Strategic Planning and Management Control Course

Name: Strategic Planning and Management Control Course
Availability: InStock

Connect strategic priorities, resource allocation, performance measures, and corrective decisions in one management control system.

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Trabzon, Geneva, Casablanca, Istanbul, San Diego, Paris and more
Next session: 25 – 29 October 2026, Trabzon
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Strategic Planning and Management Control Course is a one-week advanced course for finance directors, controllers, FP&A leaders, strategy managers, and business-unit finance managers, who leave with a Strategy Execution and Management Control Framework. Participants connect strategic priorities, driver-based resource allocation, responsibility centers, budget governance, performance measures, review routines, and corrective decisions. Agile Leaders Training Center develops strategic planning and management control capability.

Who Should Attend

Finance leadership teams responsible for resource allocation, control architecture, and executive decision support
Planning teams responsible for assumptions, integrated plans, budgets, and rolling outlooks
Strategy teams responsible for objective cascades, execution reviews, and initiative governance
Business-unit teams responsible for targets, accountability, variances, and corrective action
Performance teams responsible for financial and non-financial measures and management reporting

The course assumes participants can interpret management accounts, budgets, and strategic objectives, and it leaves introductory accounting and basic spreadsheet skills outside its scope.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that must convert strategic priorities into governed resource and performance decisions.

Finance, FP&A, management accounting, and corporate strategy
Operations, transformation, performance management, and internal governance
Manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, and logistics
Financial services, technology, telecommunications, and professional services
Healthcare, retail, hospitality, and public-service organizations

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Build a strategic objective and accountability cascade
Apply driver-based resource allocation to strategic priorities
Design responsibility centers and management control measures
Analyze budget variances and execution exceptions
Evaluate financial and non-financial performance evidence
Build a governed review and corrective-action cycle

Course Agenda

Day 1: Strategy-to-Control Architecture

Strategic Objective Cascade Map
Value Driver and Outcome Logic Model
Planning Assumption Register
Strategy Execution Accountability Matrix
Management Control System Boundary Canvas

Day 2: Resource Allocation and Budget Governance

Driver-Based Resource Allocation Model
Strategic Initiative Funding Matrix
Budget Assumption Challenge Checklist
Scenario and Constraint Analysis Grid
Budget Governance Decision-Rights Framework

Day 3: Responsibility and Performance Measures

Responsibility Center Design Map
Controllability and Accountability Test
Financial Performance Measure Catalogue
Non-Financial Indicator Cause-and-Effect Map
Target and Tolerance Setting Worksheet

Day 4: Review, Variance, and Corrective Control

Budget Variance Decomposition Tree
Execution Exception Prioritization Matrix
Management Performance Review Pack
Corrective Action Decision Log
Escalation and Control Override Protocol

Day 5: Strategy Execution Control Practice

Exercise: Build an Objective and Accountability Cascade
Exercise: Allocate Resources Across Strategic Initiatives
Exercise: Diagnose Variances and Execution Exceptions
Exercise: Conduct a Management Performance Review
Capstone Exercise: Strategy Execution and Management Control Framework

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities that connect strategic priorities, resource decisions, performance evidence, and corrective control.

Suggested activity: challenge planning assumptions and trace their effect on operational drivers
Suggested activity: assign responsibility for measures while testing controllability and accountability
Suggested activity: separate price, volume, efficiency, and execution causes in a variance case
Suggested activity: defend corrective actions through a simulated executive review

FAQs

Who suits strategic planning and management control training?

Finance, planning, strategy, and business-unit leaders who already use budgets, management reports, and strategic objectives suit the training. The course assumes practical exposure to planning or performance decisions.

How does strategic planning and management control differ from budgeting training?

Strategic planning and management control connects objectives, accountability, resource allocation, measures, review, and corrective action. Budgeting training usually concentrates more narrowly on preparing and monitoring financial plans.

What is a management control system?

A management control system is the connected set of responsibilities, measures, information, review routines, and decisions used to guide execution and respond when results depart from strategic intent.

How should organizations analyze execution variances?

Organizations should separate operational drivers from planning assumptions, identify controllable and uncontrollable causes, assess strategic impact, assign decision ownership, and record corrective action with clear review points.

Conclusion

Participants take back a Strategy Execution and Management Control Framework containing objective cascades, resource-allocation logic, responsibility structures, measures, variance diagnostics, review packs, and corrective-action controls. It turns planning into a traceable management cycle. Finance and strategy teams can use it to govern execution and focus decisions on material exceptions.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Lisbon	Week 33, 2027 16 – 20 August 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Singapore	Week 34, 2027 23 – 27 August 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Berlin	Week 35, 2027 30 August – 3 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Manama	Week 35, 2027 5 – 9 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 37, 2027 13 – 17 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Amman	Week 37, 2027 19 – 23 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Dubai	Week 38, 2027 20 – 24 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Bangkok	Week 38, 2027 26 – 30 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Cairo	Week 39, 2027 27 September – 1 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Phuket	Week 39, 2027 3 – 7 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
London	Week 40, 2027 4 – 8 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Amsterdam	Week 41, 2027 11 – 15 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Madrid	Week 42, 2027 18 – 22 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Kuala Lumpur	Week 43, 2027 25 – 29 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Athens	Week 43, 2027 25 – 29 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,700

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewStrategic Planning and Management Control Course is a one-week advanced course for finance directors, controllers, FP&A leaders, strategy managers, and business-unit finance managers, who leave with a Strategy Execution and Management Control Framework. Participants connect strategic priorities, driver-based resource allocation, responsibility cen…

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Strategic Planning and Management Control Course