Strategic Thinking

About This Course

A clear strategy is essential for any organisation to reach its goals, but it can be difficult to know where to start. In this one-day course, you’ll learn the key definitions and theories underpinning strategy development.

Run as an interactive workshop, with plenty of practical examples, you’ll leave the day with an understanding of how to formulate a strategy and set the right measures of success.

Course Outcomes

1. Understand strategy and its relationship to other types of plan
2. Know when and how to use key tools such as PESTEL and SWOT
3. Know how to formulate and write a strategy
4. Know how to set meaningful measures of success

About the Trainer: Jonathon Noble

Jonathon Noble is the Managing Director of Human Engine. After beginning his career in management consultancy with Accenture, Jonathon moved into local government, discovering a passion for blending commercial perspectives with a public sector ethos for quality and customer care.

In his last permanent role, Jonathon was the Commercial and Technology Director for Buckinghamshire County Council, spearheading a commercially minded approach to public service delivery and identifying new income streams and commercial models as an alternative to traditional cuts.

He founded Human Engine in 2018 with a mission to bring an entrepreneurial mindset to solving complex problems in the public sector more widely.