Strategic Planning Sessions

Facilitated Strategic Planning Sessions

Strategic Planning is a comprehensive process for determining what a business should become and how it can best achieve that goal. It appraises the full potential of a business and explicitly links the business’s objectives to the actions and resources required to achieve them. Strategic Planning offers a systematic process to ask and answer the most critical questions confronting a management team—especially large, irrevocable resource commitment decisions.

The strategic planning process can be one of the most exciting times for any organization. New vision statements are created and the entire organization might feel a sense of new energy and excitement about the future direction of the organization. Leadership and staff are mobilized to achieve the key goals and actions identified in the report. Senior management has a great sense of relief that all major strategic issues have been addressed and a plan of action has been developed for implementation. Everyone seems to have enjoyed their involvement in the process and, they are motivated to become more engaged to move the mission forward.

However, after a few months of high energy the results and successes that everyone hoped for are not always achieved. The excitement often diminishes and everyday organizational life and day-to-day challenges are front and center. Despite the deep commitment to your mission and the determination to succeed, many organizations’ managers fail to achieve the goals identified in the strategic plan. Significant investments in time and resources have gone into developing the strategic plan, but far too often, the report ends up sitting on some executive’s shelf collecting dust.

Developing the most creative and visionary strategic plan is useless unless it is fully executed and becomes reality. The #1 cause of business failure is bad strategy. Regardless of goals, there’s one thing that can be said about all strategic planning processes: the stakes are high. So you need to prepare. How to get the right people —and get them to actively contribute? How to prevent high-powered personalities from taking the session off-track? How to make sure your goals are effectively defined and that you have all the right elements in place? We can help you and your organization learn the tools and techniques to efficiently prepare and conduct a productive, results-driven strategic planning and assessment process that produces real results.

Strategic planning is a critical factor contributing to the success of any organization. We can assist your organization in the development, execution, and assessment of a strategic plan that will better help you align goals, approaches, available resources, and operational tools and processes in order to be more successful in achieving your missions. Each facilitated session, most effectively scheduled at an off-site location, typically takes 1-2 days and is customized for the unique conditions of each client organization.