Strategic planning

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A little planning goes a long way.

A good strategic plan is simple but effective. It provides the organization with clarity on a few critical questions.

Setting strategy doesn’t need to include reams of numbers or even PowerPoint! It simply represents the set of choices the organization has made about HOW it will win in the marketplace.

Strategy sits at the heart of turning your purpose into reality. Somewhere in between your aspirational vision of providing unique value to the world, and the metrics you pore over at year-end, are a series of actions you take. Strategy is about making them consciously, guided by intentional filters about what you are doing, how you are doing it, and what you AREN’T going to do instead.

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Are you still winging it?

Maybe it doesn’t seem worth the effort. What does “strategy” mean anyway? Isn’t that the most B-S business word of all? However, without a plan, you might suffer from:

  • A long list of initiatives that lead to conflicting priorities across the organization

  • Way too much on everyone’s plate

  • Lack of alignment between long-term vision and everyday actions

  • A glossy document with no way of bringing it to life

  • Your people don’t understand how their work contributes to the big picture

  • No way to know whether what you’re doing is working

Let us guide your journey

We’ll facilitate the thought process, discussions, and choices to help you:

  • Articulate your company’s long-term purpose and values

  • Decide on a set of guiding strategies

  • Establish your process and cadence for pursuing, governing, and evaluating these strategies

  • Deploy your strategies into goals at the company, department, and individual level

Additionally, we can provide training and create structure for:

  • Portfolio governance

  • Establishing metrics and targets

  • Project management

  • Change management

  • Management systems (e.g. cadence, agenda, and visuals for meetings)

Benefits include…

  • People who work for you understand the vision and feel connected to it

  • Work throughout the organization is aligned to pursuing a critical few goals

  • You have a way to monitor progress and adjust course as necessary

  • You have a clear sense of what good likes along multiple timeframes

  • You’ll increase your likelihood of actually achieving your goals

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