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Improve your employees' strategic management skills using the engaging video lessons in this Strategic Management in Business course. This short corporate learning course can help them to better understand decision making and goal-setting practices to improve their performance and productivity.

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Lesson 4 - Practical Application: Strategic Planning in Business Checklist

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About This Course

The video lessons included in this course offer convenient corporate training options for those needing to boost their strategic management skills. In around 10 minutes or less, the videos -- which were developed by professional instructors -- guide employees through the steps of strategic planning, formulating business goals, solving managerial problems and making good business decisions.

How It Works

By using the short lessons in this course, employees can quickly and easily strengthen their understanding of key strategic management concepts and principles. With the ability to complete this online training on both computers and mobile devices, company employees can take advantage of the course in the office, at home or wherever it fits their schedules.

Completing training with this course is entertaining and easy:

Short video lessons apply strategic management concepts to real-world examples
Videos contain tags so viewers can quickly rewatch key points
Multiple-choice lesson quizzes allow employees to quickly assess their grasp of covered topics
Chapter exams evaluate understanding of management and planning processes and strategies
A unit exam confirms employees' comprehension of major course concepts

How It Helps

Refreshes knowledge: To remain effective in the corporate world, employees regularly need to refresh their understanding of the fundamentals in strategic management, planning, business goal development and problem solving.
Builds key skills and techniques: The video lessons in this course offer straightforward, step-by-step explanations of business processes and strategies so that employees can incorporate them into their projects quickly.
Improves business decisions: This course teaches employees how to use decision-making tools, evaluate certainty and weigh risks so that they can make stronger, more informed business choices for the company.

Skills Covered

Chapter	Topics & Objectives
Strategic Planning & Management in Business	Examine the steps in the strategic planning and management processes in addition to exploring common business strategies.
Planning & Setting Business Goals	Learn about setting business goals, understand the role of planning in management and differentiate between types of planning.
Strategic Decision Making & Problem Solving	Find out about the decision-making process and tools while also studying what's involved in PERT analysis, SWOT analysis and managerial problem solving.

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