Strategy and Performance Management

This course empowers professionals to formulate strategies that drive impact and implement performance management systems that link effort to outcomes. Participants gain the tools to monitor progress, improve accountability, and adapt to strategic shifts.

HOW YOU BENEFIT

• Design and implement effective strategic plans
• Align organizational performance with strategy
• Use KPIs, dashboards, and M&E to drive results
• Foster a performance-oriented organizational culture

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Strategy and planning officers
• Department heads and business unit leaders
• Performance monitoring and evaluation officers
• Policy and program managers

DURATION

5 Days

COURSE MODULES

Module 1: Foundations of Strategic Planning

• Understanding strategy in a dynamic context
• Vision, mission, and goal alignment
• Strategic analysis (PESTEL, SWOT, stakeholder mapping)

Module 2: Strategy Formulation Tools

• Logical framework and results chains
• Competitive positioning and value propositions
• Scenario development and strategic alternatives

Module 3: Cascading Strategy into Organizational Units

• Departmental alignment and unit objectives
• Role clarity and accountability frameworks
• Linking operational plans to strategy

Module 4: Performance Management Concepts

• Results-based vs. activity-based performance
• The Balanced Scorecard and strategy maps
• Setting SMART performance indicators

Module 5: Developing and Using KPIs

• Selecting effective KPIs across functions
• Leading and lagging indicators
• Data collection and analysis methods

Module 6: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Systems

• M&E frameworks and logical models
• Theory of change vs. results frameworks
• M&E integration with planning cycles

Module 7: Performance Reporting and Dashboards

• Designing real-time reporting tools
• Using traffic-light indicators
• Analyzing trends and exceptions

Module 8: Organizational Performance Reviews

• Mid-year and annual performance reviews
• Variance analysis and performance audits
• Communicating results internally and externally

Module 9: Leadership for Performance Excellence

• Motivating teams toward shared goals
• Performance contracts and appraisals
• Coaching and feedback culture

Module 10: Institutionalizing Strategy and Performance Culture

• Linking rewards and recognition to performance
• Continuous improvement and learning loops
• Creating adaptive and agile performance systems