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      ESSEC Business School

      Hôtel “De l'étoile” - a hotel in crisis?

      Skills you'll gain: Revenue Management, Competitive Analysis, Stakeholder Communications, Hospitality Management, Demand Planning, Hotel Operations, Financial Analysis, Strategic Planning, Presentations, Brand Management, Market Analysis, Sales Management, Profit and Loss (P&L) Management

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      105 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      École normale supérieure

      Les transitions énergétique & écologique dans les pays du Sud

      Skills you'll gain: Economic Development, Socioeconomics, Environmental Science, Energy and Utilities, Environment, Corporate Sustainability, International Finance, Environmental Policy, Environmental Resource Management, Risk Management, Economics, Policy, and Social Studies, Economics, Environmental Regulations, Banking, Governance, Accounting

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      372 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      CCNA Foundations – Networking Basics and Cisco IOS Essentials

      Skills you'll gain: OSI Models, Network Troubleshooting, TCP/IP, Network Protocols, Network Planning And Design, General Networking, Networking Hardware, Network Administration, Network Routers, Network Infrastructure, Computer Networking, Local Area Networks, System Configuration, Network Switches, Systems Administration, Configuration Management, Command-Line Interface, iOS Development

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      43 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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      University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

      Sustainability Reporting: From Regulation to Implementation

      Skills you'll gain: Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG), Sustainability Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Business Reporting, Data Storytelling, Compliance Reporting, Data Visualization, Management Reporting, Environmental Regulations, Compliance Management, Financial Reporting, Annual Reports, Stakeholder Communications, Strategic Communication, Corporate Communications, Business Ethics, Regulatory Requirements, Stakeholder Engagement, Benchmarking, Report Writing

      4.4
      Rating, 4.4 out of 5 stars
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      15 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Institut Mines-Télécom

      Digital Business - Understand the digital world

      Skills you'll gain: Digital Transformation, Business Transformation, Entrepreneurship, Technology Strategies, Emerging Technologies, Business Technologies, Innovation, Business Strategies, Business Modeling, Market Dynamics, Network Model

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      138 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Illinois Tech

      Building with Code: Programming Fundamentals and Open Source

      Skills you'll gain: Open Source Technology, Package and Software Management, Web Development, Linux, Shell Script, Database Design, Relational Databases, Web Applications, Web Development Tools, Test Driven Development (TDD), Python Programming, Linux Administration, Databases, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Full-Stack Web Development, Application Deployment, Bash (Scripting Language), Scripting Languages, Computer Programming, Development Testing

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      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      59 reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      IBM

      GenAI for Execs & Business Leaders: Formulate Your Use Case

      Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Risk Mitigation, Risk Analysis, Feasibility Studies, Brainstorming, Generative AI Agents, Business Priorities, Goal Setting, Business Solutions, Ideation, Innovation, Strategic Decision-Making

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      47 reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      University of Washington

      U101: Understanding College and College Life

      Skills you'll gain: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Student Services, Student Support and Services, Productivity, Time Management, Personal Development, Planning, Decision Making, Adaptability, Relationship Building, Social Skills

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      497 reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Capitals Coalition

      Valuing nature and people to inform business decision-making

      Skills you'll gain: Stakeholder Engagement, Corporate Sustainability, Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG), Business Risk Management, Natural Resource Management, Sustainability Reporting, Cost Benefit Analysis, Human Capital, Business Metrics, Decision Making, Project Scoping, Data Collection

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      51 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Coursera Project Network

      Strategically Build and Engage Your Network on LinkedIn

      Skills you'll gain: LinkedIn, Drive Engagement, Content Creation, Social Media Content, Professional Networking, Social Media, Relationship Building, Branding, Professional Development, Strategic Partnership

      4.5
      Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      330 reviews

      Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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      Salesforce

      Conversational Selling Playbook for SDRs

      Skills you'll gain: Overcoming Objections, Prospecting and Qualification, Lead Generation, Sales Development, Sales Prospecting, Cold Calling, Emotional Intelligence, Consultative Selling, Phone Sales, Selling Techniques, Sales Strategy, Rapport Building, Empathy, Active Listening, Value Propositions, Persona Development

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      45 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      University of Virginia Darden School Foundation

      The Strategist's Challenge

      Skills you'll gain: Strategic Thinking, Business Strategy, Competitive Analysis, Strategic Decision-Making, Organizational Strategy, Market Analysis, Analysis, Business Analysis, Business Consulting, Value Propositions, Business Economics

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      74 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    In summary, here are 10 of our most popular strategic planning courses

    • Hôtel “De l'étoile” - a hotel in crisis? : ESSEC Business School
    • Les transitions énergétique & écologique dans les pays du Sud: École normale supérieure
    • CCNA Foundations – Networking Basics and Cisco IOS Essentials: Packt
    • Sustainability Reporting: From Regulation to Implementation: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    • Digital Business - Understand the digital world: Institut Mines-Télécom
    • Building with Code: Programming Fundamentals and Open Source: Illinois Tech
    • GenAI for Execs & Business Leaders: Formulate Your Use Case: IBM
    • U101: Understanding College and College Life: University of Washington
    • Valuing nature and people to inform business decision-making: Capitals Coalition
    • Strategically Build and Engage Your Network on LinkedIn : Coursera Project Network

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    Frequently Asked Questions about Strategic Planning

    Strategic planning is the process by which an organization sets its goals, defines its path for achieving them, and allocates required resources accordingly. This process of creating a business strategy is important because it establishes agreement around the common goals of an enterprise and provides a shared framework for evaluating progress. Thus, beyond simply helping to guide the annual budget, strategic planning is an important leadership and management tool.

    The strategic planning process can be broken down in a variety of ways, but generally has three phases: strategic analysis, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation. The analysis phase requires a capabilities analysis of the business as well as consideration of its competitive position within the industry structure it operates in. Formulation takes these insights as a basis for setting achievable goals and deciding on appropriate courses of action to achieve them.

    Of course, the most challenging phase of strategic planning is implementation. As any manager knows, even the most careful planning process can never anticipate all the complexities the future holds - particularly considering the rapid changes occurring in our world today. Strategic management means knowing how to adapt to changing circumstances as the business moves forward while continuing to rely upon the goals set in the strategic planning process for guidance.‎

    Every manager in an organization must understand strategic planning, as this process is typically central to setting annual budgets and reporting for each department. Thus, Human resources (HR) managers, sales and marketing managers, financial managers, and other department heads need to be able to provide useful inputs into the planning process as well as participate in its ongoing implementation.

    Strategic planning skills are especially important for top-level executives, such as chief executive officers (CEOs), chief operating officers (COOs), chief financial officers (CFOs), and other “C-suite” positions in a company. These executives are responsible for devising the overarching strategy for the company, establishing the policies required to meet them, and ensuring that managers understand and follow through on their implementation. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, chief executives earned a median salary of $184,460 in May 2019, making this a very highly compensated skill set.‎

    Yes. Coursera offers a wide range of business courses as well as Specializations online, including opportunities to learn about strategic planning specifically from top-ranked schools like the University of Virginia and Copenhagen Business School. You can even learn about this skill as part of Coursera’s full-fledged online MBA programs offered by schools like the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Macquarie University.

    Regardless of what your career goals are, or the educational strategy you’re pursuing to achieve them, Coursera lets you learn online on a flexible schedule. Thus, you can learn about strategic planning while continuing to work at your existing job, making this an excellent choice for mid-career professionals as well as business-minded students that want a high-level skill set as they begin their career.‎

    The skills and experience that you might need to already have before starting to learn strategic planning may include experience with organizational management work, assessing company practices and methods, and helping executives to make decisions that could help them guide their organizations in more focused ways. In much the same way that a financial planner helps people understand their investments and how to make the most of their return, strategic planners can help companies set corporate priorities, focus the company’s energy and resources into potentially high ROI activities, and help to strengthen overall operations. Being able to have these skills and experience before learning strategic planning may make you a valuable asset to a team.‎

    The kind of people that are best suited for work that involves strategic planning are those people who display good analytical characteristics for business vision, have leadership confidence, are strong with data and numbers, are computer literate, and can communicate well. People in strategic planning roles usually work in analyzing and assessing business environments to come up with a strategic formulation to organize business units. To do this high-level work, they often are smart, detail-oriented, have agreeable personalities, and can get the job done. These people may also have a bachelor's or master’s degree in accounting, business, finance, or economics.‎

    You might know if learning strategic planning is right for you if you have enthusiasm for directing the level of change in a group, a team, a business, or a corporate organization. Learning about strategic planning can take on many facets, from understanding the basics of a more human resources focus for employee changes to a more technology-based focus for a company-wide change to digital transformation methods. Learning strategic planning can be a strong stepping stone to staying abreast of changes in business processes and practices. Strategic planning is a large field of opportunity for a creative, detail-focused, innovative individual to take, and if this is interesting to you, you may find this to be a rewarding new career path.‎

    Online Strategic Planning courses offer a convenient and flexible way to enhance your knowledge or learn new Strategic Planning skills. Choose from a wide range of Strategic Planning courses offered by top universities and industry leaders tailored to various skill levels.‎

    When looking to enhance your workforce's skills in Strategic Planning, it's crucial to select a course that aligns with their current abilities and learning objectives. Our Skills Dashboard is an invaluable tool for identifying skill gaps and choosing the most appropriate course for effective upskilling. For a comprehensive understanding of how our courses can benefit your employees, explore the enterprise solutions we offer. Discover more about our tailored programs at Coursera for Business here.‎

    This FAQ content has been made available for informational purposes only. Learners are advised to conduct additional research to ensure that courses and other credentials pursued meet their personal, professional, and financial goals.

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