Strategic Business Planning Excel Course
On innovative Business Planning Training Course with coaching support that develops competency and delivers a credible and actionable strategic plan.
Strategic Business Planning in B2B - Excel
This programme builds on the Essential programme by including 3 one-to-one online coaching sessions with a highly experienced B2B marketing professional. The ‘Strategic Business Planning in B2B – Excel’ provides you with all the essential knowledge of key strategic planning principles. The coaching support enables you to develop a credible strategic plan that has been reviewed by an independent B2B marketing professional.
This Business Planning training course structure requires you to commit your time and effort to learn about the different B2B marketing and strategic planning concepts and to undertake the scenario based assessments. These assessments require analytical thinking and application of knowledge gained. Furthermore there are structured activities to be competed in each module. These activities are focused on developing key elements of your strategic business plan as part of the learning module.
Price
€1200
Guided Learning hours
10.5 HOURS
In this Business Planning training course, you receive 3 coaching sessions with a marketing professional to help you complete this training course and develop the business plan within the timeframe. If you think you may need more support, the Elite programme may be more suitable for you. It includes 9 coaching sessions with a B2B marketing professional.
You are free to book these sessions whenever you feel you need additional support. The coaching sessions are designed to answer any questions you may have about the learning content, to clarify the concepts and to review the progress of your strategic plan.
We would recommend that you choose the programme that supports your learning style, the level of support you may need and the quality of output the business needs from this programme.
Learning Objectives:
- To comprehend the strategic process and the key interconnected elements and dependencies in business
- To explore strategic objective setting around financial and non-financial goals
- To appreciate how to develop a credible business strategy based on analysis of the business and its markets
- To analyse the business risks and determine how to manage risk to ensure strategic objectives are achieved
- To establish how to translate strategy into action
Our e-learning programmes include templates and toolkits you will use during the programme as part of the structured activities. As a result our programmes have been optimised for desktop and laptop use. The content has been tested to operate on iOS and Android devices, although we do not recommend this option for undertaking the learning programme.
- A credible business growth plan
- A risk management plan with assigned responsibilities
- An action plan to execute the business growth strategy
- An unvalidated strategic planning benchmark assessment
1. Business and market analysis
In this business and market analysis module you will cover the following areas:
- Sales history analysis
- SWOT analysis
- SLEPTC analysis
- Primary and secondary market research methods
Each of these are crucial activities for informing your strategic growth plans. By the end of this module, you should have completed Tabs 3, 4 and 5 of your Strategic Planning Toolkit.
2. Goal setting
In this goal setting module you will cover the following areas:
- Visioning goals and objectives
- Establishing SMART goals
- Realising goals
By the end of this module, you should have populated part of Tab 6 of your Strategic Planning Toolkit.
3. Planning for growth
In this planning for growth module you will cover the following:
- Key strategies for growth using the Ansoff matrix
- The business growth planning gap
- Structuring your growth plans using the Business Model Canvas
By the end of this module, you should have completed Tab 6 of your Strategic Planning Toolkit.
4. Financial planning
In this financial planning module you will cover the following:
- Revenue streams and maximising revenue flows into the business
- Cost structures and their characteristics
- Funding your business growth
By the end of this module, you should have fully populated the “revenue streams” and “cost structures” sections on Tabs 7, 8 and 9 of your Strategic Planning Toolkit.
5. Customer targeting
In this customer targeting module you will cover the following:
- Customer segmentation
- Channels to reach customer segments
- Customer relationships i.e. the type of relationships you can establish with your customer segments
By the end of this module, you should have fully populated the “customer segments” and “channels” and “customer relationships” sections on Tabs 7, 8 and 9 of your Strategic Planning Toolkit.
6. Product/ service planning
In this product/ service planning module you will cover the following:
- The importance of a value proposition
- Building a customer profile in order to develop a value proposition
- Developing the customer focused value proposition
By the end of this module, you should have fully populated the “value proposition”section on Tabs 7, 8 and 9 of your Strategic Planning Toolkit.
7. Operational planning
In this operational planning module you will cover the following:
- Key business activities
- Key business resources
- Key business partnerships
By the end of this module, you should have fully populated the “Key Activities” and “Key Resources” and “Key Partnerships” sections on Tabs 7, 8 and 9 of your Strategic Planning Toolkit.
8. Managing risk
In this managing risk module you will cover the following:
- Risk assessment
- Risk evaluation
- Risk management
- Using the risk register tool
By the end of this module, you should have fully populated the “risk register” section on Tab 10 of your Strategic Planning Toolkit.
9. Moving from planning into action
In this moving from planning into action module you will cover the following:
- Embracing strategic agility
- Staying on track with your growth strategy
- Establishing stakeholder buy-in
- Communicating the strategy
- Establishing a management forum
This e-learning programme can be completed at a pace to suit you. The programme is accessible for a period of up to 9 months from the purchase date.
All of our e-learning programmes have adopted Ofqual’s Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF), to estimate the learning duration associated with this learning programme.
The Guided Learning Hours (GLH) comprises the total time allocated to supported learning during a learning programme. This includes studying learning content, completing assessments and contact time with a coach/tutor/assessor.
Guided Learning Hours: 10.5 hours.
The Total Qualification Time (TQT) comprises the time it should take to complete a learning programme, including studying learning content, completing assessments, contact time with a coach/tutor/assessor and undertaking activities.
Total Qualification Time: 56.5 hours.
This timing reflects the methodology of our applied learning programmes, where learners will have structured activities to complete in order to produce a valuable business deliverable from each learning programme.
- 3 coaching sessions over the course of your learning programme to support you in developing your strategic plan
- Full course content and examples
- Online support through a dedicated online forum with guaranteed 48 hour response
- Identification of additional reading and learning material
- Certification of Achievement – At the end of the programme after you have completed all the modules, assessments and four coaching sessions, you will be eligible for a Certificate of Achievement. This will include a review of the deliverables produced over the course of the programme. The certificate will include the overall grade you have achieved in your assessments. In addition, you will receive a CPD Certificate recognising your CPD award of 40 hours.
Your purchase is risk free as we provide a choice of secure payment options and offer a full Money Back Guarantee, if you are not satisfied with any of our e-learning programmes
- €1200 + VAT (where applicable)
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This course is currently available for purchase online in the countries listed below. If your country is not listed, please contact us directly via our contact page to make alternative arrangements for ordering and payment.
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovak Republic and United Kingdom. For the UK a course purchase is outside the scope of UK VAT and VAT will not be charged.
What is my total cost? €1200*
* VAT or Digital Tax may apply depending on your location
Business planning training course content author
The content of this Strategic Business Planning programme has been authored by Ray Clarke, a highly experienced business strategy and marketing professional in B2B. Ray has 25 years of experience in the B2B industry, working in senior management roles in both client and agency side. As a business & marketing strategy consultant, he has advised on and developed strategic business plans for organisations of all sizes, in multiple industry sectors, across the UK and Europe. This wealth of experience is demonstrated in the quality of the programme content and in the practical, outcome focused nature of the programme. The course content has been peer-reviewed by senior strategy consultants who also have both client side and agency side experience working with startups, SMEs and large multinational enterprises.