Muscat, (ONA) The General Directorate of Scouts and Girl Guides organized the fourth workshop entitled “Strategic Planning in Crisis Management” through video conferencing through the Zoom program, presented by Khaled bin Ali Al-Adi, Director of the Electronic Content Department at the Ministry of Education and President of the Omani Tennis Federation. 120 participants from the Sultanate and a number of Arab countries participated in the session, as part of the first video conference forum’s activities under the slogan “Effective leadership and its role in crisis management”.

Yasser bin Mohammed Al-Balushi delivered a speech in which he stressed the importance of the topic covered in the seminar in enhancing the capabilities and skills of the participants in the field of strategic planning and its role in avoiding crises and risks.

Khaled Al-Adi discussed during the workshop several topics, including the definition of strategic planning, and a number of models used in strategic planning. He also touched on the management and dimensions of the strategy, its importance, the characteristics and steps of strategic planning, and strategic diagnosis of the internal and external environment, indicating the importance of planning and strategic thinking in shaping the future. In addition, he touched on the methods of evaluating and reviewing projects in the plans and measuring the arithmetic mean for the time race, and the most important performance diagnostics and decision-making for projects that depend on planning, organizing, directing and controlling. He also touched on the stages of crisis management.