Course Description
Too often, organizations fail to turn their strategies into operational reality; this where the Balanced Scorecard comes in. By translating strategy into a balanced set of objectives covering all aspects of operations and setting clear measurements it enables organizations to put strategy at the heart of everything they do. It helps executives and senior managers to steer the ship whilst enabling managers and staff to contribute more fully to the success of the organization. The Balance Scorecard empowers people to drive internal processes that deliver great customer service and ultimately financial success.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Create greater awareness of organizational priorities
- Demonstrate the effectiveness of changes made
- Secure increased engagement at all levels
- Improve communication
- Energize initiatives and creativity
- Ensure that changes made are value-added
- Allow the translation of strategy into tangible results to be measured and monitored
Who Should Attend?
- Executives
- Managers with responsibility for creating or managing a Balanced Scorecard
- Financial Officers and Controllers
- Process Managers
- Strategic Planning Managers
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One
Strategic Planning and the Balanced Scorecard
- Introduction to the Balanced Scorecard
- Benefits of the Balanced Scorecard
- Linking Mission and Vision to operations
- Application and uses of the Balanced Scorecard
- The Financial, Customer, Process perspectives in detail
- Overview of the Balanced Scorecard creation process
- Strategy Maps and Strategic Themes
- Strategic Measures and Strategic Targets
- Lessons learned from Day 1
Section Two
Developing a Balanced Scorecard
- Create a strategy-centric organization
- The Learning & Growth perspective in detail
- Define strategy, identify strategic themes and build strategic linkages
- Engage the leadership team
- Importance of data collection, interviews, and focus groups
- Strategic documentation
- Work with the Case Study
- Strategic objectives and strategic themes
- Lessons learned from Day 2
Section Three
Measuring and Monitoring Strategic Performance
- Purpose of strategic measures and their relationship with KPIs
- Lead and lag measures
- Develop appropriate measures using the Strategy Map
- Examples of measures for each of the four perspectives
- How to implement the Balanced Scorecard
- Determine measures and targets
- Aligning balanced scorecard to the planning and budgeting process
- Case study activities
- Lessons learned from Day 3
Section Four
Implementing the Balanced Scorecard
- Map strategic initiatives
- The Strategic Management System and performance management
- Setting appropriate targets
- Plan for implementation
- Build a Balanced Scorecard from scratch
- Cascade the Balanced Scorecard across the organization – creating a business unit, functional, support and personal scorecards.
- Aligning incentives to the balanced scorecard – ‘what you measure is what you get’
- Strategy Review Meetings
- Case study activities
- Lessons learned from Day 4
Section Five
Pulling it all Together
- Review and enhance the Balanced Scorecards built on Day 4
- How to make it work in your organization
- Communicating the Balanced Scorecard
- Creating an outline project plan
- Identify key roles and key players
- Identify potential pitfalls and barriers to change
- Top Tips for success
- Create a personal plan of action
- Lessons learned from the seminar