Course Objectives

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Target Audience

This course is designed to equip central bankers to meet these challenges. Each day will feature three hours of expert-led Live Content to maximise the opportunity to share and learn. The chair will ensure participants have opportunities to network throughout the course, with time set aside for a workshop on implementing key learnings.

Strategic Planning and Project Management Course Introduction

Course introduction session led by the chair

• Introductions and welcome from the chairperson
• Overview of the training course
• Discussion of the delegate expectations

What challenges and risks do central banks face?

• External pressures facing central banks from policy, operational, governance and financial perspectives
• Steps to improve institutional management
• Obstacles encountered and setting key objectives
• Discussion: risks facing attendees’ home jurisdictions

Operating in a multi-mandate environment: a governor’s perspective

• Overview of central banks evolving mandate in 2022
• Implication for external responsibilities and internal functioning
• Impacts of the evolving mandates and what this means for the central bank
• Discussion: experiences from participants’ home jurisdictions

Towards sustainability: strategic perspectives on greening central banking

• Understanding the connection between central banking and climate-related risks
• A framework for thinking about climate-related risks and their impact
• Implications for policymaking, operations and governance
• What this means for strategic planning: short, medium and long term

Building organisational resilience: the role of strategic planning

• Key features of organisational resilience as a strategic goal
• Impact of factors such as corporate culture, risk appetite and risk tolerance
• Examples of tools and frameworks for strategic monitoring and continuous assessment
• Role of interdepartmental cooperation and coordination

Strategic planning: how to be agile in an evolving world

• Overview of the ways in which the pandemic has changed the way central banks work
• Developing a more agile strategic plan
• Challenges and opportunities for central banks going forward
• How to measure progress and make an impact

Strategic planning and risk management: the mutual enablers

• Synergies and overlaps between the risk management and strategic planning function
• Emerging opportunities and unavoidable trade-offs
• Examples of methods and tools for systemic coordination and cooperation between the two functions
• Tips for engagement in the planning process: options and choices to address key areas of risk

Making the most of big data and advanced analytics

• State of the art of big data and advanced analytics
• Examples of applications in central banking and supervision
• Overview of opportunities for strategic planning and management
• Implications for resourcing and institutional organisation

Designing the strategic plan: key building blocks, focus areas and performance indicators

• The evolution of strategy planning and management as an internal function
• Key features of the building blocks of strategy design
• Examples of innovative approaches to strategic planning and management
• Indicators and matrixes for continuous assessment of strategic objectives

Interdepartmental coordination: communication in focus

• Key features of effective internal communication
• Trends and dynamics of internal department coordination
• The roles and responsibilities of communication and coordination facilitators
• Examples of innovative methods and frameworks for communication and coordination

Linking strategy to the talent pool

• Macro perspective of how strategy links to talent
• Talent demand and talent supply
• Managing jobs and job fit
• Strategic planning as a job

What’s next for strategic planning?

• Key expectations in relation to the strategic management functions for 2022 and beyond
• Trends and dynamics of roadmaps and frameworks helping to adjust the medium and long term strategy
• Challenges and opportunities for leaders
• Building a strategic plan for 2022

Closing remarks and delegate action plans

Concluding session led by the chair

• Summary of the course
• Discussion of the observed trends and case studies
• Application of learning points in the delegates’ home organisations
• Preparation of action points

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