The Systems Thinking Approach® to Strategic Management Workshop
The International Association for Strategy Professionals (IASP) Special Version Take the original IASP exam prep workshop! Taught by one of the IASP Pioneers!
This workshop is recognized by the IASP as an exam prep course for SPP and SMP certification examinations
and taught my IASP Pioneer, Valerie MacLeod, SMP, who was on the team that wrote the original exam questions!
Why attend this workshop:
If you are interested in certification with IASP for the SPP or SMP exams, this workshop is for you.
This workshop will help prepare you for writing the SPP or SMP exams through lectures, group discussions, live instructor feedback, eBook Reinventing Strategic Planning: The Systems Thinking Approach®, participant materials including Haines Centre models, connection with instructors between sessions, access to all recorded sessions shortly after each live session and for six months after, shared case application and discussion and sample questions.
Who should attend:
For strategic planners who are striving for IASP certification at either the SPP or SMP level
For strategic planners who want to learn The Systems Thinking Approach® to strategic planning and execution to make strategic planning actually strategic
For strategic planners who want to "up" their skills in Systems Thinking, strategic planning, plan creation & execution, and how to strategically management throughout the year
For strategic planners who are interested in facilitating and leading the strategic planning process in their organization
For strategic planners who want to gain an in-depth knowledge and certification in The Systems Thinking Approach® to Strategic Management this is the first of three steps to achieve Gold Mastery in Strategic Management
For strategic planners who are interested in facilitating and leading The Systems Thinking Approach® to Strategic Management as an independent consultant this is the beginning of a mutally beneficial relationship
For strategic professionals who want to learn from an multicultural, gender inclusive global network that has been practicing around the globe for over 30 years
For employees and leaders in private, public and non-profit organizations
For anyone who wants to learn from an IASP Pioneer. Valerie MacLeod, SMP was part of a group of 24 planning professionals who created the IASP Standards, Certification Process and examinations.
This workshop has been approved by IASP as a certified preparation workshop for their SPP and SMP exams.
Course ID: 16786484
About The Systems Thinking Approach® to Strategic ManagementWorkshop:
A simple and profound method for strategic and operational planning and execution. Based upon The Systems Thinking Approach®.
Learn our Systems Thinking-based 10-step model for Strategic Management.
Master a practical way to create more successful strategic plans that integrate risk into strategy development. Plans with built-in strategic agility, which will achieve superior results and have higher employee adoption.
Learn how to apply strategic thinking as a foundation for business sustainability.
Following our pragmatic 10-step Strategic Management model allows you to integrate risk, governance and strategy into a single management and reporting system that everyone can understand.
Create develop implement-able, successful strategic plans.
Four live webinar sessions are taught by IASP Pioneer, Valerie MacLeod, SMP.
The workshop has been updated to IASP's BOK 3.0.
Attending all four sessions will help prepare you for IASP's SPP and SMP exams. Each session is 3.5 - 4 hours in length.
We have included four areas in our Strategic Management Process that are virtually ignored by the competition:
Preparing to Begin - What do you need to do BEFORE you plan to ensure the planning runs successfully? Who should be involved on the planning team? What process are you using? What's the commitment? Who's supporting us?
Involving Key Others - You can't have everyone on the planning team, so who else needs to support the plan's implementing & how do we involve them?
Preparing to Implement - What needs to be in place so that the plan can be successfully implemented? How do we rally support? How do we keep the plan vital?
Risk Mitigation - Are you confident in the board's and leadership's risk understanding? Can managing risk be cascaded to operational levels?
More about The Systems Thinking Approach® to Strategic Management Workshop:
Strategic Thinking on a Daily Basis
Understand Systems Thinking - a powerful tool for all aspects of your life.
Learn how to apply The Systems Thinking Approach® - it will change how you manage your business, your people & your life.
Topics include:
Strategic and Systems Thinking
Understanding systems
Levels of living systems
The Systems Thinking Approach®
Levels of Strategic Thinking
Role of Strategic Planning Professionals
Application to case study and your personal case
Questions or comments
Sample exam questions
Strategic Management
Understand how to strategically management your organization throughout the year.
Learn the common mistakes in strategic planning and how to overcome them by using The Systems Thinking Approach® to Strategic Management.
Topics include:
Strategic planning vs. Strategic Management
Strategic Management
Goals of Strategic Management
Our Strategic Management Approach
Premises of Strategic Management
Top 12 Most Common Mistakes in Strategic Planning
Application to case study and your personal case
Questions or comments
Sample exam questions
Starting Right
Give yourself an advantage by preparing the people and organization for the best planning ever.
The Strategic Management Process helps you manage strategically throughout the year with our annual cycle.
Topics include:
Prepare to Begin tasks - how to educate, assess, organize and tailor for the Strategic Management process
Planning team membership & roles
Support team & SMEs responsibilities
Application to case study and your personal case
Questions or comments
Sample exam questions
Being Successful in the Real World
The Strategic Management Process ensures success by looking outside yourself to build proactive strategies for handling changes in the external environment and managing risk.
Reduce resistance, build allies and diminish unintended consequences through involving stakeholders who are crucial to the execution of your plan.
Our Parallel Stakeholder Engagement process involves key stakeholders in ways that make sense for you and them.
Topics include:
Future environmental scanning using our SKEPTIC model
Trend analysis
Risk management
Scenario planning
Key stakeholder assessment
Parallel Involvement process - who, how & when to include key stakeholders
Application to case study and your personal case
Questions or comments
Sample exam questions
Where Are We Going?
Create clarity for where you are going. Picture what your organization looks like when you are wildly successful and discover your positioning in your customer's eyes.
Topics include:
Creating a shared vision
Mission drives behavior
Core values and culture
World-class positioning
Rallying cry
Application to case study and your personal case
Questions or comments
Sample exam questions
How Will We Know When We Get There?
Measure what's important, not what's easy! Learn how to measure progress towards the organization you dream of becoming.
Topics include:
Failure of strategic change
Key success measures
Quadruple bottom line
Tracking & reporting
Application to case study and your personal case
Questions or comments
Sample exam questions
Where Are We Now?
Traditional planning processes begin at current state, which is not a Systems Thinking approach. We assess our current situation in the context of where we want to go.
Topics include:
Where to gather information for assessment of where we are now
Assess the current state using SWOT 2.0
Organization and strategic capabilities
Application to case study and your personal case
Questions or comments
Sample exam questions
The Strategic Plan as Management Tool
Develop high level strategies to bridge the gap between where we are and where we want to go.
Build practical strategic and operational plans that are tied to the long term strategy.
Strategy drives budgets, NOT budgets driving strategy - learn how to integrate your existing budgeting process so that it supports your plan.
Topics include:
Addressing the gap through core strategies
Linking strategies to measures
Strategic alignment
Strategic action items under core strategies
Rolling planning
Three-year business/ operational planning
Cascade of planning
Annual planning
Strategic budgets
Individual planning
Simplicity in planning
Application to case study and your personal case
Questions or comments
Sample exam questions
Making Change Stick
Great strategic plans are just paper unless they are implemented.
Learn what to do BEFORE you execute your plan to ensure your achieve your goals.
Icebergs & Rollercoasters, what do they have to do with carrying out your plan? Two powerful models to ensure successful change management.
Ready your organization for the successful execution of your strategic plan.
Topics include:
Change vs. transition
Iceberg of Change
Content, processes, structures and culture to support change
Rollercoaster of Change
Managing yourself and others through change
Roles of leaders and staff during change
Prepare to Implement tasks - educate, assess, organize and tailor for successful management of upcoming change
Change management/ transformation plan
Communication planning
Application to case study and your personal case
Questions or comments
Sample exam questions
Getting Things Done
Managing strategically isn't a single event. How to keep the momentum going throughout the year through a Strategic Management System.
Learn how to make sure you are working your plan every day & every year.
Topics include:
Annual strategic management system
Regular meetings for flexibility and speed
Implementation challenges
Annual strategic review and update
Effective governance
Strategic Management failures
Facilitation hints and tools
Sample IASP exam questions
Course review
Application to case study and your personal case
Questions or comments
Sample exam questions
What else is included:
Live online instruction led by SMP and IASP Pioneer, Valerie MacLeod
eBook Reinventing Strategic Planning: The Systems Thinking Approach® ($50 USD value)
IASP certification exam prep (SPP and SMP)
Shared case study to apply and discussion concepts throughout all sessions
Live group discussions of concepts and shared case application
Facilitation hints
Access to recordings after each session
Access to all recordings from sessions for 6 months
Concepts you can use daily to manage strategically
Live interaction with instructors throughout each webinar
Access to instructors between sessions
The Systems Thinking Approach® materials and models
Materials updated to IASP's BOK 3.0
The Systems Thinking Approach® to Strategic Management - IASP Special Version
$2,295 USD + GST ($2,995 CDN + GST)
Four live webinar sessions (3.5 - 4 hours each):
North America: October 31 and November 2, 7 & 9, 2023 at 1pm EDT
(in time for the IASP Fall exam cycle: November 27 - December 8)
1 pm Eastern, 12 pm Central, 11 am Mountain, 10 am Pacific
Included: Recordings of live sessions for six months
SPECIAL FOR AUSTRALIA AND EASTERN ASIA:
We will be offering sessions in time zones especially for Australia and Eastern Asia: TBD
12 pm AEDT, 11 am AEST, 10 am JST, 9 am SGT & CST, 6:30 am IST
The Australia and Eastern Asia sessions will be co-lead by Dr. Lewis Atkinson. Dr. Atkinson is a unique innovation and design thinking professional and international Strategic Management facilitator and consultant based in Brisbane, Australia. He has 30 years’ experience in knowledge production & transfer through both commercial and public-good innovation pathways to market.
Included: Recordings of live sessions for six months
If you cannot make this webinar, we will schedule a webinar in:
March 2023 at 1pm EDT
Our Guarantee
After attending the first webinar session if you are unsatisfied we will refund your money.
No questions asked!
What people are saying...
"Before I had this training, strategic planning was just a couple of buzz words with little meaning. Now I know exactly what N1 needs to do to really implement strategic planning" - Wayne W, Navy N1
"These sessions have been a tremendous help to a somewhat seasoned education leader in a new organization undergoing tremendous and difficult change on many fronts - including my leadership. This learning helps me to reflect on and understand the big picture of what this school is going through; organize my insights about strengths and weaknesses; and, most importantly, provide the tools and strategies I need to facilitate transition." - Dawna H, SD School District
The Systems Thinking Approach®
This workshop, like all of our workshops, is based upon The Systems Thinking Approach®.
At the Haines Centre, we have operationalized over 50 years of scientific research started by Ludwig von Bertalanffy (the father of General Systems Theory) and many other world-renown systems theorists, including the Society for General Systems Research into The Systems Thinking Approach®.
Our Key Strengths are:
innovation
"leverage knowledge to secure traction for innovation solutions in the organization"
vision
"champion new insights with key stakeholders to view issues from different perspectives"
integration
"engage and build relationships to create sustainable collaborative partnerships"
facilitation
"facilitate safe environments for self-reflection and learning in the organization"
If you want to distinguish yourself from your peersas a strategic professional
If you want to be more strategic and manage risk
If you want to lead people more effectively
If you want to lead successful planning within your organization
If you want to feel a sense of accomplishment
If you want to pass the IASP SPP or SMP exams
Valerie
Tailored workshops
This program can be tailored to your organization's needs and delivered exclusively to your people.
This customized version can be delivered live-online or in-person.
Some of the many benefits of bringing the workshop in-house is the language is tailored to your organization's terminology, participants can discuss specifics of your situation in confidence and they can develop draft versions of your org's operational plans and strategic plan.
