Learn From The Best and Improve Your Organization's Performance

It is not surprising that companies from around the world want to learn our planning secrets.  Method Frameworks’ Plan4 training program teaches our innovative Plan4 approach, emphasizing the strategies necessary to deliver your organization’s desired outcomes with greater certainty. Plan4 strategic planning training will help companies:

• Understand how to execute a more effective strategic planning process
• Identify hidden threats and formulate contingency plans
• Learn how to identify, mitigate and plan for known risks
• Learn how to identify your organization’s strategic key outcomes the important role they play in the planning process
• Learn goal prioritization techniques and how to support the underlying initiatives
• Refresh your plan with less pain
• Understand culture models and develop complementing strategies
• Understand how to develop realistic initiative execution plans that align to organizational capacity, with realistic stretch targets
• Define and evaluate real success
• Understand the fundamentals for enterprise adaptability
• Evaluate and set metrics
• Understand and implement planning governance
• Learn and implement successful techniques for planning meetings and session facilitation

Learn. Understand. Apply.

Method Frameworks structures our training programs to teach, then apply concepts.  Our background in adult learning & development is applied to each training program, so as to maximize the educational experience and transfer immediate value to our clients with practical approaches they can begin to apply within their organization.

Classroom training on each topic is combined with individual and group exercises that apply concepts just learned.  Experienced strategists and seasoned management consultant deliver every workshop, bringing worlds of cross-industry experience to bear and offering valuable antidotes on lessons from the trenches.

Available Training Programs:

Foundations and Intermediate Courses: All Levels

One-day Training:  Strategic Planning Basics (see Learning Objectives, Pricing)

• Why do strategy planning?
• What is meant by operational planning?
• Getting started on a plan that can be executed and tracked
  - Learn the inputs
  - Learn about how to conduct a current-state analysis / Capturing the business ecosystem
• Learn future-state visioning and strategic key outcome identification
• Learn relative valuation and prioritization
• Learn translating key outcomes into strategy goals
• Learn the basics of operationalizing strategy
• Learn techniques for plan governance and execution
• Group exercises on key outcome development / translation
• Group exercises on valuation and prioritization

Two-day Training:  Strategic and Operational Planning Basics

(see Learning Objectives, Pricing)

• What you should expect from your strategic plan
• How operational planning fits into the strategic planning process
• Getting started on a plan that can be executed and tracked
  - Learning the inputs
  - Learn about how to conduct a current-state analysis / Capturing the business ecosystem
• Future-state visioning and key outcome identification
• Relative valuation and prioritization
• Translating strategic key outcomes into strategy goals
• Creating the planning backlog
• Translating strategy goals into operational programs / initiatives / projects
• Facilitation basics
• Techniques for plan governance and execution
• Rolling-wave planning and how plan refreshes work
• Workshop Exercises
  - Group exercises on current-state analysis
  - Group exercises on future-state visioning
  - Group exercises on key outcome development / translation
  - Group exercises on valuation and prioritization
  - Group exercises on operational plan creation / card-storming
  - Exercises on KANBAN creation and management

Five-Day Training:  Strategic and Operational Planning Bootcamp

(see Learning Objectives, Pricing)

• What you should expect from your strategic plan
• How operational planning fits into the strategic planning process
• Getting started on a plan that can be executed and tracked
  - Learning the inputs
  - Learn about how to conduct a current-state analysis / Capturing the business ecosystem
  - Learn the basis of cultural analysis and heuristics
• Future-state visioning and strategic key outcome identification
  - Defining metrics associated with key outcomes
  - Facilitation basics
  - Graphical facilitation
  - 3-D modeling
• Relative valuation and prioritization
  - Formulas
  - Techniques
  - The 80/20 rule
• Translating key outcomes into strategy goals
  - Entropy / Energy & Focus
  - The role of historical acceleration and how to calculate
  - Accountability
• Creating the planning backlog
• Translating strategy goals into operational programs / initiatives / projects
  - Estimation
  - Budgeting
  - Resource management
  - Interdependencies
• Techniques for plan governance and execution
  - KANBAN
  - Plan governance office and models
  - Bi-directional management / reviews / corrective actions
• Rolling-wave planning and how plan refreshes work
• Workshop Exercises
  - Group exercises on current-state analysis
  - Group exercises on future-state visioning
  - Group exercises on key outcome development / translation
  - Group exercises on valuation and prioritization
  - Group exercises on operational plan creation / card-storming
  - Exercises on KANBAN creation and management

Strategic Planning Leadership Courses: Executives, Directors, Senior Managers

Two-Day Training:  Operationalization and Execution of Strategy For Directors and Senior Managers

(see Learning Objectives, Pricing)

• Unit 01:  Foundations of Strategy, Strategic Thinking and the Impact of Strategy on the Organization
• Unit 02: The Basics of Rolling Wave Planning
• Unit 03: Prioritization Systems for Sequencing Programs / Projects 
• Unit 04: Defining Accountability Structures
• Unit 05: Keeping Programs / Projects Moving Forward 
• Unit 06: Overcoming Organizational Challenges During for Effective Execution
• Unit 07:  Fundamentals of Facilitation - How to Conduct an Effective Meeting / Workshop
• Unit 08:  Conflict Management and Resolution

One-day Training:  Operationalization and Execution of Strategy For Executives

(see Learning Objectives, Pricing)

• Unit 01: The Basics of Rolling Wave Operational Planning
• Unit 02: Prioritization Systems for Sequencing Strategic Programs / Projects
• Unit 03: Defining Key Outcome Driven Measurement
• Unit 04: Putting an Accountability System in Place
• Unit 05: Keeping Strategic Programs / Projects Moving Forward
• Unit 06: Overcoming Organizational Challenges During Plan Execution

Work With Method Frameworks to Create Your Own Training Workshop Format:

We can custom design a training workshop to focus on your organization’s specific challenges, blending from your strategic planning process and our standard training content and exercises.

Cost and Scheduling

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