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Writing a Strategy

Date: 19th October 2021
Venue: “Virtual” platform delivery

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Date: 23rd November 2021
Venue: “Virtual” platform delivery

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Learn how to create professionally-written strategic documents in a business context, including a business case, communications strategy or decision-making document

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand what factors help to create a successful strategy
  • Learn the skills to develop a logical, convincing business case, comms strategy or decision-making document
  • Discover useful templates and frameworks for developing strategies
  • Learn how to communicate information in a logical and clear manner
The Institute of Leadership & Management

The Institute of Leadership and Management (TILM) has approved this training course. TILM combines years of research, knowledge and innovation to champion the leadership agenda for all and since 1947 they have carried out extensive research into the knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours and values of great leadership. Based on TILM’s core leadership values, this course meets the standard that enables learners who have completed to access the following benefits:

  • Being eligible for membership of  The Institute of Leadership and Management and will receive an ICPS/ TILM joint Certificate of achievement for the course
  • Access to a raft of resources to help you with your continuing professional development, including an award-winning library of e-learning content
  • A community of over 30,000 members worldwide enabling you to collaborate and grow your knowledge and skills
  • Receipt of weekly news updates, podcasts and cutting-edge research and a monthly published journal and invitations to topical webinars
  • Authorisation to use approved letters AMInstLM (Associate Member of The Institute of Leadership and Management) after your name for business correspondence
9:15
Registration
9:45
Chair's Introduction
10:00
Session One
What does a successful strategy look like?
  • Learning lessons from real-life examples
  • Some useful templates to create a logical flow
11:30
Coffee
11:45
Session Two
Setting up the case study

From writer to audience:
  • Who are the stakeholders in the strategy-writing process?
  • Who can help and what can we do to help overcome barriers to success?
12:45
Lunch
13:45
Session Three
Case study planning and writing a strategy a practical exercise
Coffee
15:30
Session Four
Review and edit
  • What's worked well and are there any unanswered questions?
  • Reviewing strategy to identify strengths and any potential weaknesses
16:15
Close

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