foster organisational alignment
Training Methodology
This highly interactive course employs a blend of experiential group activities, individual exercises, mini-case studies, role-plays, and syndicate discussions. It encourages active participation through short lectures, breakout sessions, and practical exercises designed to apply new skills immediately . The focus is on sharing diverse participant experiences and experimenting with novel techniques .
Organisational Impact
The Organisation will have the following benefits;
- Enhanced, world-class strategic planning capability
- Greater alignment with key stakeholders
- Improved innovation and proactive problem-solving
- Clearer strategic direction aligned with operations
- Increased organisational agility and resilience
- Higher levels of organisational productivity
Personal Impact
At the end of this training course, the participants will gain the following;
- Powerful strategic management and foresight skills
- Enhanced leadership and team-development abilities
- Practical tools for strategic analysis and planning
- Confidence to influence strategic decisions effectively
- Ability to turn strategy into actionable results
- Valuable insights for professional and personal growth
Who should Attend?
This training course is suitable for professionals with some experience in strategy, planning, or leadership roles who are looking to explore new ways of strategic thinking and identify opportunities in a turbulent world. It provides a vital knowledge base for those preparing for or currently in senior roles.
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Strategic Planning Teams
- Senior and Functional Managers
- Business Development and Process Leaders
- Policy Developers and Project Managers
- Board-level Members and Team Leaders
Foundations of Strategic Thinking and Scenario Planning
- The Origins, Nature, and Essence of Strategy
- What Scenario Planning is and When to Use It
- Distinguishing Good Strategy from Bad Strategy
- The Shortcomings of Traditional Strategic Management Approaches
- How Scenario Planning Works and Overview of its Key Phases
- Assembling a 'Whole System' Scenario Planning Team
- Understanding Your Own and Others' Biases in Thinking, Planning, and Communicating
- Leadership and Management: Comparing Strategy and Operations
Strategic Analysis and Observing the System
- Understanding the Importance of a 'Business Model'
- Defining Vision, Values, Mission, and Goals
- Analysing Your Business Environment
- Enabling the Panel to Examine the Current Reality of the System
- Determining Driving Forces: Events, Patterns, Trends, and Structures
- Creating a Space that Enables Trust, Safety, and Dialogue
- Using Facilitation to Exploit Divergent, Emergent, and Convergent Thinking
- Listing 'Certainties' and 'Uncertainties' in and Around the System
Strategic Choice and Designing Future Stories
- Levels of Strategy: Corporate, Business, and Functional
- Competitive Strategy and Emergent Strategies
- Resource-Based Approaches to Strategy
- Determining Two Major Uncertainties / Dimensional Axes for Scenarios
- Designing Four Scenarios using both Deductive and Inductive Thinking
- Transforming Scenarios into Logical, Consequential Stories
- Finding Metaphors, Images, and Titles for Each Scenario
- Strategic Choice: How to Select the Best Strategy
From Strategy to Plan and Action
- Translating Strategy with Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards
- Identifying What Can and Must Be Done: Adaptive and Transformative Stance
- Appreciating What Can Be Done Alone and Through Partnerships
- Using 'Reverse SWOT' and Defining Roles and Responsibilities
- Describing Future 'Contexts', 'Triggers', and 'Early Warning Indicators'
- Communicating Strategy and Managing Stakeholders
- How to Manage Strategic Risk
- Alignment of Operations with Strategy
Execution, Dissemination, and Integration
- Transforming Scenarios to Actions: Goals, Policies, and Programmes
- Leveraging Alliances and Partnerships to Work in New Ways
- Engaging with the World and Disseminating the Panel's Outputs
- Managing Implementation: Effective Execution of Strategy
- Strategic Performance Measurement
- Overcoming Psychological Bias in Strategic Decision-Making
- Building a Strategy / Business Planning Team
- Personal Action Planning and Next Steps
- Upon successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates. Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance
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