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Strategy Development Essentials
A Bootcamp for Starting, Creating, and Implementing a Better Plan
Master the art of strategic planning with this self-paced, online program. Learn to create clear, mission-driven strategies that align your team and resources for maximum impact. Upon completion, you’ll earn a digital badge from Canada’s top-ranked business school, showcasing your expertise in strategic leadership and execution.
Strategy Development Essentials
January 31, 2025
- Location:
- Online
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- Strategy Development Essentials
Crafting Focused
Strategies
for Lasting Impact
There are moments when the greatest attribute of leadership is providing yourself and your team with clarity and focus. But why are clarity and focus so elusive for organizations? It’s because we say yes—a lot. Leaders are constantly seeking new opportunities, which often leads to too many yeses.
The problem with saying yes without aligning it to your purpose is that you can lose your why among all the whats. You can’t do everything. You must choose what best serves your purpose, value proposition, and clients.
This program helps participants find clarity and focus while reimagining their organization’s future. It’s about assessing where you are today and mapping out the next destination. Strategy is the process of charting the steps from here to there, while staying true to your purpose. It’s also about building confidence—knowing who you are, what you’re good at, and identifying the best path forward for maximum impact.
Participants will enhance their ability to evaluate organizational health, gain confidence in leading strategic planning, and engage stakeholders effectively. They will master key planning tools to achieve clarity and focus, while recognizing the importance of communication and culture. The program addresses common pain points such as mission creep, resource misallocation, and low staff morale, aligning teams with a shared vision and maximizing resource efficiency to drive meaningful change.
Get Training in Marketable Skills
Organizing Teams & Resources
Strategic Thinking
Decision Making
Communication Skills
4 Reasons to Enrol
Flexible Learning for Busy Professionals
This self-paced program allows you to develop strategic planning skills on your own schedule, without disrupting your career.
Build a Meaningful Network
Connect with and learn from peers across a wide range of sectors, industries and professions.
Elevate Your Strategic Influence
Train directly with Chris Bosch, an experienced strategist who brings practical insights from his work with both large and small organizations.
Earn Higher Pay
Schulich ExecEd participants gain the confidence, skills and perspective to attain better roles, launch new ventures, and lead their teams to new heights.
Who Will Benefit
Aspiring Leaders
Individuals who are early in their leadership journey and want to step into strategic roles will benefit from this program. With a strong interest in business management and leadership, they will gain easy-to-implement strategic planning skills.
Mid-Career Leaders
Professionals with several years of leadership experience looking to refresh their strategic planning acumen and overcome organizational challenges. These individuals may be dealing with issues like resource misalignment or mission creep and are seeking advanced tools to better guide their teams and drive impactful change.
Strategists
Individuals tasked with shaping the future direction of their organizations, such as heads of strategy or senior advisors, will benefit from this program. They are looking for innovative approaches to strategy development, ensuring their plans remain adaptable in changing environments while aligning with the organization’s core mission and values.
Program Overview
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- Defining a strategic mindset
- Setting the stage: Good “rules” of engagement
- Diagnosing your current situation
- Researching your context: Performance (internal view) and landscape (external view) analysis
- Surveying your audiences
- Using appreciative inquiry
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- Creating a mission statement
- Creating a vision statement
- Understanding and articulating your value proposition
- Identifying and seizing your unique opportunities
- Defining who you serve
- Scenario building
- Setting your big goals
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- Identifying what needs to fundamentally change
- Determining what needs to be started, scaled, stopped, and slowed
- Sharing a planning template and explaining its components
- Providing definitions of important strategy terms
- Identifying key pain points
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- Considering cultural enablers and new behaviors
- Creating an operating plan
- Communicating the plan to your audiences
- Understanding change management basics
- Identifying execution pitfalls to watch for
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Winter 2025 Dates Time Strategy Development Essentials 1/2/2025 - 1/31/2025 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Faculty
What You Get
After completing the program, you'll receive an authentic digital badge from the top-ranked business school in Canada that employers will recognize.
As more and more companies look for candidates with specific skills, this badge on your CV will be a credible assurance of your achievements and expertise, allowing the right roles to find you faster.
Foundational Badge
Signifies that you’ve gained information and insight into new skills.
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