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Balanced Scorecard Professional Certification
LIVE ONLINE version
The same content as the Balanced Scorecard Boot Camp! Beginning with the basic Nine Step process covered in the Part 1 course and then continuing into the real-life nuances and complications addressed in the Part 2 course, this course covers the entire range of balanced scorecard topics over the course of 10 online sessions. Fully consistent with basic balanced scorecard concepts & terminology developed by Kaplan & Norton, the course covers scorecard development in business, government, and non-profit organizations. Participants get hands-on practice using a simple, step-by-step process for developing a scorecard system on their own. This course combines the material in the entire Balanced Scorecard Professional program a single live online course and meets the course requirements for Balanced Scorecard Professional Certification (exam completion required). Price includes access to the BSP online certification exam. Each session includes 60-90 minutes of webinar-based lecture and 60-90 minutes of small-group facilitated exercises. Different scheduling options are available – once session per week for ten weeks, one session per day for ten days, or two sessions per day for five days.
How to Get Certified
To earn BSP certification, all participants are required to attend all sessions of the program and pass the Balanced Scorecard Professional certification exam. The exam, administered online, has 40 questions (multiple choice or true/false pulled randomly from a larger pool of questions). There is a 75-minute time limit to complete the exam and results are posted immediately. A score of 75% is needed to pass.
What Is the Required Time Commitment?
A total expected number of hours is approximately 38. This includes:
Pre-course reading / orientation requirements: 4 hours
Live online sessions: 30 hours (3 hours per session for 10 sessions)
Offline reading / study: 3 hours (minimal preparation between sessions and before the exam)
Certification Exam: 1 hour
10 Sessions Per Program
Each program will include one 60-90-minute lecture webinar, plus a 60-90-minute small group exercise.
Session Lecture
For the first half of each session, an expert consultant will present content to the entire class. Much like BSI’s other educational webinars, this presentation will intersperse polling questions and other activities and will include a Q&A session at the end.
Session Small Group Exercise
For the second half of each session, delegates will be split into small groups of 4-5. The groups will be tasked with completing a small group exercise via web conference. All exercises will be facilitated by an expert consultant. Participants are required to engage via web camera and microphone.
Reading, Quizzes and Exam
Sessions will be complemented with reading assignments, quizzes (not graded), discussion board dialog, and small-group instructor feedback. Upon completion of the course, participants will be required to take and pass the online BSP Exam to become certified.
Technical Requirements
Live Online programs will be delivered using Zoom. Requirements to attend a Zoom session include:
An internet connection – broadband wired or wireless (3G or 4G/LTE)
Speakers and a microphone – built-in or USB plug-in or wireless Bluetooth
A webcam or HD webcam – built-in or USB plug-in
Or, a HD cam or HD camcorder with video capture card
More details about Zoom’s technical requirements can be found here.
The Value of Online Training
Online BSI courses are minimally discounted compared to our live in-person courses. Just as many Universities have found, the cost related to offering a quality course online are just as high, if not higher, than offering a course in person. Direct interaction with experienced BSI consultants is integral to the quality of all our programs, live or online. BSI consultants facilitate all interactive exercises in addition to the lecture, so each participant will likely see 120-180 minutes of instructor time each week, in addition to discussion board and homework review. The value of the content is the same, only the delivery is designed to meet the needs of those that can’t (or don’t want) to travel or be away from their office for five days.
Balanced Scorecard Strategic Planning Essentials (BSE)
Program Overview
Balanced Scorecard Essentials is a one-day interactive experience designed to help balanced scorecard team members contribute to their organization’s strategic management and performance improvement initiatives. It is based on the award-winning Nine Steps to Success™ framework and thousands of hours of consulting and training experience in strategic planning and management. The emphasis is on shared participant experiences, lessons learned, best practices, applied exercises, reinforcement, and support. Participants will learn from each other and their facilitator and leave with a toolkit of proven resources.
Course Learning Objectives
Basic concepts of the Balanced Scorecard and how it can be used to improve Organization Performance.
The development of an integrated strategic planning and management system based on the Balanced Scorecard using the Institute’s award-winning Balanced Scorecard Nine Steps to Success™ Strategic Planning methodology.
How you can make a more effective contribution to their extended Balanced Scorecard team.
Course Benefits
As a participant, you will benefit by learning how:
- Key concepts of the balanced scorecard work together
- A balanced scorecard can be used to improve organizational performance
- To assist in the development of strategic objectives and performance measures
- To help your team successfully build a balanced scorecard system
- To anticipate challenges and prepare solutions for a more effective implementation
- To engage leaders and employees in the planning process
- Other organizations have used the balanced scorecard for continual improvement
- To summarize all elements of a balanced scorecard
Who should attend?
- CEOs, MDs, Directors, VPs, Board Members
- Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Heads (HODs)
- Senior Management, Managers, and Supervisors tasked with Strategy Execution
- Strategy Executives, Strategic Planning Professionals and Champions
- Strategic HR Executives, HR Managers, Partners and Snr Professionals
- Organization Design, Change, and Performance Management Professionals
Event Pricing
- Online 950 USD
- Face-to-face: 1100 USD
- Group Discount of 10%
We would greatly appreciate it if you were to share this information with any colleagues that would like to be part of this event. If you have queries or concerns, kindly reach out regarding such.
Seats are limited as it is an exclusive regional hybrid event.
Practical Strategy Execution Certification
The Practical Strategy Execution certification program teaches delegates practical tools and techniques for successfully executing strategy. The course program is organized around major management processes that have a direct impact on successful strategy implementation. The course is built around five strategy execution “Imperatives” that we and other experts have found contribute significantly to strategy implementation and performance excellence.
The program also recognizes that creating a high-performance organization is a change initiative, and includes a change management and communication module to help ensure that a performance culture is developed so strategy implementation can take hold and help move the organization to higher levels of accountability and performance.
Using lectures, open ended group discussions, delegate experiences, and tailored exercises, the program identifies tools, techniques, and best practices that course delegates can use in their organization. The capstone of the certification course is a customized action plan – My Strategy Execution Roadmap – that delegates develop in real time as they study, discuss, and complete exercises in each Imperative. The finished Roadmap contains specific steps that can be applied in delegate organizations to improve the likelihood of strategy execution success.
Program Overview
While many leaders, managers, and analysts are comfortable creating a strategic plan for moving their organization forward, many organizations struggle to turn abstract goals and strategies into reality. This program teaches participants how to effectively implement an organization’s strategy by focusing on five strategy execution imperatives. As opposed to a typical strategic planning course that focuses on goal setting, this hands-on course lets delegates work with proven tools, techniques, and interventions needed to turn strategy into action. This course is designed for all organizations and all sectors, regardless of what strategic planning framework has been used to create your plan. The course starts with a short primer on strategic plans, so organizations that do not have a strategic plan can learn how to adopt best practices to develop one and implement it successfully.
Created by the Balanced Scorecard Institute and offered in association with the George Washington University Center of Excellence in Public Leadership, the Practical Strategy Execution Certification program provides participants with the tools they need to improve and execute existing strategic plans. The five authors of the course have over 100 years of combined training and consulting experience in strategy, strategic planning, performance measurement and management, and strategy execution in 50 countries.
Program Details
Sessions include lectures, individual and small group exercises, readings, group discussions, surveys, Q and A’s, visiting expert presentations, real-world examples of successful strategy implementations, and a delegate project tailored to their organization.
Session Lecture
An expert consultant will present content to the entire class. Much like BSI’s other educational webinars, this presentation will intersperse polling questions and other activities and will include a Q&A session at the end.
Session Small Group Exercise
Delegates will be split into small groups and will be tasked with completing a small group exercise via web conference. All exercises will be facilitated by an expert consultant. Participants are required to engage via web camera and microphone.
Reading, Quizzes and Exam
Sessions will be complemented with reading assignments, quizzes (not graded), discussion board dialog, and small-group instructor feedback. Upon completion of the course, participants may take and pass the online Strategy Execution Certification Exam to become certified.
Course Benefits
Participants will:
- Apply strategy execution tools and solutions for overcoming issues and challenges related to strategy execution in their organizations
- Understand how five imperatives that are critical to successful strategy execution can be incorporated into your strategy implementation efforts:
- Leadership and Governance
- Creating a Performance Culture
- Aligning and Operationalizing Strategy
- Project/Portfolio Management
- Performance Analysis, Reporting and Informing
- Understand how five imperatives that are critical to successful strategy execution can be incorporated into your strategy implementation efforts:
- Learn how to test an existing strategic plan for implementation success, and incorporate agility and innovation to make strategy implementation easier and more successful
- Understand how important clear communications and change management are to achieving successful strategy execution and creating a more high-performance organization
- Create a customized My Strategy Execution Roadmap for your organization
Who Should Attend?
This course is recommended for managers, planners, analysts, and others who are charged with implementing plans and delivering results. The course is highly recommended for members of Executive and Senior Management teams, Program and Policy Analysts, Project Managers, and strategy professionals, and performance management teams. The course is also ideal for any business professional who wants to keep abreast of the latest thinking in strategic planning, alignment, strategic program and project management, performance measurement, and strategy execution. Organizations will benefit the most by sending teams to the course who are seeking the best practical ideas for successful strategy implementation in their organizations.
Business and support unit employees will benefit from seeing how strategy is aligned from enterprise level to their level and how plans are implemented to produce results. Enterprise-wide leaders and managers will benefit from learning how to successfully implement the strategy execution imperatives at all organization levels.
The Value of Online Training
Online BSI courses are minimally discounted compared to our live in-person courses. Just as many Universities have found, the cost related to offering a quality course online are just as high, if not higher, than offering a course in person. Direct interaction with experienced BSI consultants is integral to the quality of all our programs, live or online. BSI consultants facilitate all interactive exercises in addition to the lecture, so each participant will likely see 120-180 minutes of instructor time each week, in addition to discussion board and homework review. The value of the content is the same, only the delivery is designed to meet the needs of those that can’t (or don’t want) to travel or be away from their office for five days.
