Critical Thinking Skills - Strategic Planning in Action

This workshop provides leaders with a structured approach that ensures fact-based decision making that can be used for evaluating specific problems or opportunities or to conduct a more general business review or for strategic planning.  Participants process through a disciplined situational analysis of the Great American Soft Drink Company as it assesses its declining profitability, shifting market, changing workforce, and production/distribution issues.  The goal is to identify the strategies and tactics that will be required to move Great American into the future.

What You Will Learn:

• Use a fact-based model for problem solving.
• Use a situational analysis technique to make decisions.
• Use a SWOT analysis.
• Develop strategy statements.
• Develop tactical approaches to execute strategies.
• Use case situational analysis on your own department as a result of having participated.

Prerequisites:
Participants would have had a fundamental leadership course as a prerequisite for this program.

Date/Time/Location: (All listed times are CST)

Thu 7/15/2010 8:30am-4:30pm : Waukesha, WI
Thu 9/23/2010 8:30am-4:30pm : Palatine, IL
Tue 12/14/2010 8:30am-4:30pm : Waukesha, WI

Special Notations:

7.0 Strategic HRCI Credits