This online event over two consecutive half-days will give participants a structured and systematic understanding of the strategy development and strategic planning process. In it, a clear case will be made for the separation of strategy from strategic planning and then a process will be shown for their development. Many practical tools and techniques for strategy development will be presented, with interactive sessions and templates for participants to take away to apply in their own institution.
Learning Outcomes - after the course delegates will have:
Target audience: The session will be relevant for those involved in leading, managing, facilitating or supporting the development of strategy within a university. This could be the overall institutional strategy or a departmental strategy (e.g for a school or programme) or a functional strategy (e.g. a data strategy, research strategy, estates strategy, EDI strategy or online learning strategy).
Estimated level of audience knowledge : No prior experience of strategy development is required.
Participant preparation: It will help participants apply their learning if they come to the session with a strategy they plan to develop (or are thinking about developing.
About Mike Baxter
Facilitated by Dr Mike Baxter, from GoalAtlas.com, this workshop will draw on his own experience as a leader in higher education, his 20 years of strategy consultancy and his recent benchmarking research on university strategies to facilitate a practical, structured, evidence-based approach to making strategy adoption-ready.
Mike is an industry expert, government advisor, keynote speaker, author, professor and former university Dean. He has been a business consultant since 2001 for some of the world’s biggest brands (e.g. Cisco, Google, HSBC, Lilly, Skype, Sony PlayStation) and has amassed over 10,000+ hours of independent consultancy offering unbiased guidance and advice to organisations in all sectors, including technology, higher education, finance and pharma
Tagged : Strategy Development and Implementation, Events
Type : Training
