Strategic Planning - Need Help

Hello Everyone,

Good day to all! I am a new training manager for one of the hospitality firms and I was wondering if anyone could help me with the following to be effective at strategic planning training:

1. Preparation/Requirements - what I need to do or gather to get started
2. Resources - research materials
3. Activities - for managers

I am hoping for positive replies. :) Many thanks!

Dear Phil,

Conducting strategic planning is the responsibility of your top management. Teaching individuals about strategic planning is one aspect, while ensuring that managers understand how their company has implemented strategic planning is another. Therefore, I recommend that you approach your top management or strategic planning department to organize training sessions on strategic planning.

Key tools of strategic planning include environmental analysis, organizational analysis utilizing SWOT analysis, Michael Porter's 5 Forces, McKinsey's 7S framework, and more.

A crucial part of this training should focus on distinguishing between operational efficiency and strategy. These two concepts are distinct, yet operational efficiency is often confused with strategy.

While there is a wealth of books and online resources available on strategic planning, the key lies in customizing the content to suit your specific needs.

This training module is designed for experienced managers, and it's important to note that seniority does not always equate to maturity.

Best regards,

Dinesh V Divekar

If you are into recruitment, you will need to do proper study and analysis of the situation and the requirements of your unit. Make sure that you have the tools ready to tackle turnover and employee issues. I have faced it, so I would suggest you go with a psychological analysis of the manpower before preparing any specific training schedules or activities. Picking up redundant modules would make you land on a chaotic surface or situation, whichever applies.

Just go through these few links; hope these would help you understand the basic facets of the details you are looking for:

Pertaining to recruitment and attrition

- [Recruitment Requirement](http://www.pmselect.com/html/recruitment_requirement.html)
- [Opinion - Measuring Attrition](http://hrit.co.nz) ([Search on Cite](https://www.citehr.com/results.php?q=Opinion%20Measuring%20Attrition) | [Search on Google](https://www.google.com/search?q=Opinion%20Measuring%20Attrition))
- [How to reduce the attrition rate of employees](http://starredreviews.com/how-to-reduce-the-attrition-rate-of-employees/7873/#respond)
- [Innovative Hiring Strategies](http://dare.co.in) ([Search on Cite](https://www.citehr.com/results.php?q=Innovative%20Hiring%20Strategies) | [Search on Google](https://www.google.com/search?q=Innovative%20Hiring%20Strategies))

Thanks

Thank you for your replies. Very helpful indeed. I now have an idea where to get started. As soon as I have developed this, I will let you guys know how it went and share the materials as well.

Many Thanks!