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Queen's Strategy Program
Creating and Implementing Winning Strategies
Who Should Attend
Managers and executives who are involved in their organization's strategic planning process.
Upcoming Sessions
- Feb 7 to Feb 12, 2010
- $8,900*
- May 9 to May 14, 2010
- $8,900*
- Nov 7 to Nov 12, 2010
- $8,900*
*Fees do not include GST
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In this highly-acclaimed 5-day strategy program, you will learn how to manage strategic planning as an ongoing process to drive change and growth. Our uniquely structured and disciplined framework, will help you shape the future of your business, and will give you the confidence to challenge conventional wisdom in your industry.
This program will enable you to:
- Create an effective strategic planning process
- Understand a variety of strategic planning tools
- Lead deep organizational change
- Successfully develop and implement the strategic plan
In addition, the Program will focus on topics such as leading performance improvements, managing change and creating a flexible, adaptive, self-renewing organization.
Practical and relevant content delivered by exceptional speakers, and a commitment to unrivaled customer service, have made Queen's Strategy Program one of North America's most popular strategy programs for managers and executives.
Program Content
The program leverages the educational power of multiple teaching tools, including class discussions, exchange of ideas and perspectives with faculty and fellow participants, one-on-one coaching, exercises, and the development of a self-directed action plan for improving personal effectiveness.
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- Find more information in the Queen's Strategy Program Brochure
The Program is built around a four-step process:
1. Creating an Effective Strategic Planning Process
Creating a strategic planning process will change the way you think about your business and allow you to develop useful strategic plans that have buy-in across the organization.
- Evaluating your organization's strategy development process
- Designing a structured and disciplined framework for planning and encouraging creativity
- Using the strategic planning process to challenge conventional wisdom
- Utilizing a rapid, focused, and action oriented planning process
2. Strategic Planning Tools and Frameworks
Assessing a variety of strategic planning tools and frameworks.
- Creating a vision statement, mission, and objectives that are meaningful to your organization
- Identifying the challenges and opportunities that are make-or-break for your organization
- Understanding the profit drivers and financial implications of alternative strategic platforms
- Preparing for changes in competitive conditions and market dynamics
- Integrating cross-functional considerations into the plan
3. Leading Organizational Change
Improving the effectiveness of organizational change.
- Creating champions and coalitions to drive change
- Understanding the role of leaders in driving change
- Managing resistance to change and building a sustained commitment to change
- Aligning the organization behind the strategic plan
4. Implementing the Strategic Plan
Focusing organizational resources to ensure rapid implementation of the strategic plan and generating sustained momentum.
- Understanding how the organization's culture affects strategy implementation
- Ensuring the organization's infrastructure and culture support the change effort
- Building in accountabilities and the appropriate measurement scorecards
- Leveraging the strategic plan through alliances and partnerships
Increase your value to your organization
The concepts and tools taught in the Program will greatly enhance your strategic planning knowledge and skills
- Develop a strategic mindset and change the way you think about your business
- Learn the latest strategic tools and techniques, and strengthen your ability to lead the strategic planning process in your organization
- Improve your ability to manage change and build commitment to new strategic directions
- Understand the leadership requirements to successfully implement your strategic plan
- Learn to challenge conventional wisdom with confidence
- Network with a group of experienced managers and executives from a variety of industries across Canada
- Learn how to lead a healthy and balanced life through the Program's optional Lifestyle Component
Leading-edge strategic planning will have a major impact on your organization's future direction.
- Introduce proven strategy development tools into the management practices of your organization
- Benchmark against best practices of leading companies
- Integrate short- and long-term operating objectives
- Anticipate and prepare for changes in the competitive landscape
- Link tactical action plans to the organization's strategic plan
- Improve organizational performance
Outstanding Session Leaders
Session leaders include senior professors from Queen’s School of Business and knowledgeable experts from industry. These outstanding teachers are constantly in touch with today’s business world through real-world business experience, Board memberships and their own consulting practices.
Dr. Elspeth Murray, Associate Professor of Strategy
Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Ontario
Elspeth Murray leads new venture-related activities at the business school with the latest being the launch of the Dare-to-Dream student internships, funds designed to kick-start student led entrepreneurial ventures. She teaches on many programs at Queen's, and the course she developed on new venture management has been recognized by BusinessWeek as one of the world's top ten Executive MBA courses. In 2002, she co-authored Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, with Dr. Peter Richardson. She is also a Director for Parteq, the commercialization organization for Queen's University.
Dr. Shawna O'Grady, Associate Professor of Human Resources
Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Ontario
Shawna O'Grady is an authority on team building, human resource management, and the cross-cultural aspects of international business. She is an experienced team facilitator who is in high demand for her original approach to team building. She is also the author of Border Crossings – Doing Business in the U.S., an award-winning book on international business.
Clients: Microsoft, MDS, Mattel, Shoppers Drug Mart, Enbridge Consumers Gas, Industry Canada, BMW, Novo Nordisk, Oracle, Xerox, Bell Canada, GlaxoSmithKline, Ministry of Finance, Canada Post Corporation, and TD Canada Trust.
Dr. Peter Richardson, Professor of Strategic Management
Queen's School of Business
Peter Richardson teaches strategy courses in the Executive MBA programs and in a number of the School's executive development programs. During his years at Queen's, Peter has authored over 75 papers and case studies on strategic management. With Elspeth Murray, he has written Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, along with an accompanying practitioner guide. A previous book, Cost Containment:The Ultimate Strategic Advantage, remains one of the few books to be written on cost improvement.
Clients: BHP Billiton, Alcoa, CIBC Mellon, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Auditor General of Canada, and Natural Resources Canada.
Mr. Ken Wong, Associate Professor of Marketing Strategy
Performance Coaching Inc., Rockwood, Ontario
Ken Wong is one of Canada's most frequently quoted business professors. He has worked with the Strategic Planning Institute at Harvard University and the Conference Board of Canada, and writes a monthly column for Strategy and periodically for Marketing and the National Post. He is a 2006 inductee into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends and past winner of the National Post's Leaders In Management Education award. He regularly judges “Canada's Best Managed Companies” and other competitions, addresses and consults with corporations around the world, and sits on a number of advisory/directorship boards.
Clients: Microsoft, Equifax, Manulife, Hoffman-La Roche, Bell, TD Canada Trust, Tim Hortons, and federal/provincial governments.
Session Leaders are subject to change.