Business Execution - Advanced

Creating an actionable strategy to take a business forward is one of a manager's biggest challenges. It's easy to get bogged down in business as usual, but the ability to produce a coherent direction and measure its impact is a valuable skill in any business. By completing this course, you'll be able to demonstrate to employers that you are capable of creating a team's strategy. 

Why do this course?

• Looks great on your CV
• Shows recruiters you have the skills they are looking for
• Gives you a great grounding in team management

Understanding the Fundamentals 

• This course will review the drivers of business execution and the fundamental concepts that companies need to pay attention to in order to realise their plans.
• The course looks at the leadership behaviours that foster actionable strategy, as well as the value of selecting the right people for the right roles.
• It also considers how to create and manage a 'get it done' culture.

Crafting a Business Strategy that Executes

• This course covers the criteria for creating an executable strategy.
• It helps you to develop a strategy by demonstrating how to evaluate strategic initiatives and then prioritise, assign accountability, and translate those initiatives into short-term actionable targets.
• The course also shows you how to direct your organisation's strategy by appropriately allocating resources to make those actions a reality.
• And it focuses on how to create a strategy that's planned, integrated, measurable, and supportable.

Linking Strategy to People and Operations

• This course offers techniques for effectively communicating a common understanding of the mission, values, and vision that drives your strategy.
• You'll learn how to cascade balanced scorecard objectives to help employees understand how department strategy and their personal work connect to organisational goals.
• The course also explains the importance of incentives to achieve objectives and of evaluating organisational competencies to develop employees who can execute your organisational strategy.

Monitoring and Evaluating Initiatives

• This course considers the importance of continually monitoring and evaluating strategy to ensure good execution.
• It looks at methods of monitoring the execution of strategy, such as actions plans, dashboards, strategic review meetings, and measuring employee engagement.
• And it demonstrates a four-step process for evaluating executed strategy and examines the methods of effectively revising strategy.

What’s included?

• Hands-on interactive exercises - learn by doing

In partnership with Skillsoft

reed.co.uk has partnered with SkillSoft, the world’s leading provider of eLearning, to offer you all the quality training you need. You will be learning on SkillSoft software. SkillSoft is the world leader in e-learning for businesses, and is used by multinational companies such as FedEx, Hilton, VirginMedia and Hewlett Packard. By training with SkillSoft you will be working with an industry recognised organisation and investing in training that employers already know and trust.

Please note:

Please allow 24 hours to receive your online training details. If your order is made over the weekend, your online training details will be provided on the following Monday morning.

This SkillSoft course is not aligned to any certification or exam - it is a course to teach knowledge and skills.

This course is designed specifically for for use on desktop browsers. Performance on mobile devices may vary and compatibility with non-desktop devices is not guaranteed.