FCA0205 | Understanding Financial Planning & Strategic Leadership

Start End Duration Venue Fees
01 Nov 2020 05 Nov 2020 1 Week Abu Dhabi $3,800 Register
03 May 2020 07 May 2020 1 Week Cairo $3,600 Register
09 Mar 2020 13 Mar 2020 1 Week Barcelona $4,900 Register
10 Feb 2020 14 Feb 2020 1 Week London $4,800 Register
12 Jul 2020 16 Jul 2020 1 Week Alexandria $3,600 Register
13 Dec 2020 17 Dec 2020 1 Week Sharm Sheikh $3,900 Register
14 Jun 2020 18 Jun 2020 1 Week Dubai $3,800 Register
17 Aug 2020 21 Aug 2020 1 Week Istanbul $4,100 Register
20 Jan 2020 24 Jan 2020 1 Week Ankara $4,100 Register
20 Apr 2020 24 Apr 2020 1 Week Kuala Lumpur $4,100 Register
26 Oct 2020 30 Oct 2020 1 Week Bangkok $4,500 Register
28 Sep 2020 02 Oct 2020 1 Week Barcelona $4,900 Register


PROGRAM'S BACKGROUND


Understanding Financial Planning & Strategic Leadership ensures accountability while aligning the entire business with actionable and achievable goals and objectives. This involves setting and committing to new standards of performance with built-in contingencies for all plans. Periodic reviews and links to operational plans help to make the strategy a reality. This program will enable you to learn the many benefits of financial planning & strategic leadership, including:

›       Improved planning, implementation, and results

›       Improved strategic leadership

›       Better utilization of core competencies and recognition of next competences needed

›       Integration of strategy, finance, and operations

›       Realization of sustainable competitive advantage

›       Greater understanding and willingness to change

›       Stronger commitment to goals and objectives

PROGRAM'S OBJECTIVES


This Program’s Attendees Will Be More Able To:

›       Introduce the concept of strategy making and its benefits

›       Understand the role of leadership in strategy making

›       Understand the link between involvement and accountability

›       Provide insights into developing implementation plans

›       Develop an actionable financial plan with controllable milestones

›       Understand the pitfalls of strategic planning

PROGRAM'S ATTENDEES


›       Executive level managers with strategic and/or financial responsibility

›       Senior level managers who need to understand strategic implementation and its financial impact

›       Middle level managers in operations, finance, operations, engineering, planning, procurement and any other area affected by strategic decisions

›       Those whom are held accountable for financial performance

PROGRAM'S OUTLINE


WHAT IS STRATEGIC & FINANCIAL PLANNING?

›       The role of strategy in business and why it matters

›       The ingredients of a good strategy

›       Customer analysis and market segmentation

›       Effective strategy making processes with proper financial planning

›       Tools for understanding industry developments

›       The core strategic financial choices for a business

›       Who is responsible for strategy making and who should be held accountable?

INTEGRATING STRATEGIC & FINANCIAL PLANNING WITH OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT

›       Contrasting management with strategic leadership

›       The competencies of strategic leadership

›       The top manager as strategist

›       The CFO as strategist

›       Using Scenario analysis and environmental scanning

›       SWOT and other acronyms

›       Corporate Culture and its effect on strategy and financial planning

›       The operational managers role in strategy

USING OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE FOR STRATEGIC & FINANCIAL PLANNING

›       Analyzing the market and the customers

›       Understanding the competition

›       Financial analysis: past, present, and future

›       Knowing the core strengths and weaknesses of your business

›       Identifying your core competitive advantage

›       Developing Vision statements that make a difference

›       Developing mission statements that make a difference

›       Examining alternative strategies

›       Creating the strategic plan

IMPLEMENTING THE STRATEGIC & FINANCIAL PLANS

›       Preparing the ground for change in the business via financial planning

›       Communicating the strategy and control points

›       Overcoming internal political resistance

›       Reviewing and measuring progress with proper variance analysis

›       Turnaround and corrective measures

›       Managing implementation as a continuous process

BECOMING A LEADER OF STRATEGIC FINANCIAL PLANNING

›       Building strategy making and implementation into the role of managers at all levels

›       Developing strategic leadership capability

›       Creating organizational commitment to the business strategy

›       Leading strategy making teams effectively

›       Incentive systems

›       Balanced Scorecard and other performance management systems

›       Realistic action planning 

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Benefits to Organization

1. The candidates will become competent, effective and productive on their jobs. This training program is useful for:
        · Competency building where existing employee is promoted or planned to be promoted.
        · Technical knowledge, skills and competencies.
        · Needs and expectations of the stakeholders/ customers both internal and external.
        · Opportunities to exceed stakeholder/ customer expectations.
2. Create a pool of trained manpower that can cost-effectively spread the knowledge to large number of employees inside the organization.
3. Our facilitators often act as mentors for your trained employees and thus provide a most effective way to ensure effective competency development and application by your motivated staff.
4. We adopted a one-to-one approach that can provide more room for your employees to work at their own pace and address individual needs more freely.

Benefits to the Individuals

1. The candidates will gain a multi-discipline understanding of the subject matter.
2. Have an individual action plan to take away that will help the candidates make a difference in their organizations. This will add value to the expertise and experience of the candidates’.
3. Be more able to enhance job satisfaction and reduce wasted time and effort.
4. Ensure that the candidates will know and appreciate the strategic imperatives that drive the organization's efforts in their relevant job area.
5. Be more able to align your roles and job requirements with the organization’s mission and vision.
6. Be more able to meet your deadlines and tasks and successfully complete any scorecard in a timely fashion.

Additional Benefits

1. Good & best industry practices.
2. Checklist approach for ease of understanding and practical application.
3. Latest technologies including information technology, quality assurance and methodology.
4. Quality assurance and quality improvement incorporated in each program.
5. One-to-one approach and small groups will lead to learner-centered environment.
6. Experienced and qualified instructors both academically and in practice.
7. Customized programs to meet and suit individual training needs.
8. Letters of recommendation for the exceptional performers.

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