October is fast approaching and with it commences the planning season among businesses and industry players. Nowadays corporations don’t just plan, but strategize. Mere planning just won’t do anymore if companies want to keep up with the competition or better yet get ahead. With stiff competition pushing in at all angles of corporate life, strategic planning becomes a necessity. Compared to mere planning—the listing down of what to do and when to do for the coming year, strategic planning uses various business analysis techniques. Strategic planning allows company leaders to define corporate strategy or direction, make decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.
Competition is no longer simple. Gone where the days when all a company needs to do and think about is how to come up with a better product than those similarly available products in the market; days when competition is merely a matter of price and its appeal to the consumers. Branding is now the new industry hype. Branding not only with prime products but encompasses the whole organization. Coming out as the best manufacturer or service provider is not enough. You also have to be among the best employer, the company with the best social responsibility programs.
With the entry of these international companies with better capital investments, local corporations must consider competition at all levels from product; research and development; marketing & advertising; logistics, and even manpower. More than ever before, strategic planning in all areas becomes a necessary tool for organizations.
One company acknowledges this need and provides other corporate entities a means to invest in their future. Leaders Link Training and Consulting, a company who makes it their business to see other businesses succeed, offers a timely training program for its October Public run. Strategic Planning Facilitation, a seminar workshop that will help HR managers, organizational development practitioners gain practical and better strategic planning facilitation skills will be run on October 16-17, 2008. The seminar is an activity based program that will focus plans and strategies based on the company’s stated mission, vision and values. Financial Forecasting and Budgeting which will be held on October 24, 2008 is a seminar workshop designed to help managers have a better business planning skills in terms of budget forecasts. Among other things, the workshop will discuss matters like how to develop a strategic budget plan. Another workshop, this time targeting marketing people, is the Strategic Marketing to be held on October 30-31, 2008. This two-day activity-based seminar will help participants discover the competitive advantage of their company that could translate to growth opportunities and develop multiple & effective revenue-generating marketing approaches. For information and inquiries regarding this trainings please contact Leaders Link Training and Consulting Center at the following numbers (032) 422-5552, & (032) 422-8505 or visit the company Web site at www.leaderslink.org.Being a part of the very competitive world of business, corporate leaders must be able to find ways to keep the edge ahead of their competition. The best route to do this is to have your people continuously developed themselves by creating a culture of learning in your own organization. Creating a learning organization, a place where, according to Peter Singe, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole (reality) together, will be an excellent strategy to move an organization to the direction they want to take in flying colors.
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