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MLC-ON 111 - Goal Setting, Planning and Decision Making (3 Days)
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Course Description
The level of competition in current business environment requires an increasing focus on practices that assist in setting goals, managing of the planning function and making proper decisions. Businesses and all organizations find themselves needing to find more productive methods of planning, more appropriate goals and effective means of making decisions. The course is designed to give participants an understanding of several management methods, processes and procedures.
Course Objectives
- Understanding and developing skills necessary to set goals and complete work on time
- Understanding how delegation can be used in setting of goals and planning
- Considering methods of improving decision making
- Recognizing internal and external influences on our daily planning and decision making
- Developing the ability to make higher quality decisions as individuals and teams
Who Should Attend?
- Supervisors
- Managers
- Executives
- Anyone who is involved in developing and implementing plans
Course Details/Schedule
Day 1
- Setting the organization'sf purpose, vision, mission, values and goals
- Understanding of the current status of the organization, team and personal work
- Initial resource requirements
- The SMART Goals & how to set them
- Failure to achieve a goal
- Making an Action Plan
- The reasons for planning
- Elements of a good plan
Day 2
- Assignments, priorities and deadlines
- How to spot what needs to be done
- Exploring options
- Logical thinking
- Brainstorming
- Identifying key activities
- Critical path analysis
- Plan execution tools
- Evaluation of the plan and its impact
- Control mechanisms
- Assessing impact
- Implementing change
- Risk management
Day 3
- Implementing change
- Risk management
- Decision making
- Decision levels, planning and techniques
- Business/marketing plans
- The importance of group skills to achieve team success
- Empowering the team through delegation and decision making
- The importance of effective communication in team relations
