Strategy Management Technical Competencies

This module covers how to evaluate your strategic plan by maintaining focus on your plan’s actions and objectives. It also covers strategies that will help you determine when to make necessary changes to your plan.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

Several components make up the backbone of a strategic plan. This module goes over vision and mission statements, how to set up and align goals with a strategic plan, and how to analyze the plan and communicate the strategy with your teams and investors. The strategic plan helps you take all the information you have about your business and put it into practice.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In this course on Safe Lifting, you will learn about some of the common safe lifting practices that you can use in the workplace to avoid injury. There are many misconceptions about safe lifting that can cause you a lifetime of pain and back issues. This course will help you better educate yourself on safe lifting practices and avoid these issues.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In this course, you will take a look at how experienced researchers use market research fieldwork, and the ethics related to it, to aid in decision-making within your organization. We will look at market research and its impact on pricing strategy within an organization, and we’ll review its impact on advertising and public relations.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

Every business needs an organizational strategy. This strategy helps to align employees with the mission and goals of the organization. This course will introduce you to what an organizational strategy is, what makes an effective organizational strategy and how you can implement the strategy.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In KnowledgeCity’s course on Creating Value Through Strategy, you’ll learn what a market diagnosis is and what is needed to make it meaningful. From there, we’ll discuss different techniques for performing a market diagnosis and discover some research sources that are readily available. This course will also talk about understanding and allocating resources. It all ties together with a detailed discussion on gaining a competitive advantage.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

KnowledgeCity’s lessons on Corporate Global Strategy are all about globalization and global business strategies. In these lessons, we will talk about how globalization influences a corporation's strategy and competitive understanding. We will wrap up with a discussion on how to enter a foreign marketplace and discuss some successful strategies for doing business that multinational corporations use.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

For strategically agile organizations to enable their employees and teams to attain their goals, certain behaviors within the workplace must be reinforced and encouraged. In these lessons, you’ll gain a better understanding of how to promote a strategically agile organizational culture.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

When the work is identified, well-understood, and the order to complete the work is known, you can create your final project schedule. In this module, you’ll learn about assigning resources, limitations, factoring in constraints and risks, how to make final adjustments, and more.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In KnowledgeCity’s course on Tactic Development and Evaluation, you will learn the basics of tactics, strategic goals, and how they can help your organization. These lessons will cover development of specific and measurable tactics and ways to ensure they are achievable, relevant, and timely. This course will also focus on how to link tactics to your strategic plan, and how to evaluate and revise tactics when issues arise, so they remain aligned to your strategic plan.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In this course on the Core Concepts of Competitive Strategy, you will learn the five competitive forces that determine the profitability of any industry or business type. You will discover the value of differentiating your product or brand and how to use this distinction to your advantage to build and sustain your competitive edge. You will also learn that building a competitive strategy is different than short-term marketing tactics and that it requires understanding the customer’s value propos

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In these lessons on Growth Strategy and Growth Planning, you’ll learn the many strategies available for a company that wants to focus on growth. You’ll also be able to identify and name each of the strategies, such as the variety of market growth strategies. The lessons will explore the value of strategic partnerships in terms of a growth strategy and talk about some of the associated pitfalls. By the end of these lessons, you’ll be able to identify organic growth strategies.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In this course, you’ll learn the benefits of using a vision to create different types of goals to measure progress and success. Adapting to changes during a plan is just as important as the plan itself, and it may be helpful to encourage employees to take part in the process. By motivating your team to adapt, you can find more success during growth. You will learn the steps needed to get accurate data about a transition and the common mistakes to avoid when analyzing that data.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In these lessons on Top-Down Accountability, you’ll learn how to imbue your organization with the shared value of responsibility. To adopt the right mindset for accountability, first you’ll learn what accountability looks like in a corporate leadership setting. You’ll discover how you can set an expectation of reliability by modeling positive habits in front of your employees, and how these attitudes can increase your team’s productivity.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In this course on Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy, you’ll explore the value of forming a corporate social responsibility strategy, gain insight into why companies develop and implement strategies, identify the philosophical and policy considerations of strategy implementation, and learn how to engage employees in initiatives while promoting community inclusion.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In these lessons on Employee Development Strategy, you’ll learn some employee development tactics that will help you encourage your staff to reach their potential. These lessons will cover the role of front-line management in employee development, as well as how to use some employee development strategies, how to create a support organizational infrastructure, and how organizational strategy is linked to employee development planning.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In this course, you will learn how to adopt priority-oriented work practices. This includes how to meet deadlines and schedule your work using timeboxing. You will also learn how to navigate office relationships and accept accountability for your roles and responsibilities. By the end of this course, you will have the skills to complete your priorities and be more successful in your work.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

In these lessons on Disadvantages of Communication Technology, you’ll learn about the potential drawbacks of workplace communications technologies and how to avoid them. You’ll learn that technology can sometimes cause information overload. This course will help you prevent yourself from getting distracted, while staying accountable and on-task. We will discuss how you can avoid creating misunderstandings when you communicate with others remotely.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

An integrated management system (IMS) can help an organization ensure that all its processes and systems work together seamlessly to maximize the organization’s resources and help ensure quality products, safe environments for the workforce, and compliance with regulations. In this course, you’ll learn what goes into an IMS and how they can benefit your organization. You’ll also learn how to assess whether your organization needs an IMS, and steps for implementing one successfully.

Strategy Management Technical Competencies

Does your organization discuss mistakes, progress and results openly and honestly? Accountability is one of the pillars of a successful team culture. An accountable team can be created by leaders, managers and employees being proactive and collaborative. In this course, you will learn why it’s better to avoid focusing on mistakes or missed deadlines and instead focus on problem solving and learning from your team’s downfalls.