Course Description
This training course focuses on strategic planning and implementation for the Healthcare sector. It will guide strategic managers and clinicians on the best possible ways to set-out a clear vision and long-term strategic direction for an organization (Hospital).
The course is designed to offer a systematic approach to managers working in the 21st-century healthcare setting by providing future direction on how to get there with slim resources available at their disposal. Also, it highlights the process of setting key priorities and the importance of tracking and measuring service progress to achieve both government and institutional goals.
For effective healthcare management, holistic strategic plan development and choosing the right implementation approach cannot be overemphasized in providing critical services like Healthcare. Thus, several factors such as government policy, technology, and funding are involved in this process.
In this training course, attendees will discover how to align their organizational strategy with the stakeholder’s power and interest factors, be able to delegate when necessary, measure progress timely, and make tactical decisions when needed. Discuss ways of assessing strategic objectives that have been met and those that have not, identifying strengths and weaknesses, areas of improvement, documenting lessons learned, and recognizing teams’ and individuals’ contributions to the process.
This training course will cover:
- Principles and methods of strategy development, Options Generation, and Decision-making in the Healthcare Sector
- The importance of creativity and innovation in strategic management for the healthcare sector
- Management and mitigation of strategic and operational risks in the critical service sector
- Strategic planning and communications to ensure understanding, commitment, and accountability from top-to-bottom
- Evaluation and review of performance against plans feeding into agile organizational behavior
Training Objectives
After this training course, you will be able to:
- Understand the concept of strategic management in the healthcare sector by differentiating between strategy and planning
- Communicate the healthcare organization’s Vision, Mission, and Values
- Se out clear future direction with achievable goals and milestones to measure interim achievements
- Recognize strategic, tactical, and operational risks and how to mitigate them effectively
- Identify Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and related Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track deliverables and outcomes
Who Should Attend?
This course is suitable for a wide range of healthcare professionals, but will greatly benefit:
- Strategic tactical and operational managers and clinicians are responsible for strategy, marketing, research, operations, HR, finance, etc.
- Managers and clinicians in charge of risk management
- Line and functional managers, team leaders, and supervisors across departments
- Strategic managers who want to assess their current approach to strategy
- Operational managers who are looking to take on more strategic responsibilities
- Investors/ pathfinders in the healthcare sector
Organisational benefits
- Improved confidence in making more informed decisions and contributions to strategic plans and executions
- Gained a better understanding of how individuals and teams can contribute to achieving strategic objectives
- Be able to choose and apply relevant performance measures
- Recognized the need to prioritize resources to achieve strategic objectives
- Business plans that are consistent with the organization’s overall vision and objectives
- Increased acceptance of responsibility for the achievement of strategic objectives
Attendees’ benefits
As a direct result of attending this training course, you will be able to:
- Identify the factors that will influence strategic decisions
- Understand types of businesses, and business structures, in general
- Gain better insight into the organization’s strategic challenges and opportunities
- Confident in providing strategic input in a wider range of situations
- Recognize how various types of strategic initiatives are translated into operational plans
- Take on higher-level, more responsible roles in the organization going forward in both medium and long-term
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