Academy Box Sets

Take the opportunity to gain accreditation in a specific subject. Our Box Sets are groups of related modules that help you focus your learning. The full box set cost includes your accreditation. To complete accreditation, you need to watch all five modules and send an email to accreditation@theforum.social to describe what you have taken from the modules and how you have applied these in your role.
Each Box Set costs £295 +VAT. (Free to anyone on an Assisted Learning Pathway). Click on the descriptions below to book your place now.

Student takeaways

One of our members from Lifeplus completed the Capacity Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting box set these are the headline takeaways:
- A small impact in your field can have a good effect higher up in the ranks at board level i.e. matching up with a higher strategic objective

- Planning teams need to collaborate with other areas/organisations, engage stakeholders

- Increase Operational effectiveness - As a team, we have vastly increased our communication channels

- Improve and manage the flow of your data cycle and version control

- Long Term: Financial and Budget Planning – Operational: Drives capacity, scenario planning, and risk

- In the middle of a transformation/plan, the challenges are still there, and targets not being met --> this must lead to evolving the approach to capacity and demand

- Improve the quality of the data, focussing on what/why/how, determine what happened to the customer base

- Demonstrating Value and ROI – benefits achieved, costs avoided, risks avoided

Published on 12 April 2020

Box Set: Setting the right targets

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The Modules

The Strategy Pyramid
Before setting targets and goals it is important that these are aligned to strategies that support your organisational goals. In this module;

Understand your organisational goals
See how to balance your strategies
Learn how to align the right metrics and targets to your strategies

Target Typology
How do you avoid your targets being misunderstood, misinterpreted and misused. In this module;

Learn the different target types
Understand tolerances & triggers
Avoid common mistakes

Performance Records, Data Tables, Rigour and Governance
Clear documentation and structure can help us remove single points of failure, avoid arguments, ensure a single version of the truth and avoid duplicated work. In this module;

See how to create a data dictionary to ensure a single version of the truth
Learn techniques to ensure metrics are used to drive the right behaviours
Facilitate exception based reporting with agreed triggers

Benchmarking
Benchmarking is important in understanding best practice, comparing ourselves with our competitors and becoming the best, but there are many pitfalls to avoid. In this module;

Hear the value of benchmarking
Learn how to avoid the common mistakes
Hear our top tips for benchmarking

Delivering value with targets
There is no point setting targets if they don’t deliver value and benefits. In this module;

Learn how good targets can deliver value, benefits and return on investment
See the pros and cons of competitive and collaborate targets
Hear how to avoid targets driving the wrong behaviours

The cost of this mini series including accreditation is great value at £295 + VAT and free for students on our assisted learning pathway.

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