Strategic and Business Planning

Course Tutor Alan Lawrie independent consultant and author who specialises in strategy and organisational development for voluntary organisations.  He is the author of five books on different aspects of managing voluntary organisations including the best selling,  The Complete Guide to Strategic and Business Planning.

We will provide tea / coffee 

Strategic and Business Planning

A one day course to enable voluntary organisations to plan ahead, agree a strategy and draw up a useful business plan to make the case for funding your organisation.  This course is designed to help managers and trustees think and act strategically and to ensure that their organisation has a credible and realistic plan that will win support.  The course is packed full of real life examples, case studies and tools and techniques to use in your organisation.  It will look at how to design and lead a planning process that brings people together and leads to real change.  The course is practical, relevant to local organisations and based on real life examples.

Outcomes

At the end of the course participants will:

• Understand the relevance of strategy to a voluntary organisation.
• Know how to lead a strategic planning process
• Be able to use a range of planning tools and techniques
• Know how to cost and build a sustainable income base
• Be able to draft a business plan
• Appreciate the key issues involved in bringing about strategic change.