Organization: Asset Africa Institute
Registration deadline: 02 Mar 2016
Starting date: 16 Mar 2016
Ending date: 18 Mar 2016
Dear Partner,
Asset Africa Institute, (www.assetafrica.co.ke), is pleased to announce the following seminar set to take place in March 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Seminar Name: Strategic Planning Specialist Seminar
Date: 16th -18th March 2016
Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
Cost: USD 755
Overview
Widely applying case studies and working models, this 2 ½ day senior seminar explores the factors that result in strategic success or failure and equips you with skills to harness them for organization/programmatic and individual professional success. It is designed for those who are directly involved in strategy formation and/or implementation and those other organization staff whose functions require them to understand how strategy impacts the success of their organizations/programs and how to apply and lead strategic thinking within their teams/departments while improving their career success and progress through demonstration of clear and superior ability in strategic decision making.
Seminar Objectives
By the end of this powerful seminar, you will be able to demonstrate the following competencies:
• Understand the process and value of formulating, planning and implementing strategy
• Understand the different types of strategy within an organization
• Develop strategic management abilities to enable delivery of best value/return on funding(ROF)
• Relate action plans to strategic initiatives and individual/ team/department performance
• Create conditions that foster achievement of strategic goals within the organization when conditions change
• Identify and communicate the drivers for strategic change within your organization
• Develop strategic thinking skills and link them to your daily actions & action plans
• Appreciate the evolution and development of strategic thinking
• Differentiate strategy from tactics
• Learn the key models and vocabulary to “talk strategy” effectively with colleagues
• Link daily actions and team performance to headline strategy
• Recognize some of the key factors that lead to changes in strategy
• Craft a winning personal and organization strategy for organization development and personal professional excellence.
Course Outline
Key Strategy Concepts
• Appreciate the evolution of strategy and its influences to strategies within your organization
• Draw the critical linkages between vision and values to communicating strategy in organizations
• Identify the key strategies for every organization
• Distinguish between the process of creating strategy and the content of strategy
The Evolution Of Strategic Thinking & Planning
• Approaches to developing and implementing a results-oriented organization strategy
• Follow the progression of strategic thinking in organization and anticipate strategy change
• Identify the different conceptual frameworks from which strategic thinking has developed and identify which are active in your organization
• Articulate the conceptual framework of strategy that your organization uses today
Strategy Creation & Update Processes
• Correctly identify different approaches to creating and updating strategy in an organization
• Identify the strategy applicability to fit in an organization’s unique characteristics
• Match different processes to specific issues or situations that could develop in your organization
• Strategy in the organization
o Linkage between strategy to daily organization/programmatic activities
o Identify and appreciate how strategy is created and implemented at multiple levels of the organization
Strategies For Organization Growth and Sustainability
Articulate the link between organization growth and program sustainability in the development sector
• Understand the key factors that make the difference between strategic success and failure
• Relate Action Plans to strategic initiatives and individual performance
• Create conditions that foster achievement of strategic initiatives within the organization when strategy changes
• Recognize and communicate to others the drivers for strategic change within your organization
• Use insights from past experiences with donors/partners/collaborators/beneficiaries and personal change to support the process of strategic change in your organization
What Does All This Mean?: Engaging Your Organization In Strategic Thinking
• Ask strategic questions that relate your work to the organization’s direction and strategic initiatives
• Formulate strategic hypotheses that suggest directions for the organization to consider
• Explore the strategic conversations you want to have when you return to your workplace
Who Should Attend
• Organization Board Members, Executive Directors, Project Managers, Project Officers, Project Coordinators, M & E personnel, Government and County Heads of Programs, Grants Administrators, Finance staff, Planning & Budgeting staff, Heads of Medium to Large Institutions
• Those aspiring for careers in INGOs/NGOs
• Any other professional who is required to make strategic decisions, and anyone who wishes to learn the principles of strategic thinking and how to apply them in their jobs and careers
Additional Benefits for taking this course
• A fully paid for visit to the Nairobi National Orphanage and elephant Park
• After-training, follow-up and remedial coaching will be offered to interested participants on request for free.
Training Methodology
Dynamic, creative, participant centered, practical, interactive, interesting adult learning methodologies and diverse media are applied to lift the participants to high levels of proficiency.
About the Organization
Asset Africa Institute (www.assetafrica.co.ke)-AAI--AAI-) is a top training brand based in Kenya which specializes in the research, design and delivery of high quality and affordable training programs for development workers worldwide. We work with a consultant base of more than 120 highly educated and experienced professionals many of whom are involved in post doctoral research work. Over the years, Consultants at AAI have been sought by such reputable organizations as: Federal University, Birnin Kebbi-Nigeria, African Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD), Norwegian Church Aid-Zambia, ACOMIN-Nigeria, Tear Fund-DRC, CLEEN Organization-Nigeria, Love Botswana Outreach Mission, Islamic Relief-Somalia, National Museums of Kenya, Cornerstone Development-Uganda, International Organization for Immigration (South Sudan), Save Your Generation (SYG)-Ethiopia, Africa Rice Center (Africa Rice)-Benin, among others.
To enroll for this seminar, fill in the attached registration form and email it to:
Lillian Ateng’
Training Coordinator
Asset Africa Institute,
Trust Mansion Hse,
Tubman Road off Koinange Street
P.O. Box 12903 – 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 -722 469454/720986965,
www.assetafrica.co.ke
Email: info@assetafrica.co.ke / assetafrika@gmail.com
How to register:
To enroll for this seminar, fill in the attached registration form and email it to:
Lillian Ateng’
Training Coordinator
Asset Africa Institute,
Trust Mansion Hse,
Tubman Road off Koinange Street
P.O. Box 12903 – 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 -722 469454/720986965,
www.assetafrica.co.ke
Email: info@assetafrica.co.ke / assetafrika@gmail.com