Strategic Planning and Facilitation Services
Strategic Planning is the recognised process whereby any organisation sets out to determine its overall process direction, what specific actions must be taken to achieve the desired direction, and how those strategies will get executed. Our approach to strategy facilitation makes provision for the services of a senior management consultant to lead the facilitation of your organisations strategy and assist to document the agreed strategies based on the decisions made during the strategy revision workshop, using the Balanced Scorecard format.
Approach
Our Strategic Facilitation Planning engagements usually involve three phases:
- Pre-work
- Prepare, Scan and analyse the situation and environment
- Envision the Future
- Review the current profile and strategy with the view to identify and agree on any changes
- Scan and revisit the internal and external environment, and undertake a SWOT analysis
- Confirm the main Driving forces
- Confirm the revised strategy
- Articulate enhance strategy and document using Strategy Map and Balanced Scorecard
- Develop Strategic Objectives
- Establish and agree on key strategic objectives, and measurements
- Develop and agree on strategic Initiatives, ownership and deadlines
Leading Strategic Planning Sessions
Our consultants are well equipped and experienced to effectively manage executive group interaction, and are experts in applying facilitation methodology and techniques for executing successful executive group strategy sessions.
Through the methodology we have a consistent set of techniques for:
- Getting management excited about participating right from the beginning
- Keeping the group focused and on track
- Probing with questions to get at critical issues
- Building consensus from diverse views
- Keeping the energy and participation high throughout
- Dealing with dysfunctional behaviour within the group
- Gaining buy-in and commitment for action
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