Who are strategic planning facilitators and what “job to be done” they fulfill? Organization plans should be done properly, that’s why you need to get a specialist to be more efficient and smart. Strategic planning meetings define the right direction and build your success and sustained growth for years. Read our blog to learn more about strategic planning facilitator!
When considering engaging a business facilitator to conduct a planning session, it helps to anticipate what value the strategic facilitator should bring to the planning meeting. Planning sessions are typically signal events in the life of organizations. There is no room for failure.
You may have decided to undertake a Strategic Planning Process within your Association. Or, you may be about to recommend that your Association develops a multi-year plan. In either case this article may be helpful.
Multi-Year Strategic planning, when it is done right, provides benefits to the organization during the actual planning process. Most importantly, it creates long-term benefits by providing a road map to organizational success.
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Even infrequent golfers experience irritants with public golf courses. This should give owners pause. Why? Because it illustrates problems with their business model.
To demonstrate, we will use the right side of the Business Model canvas, which identifies:
For the past three decades I have been facilitating strategic planning sessions for client organizations. It’s something that I enjoy doing. It is a role that has brought me in front of hundreds of groups of people in North America and Europe. However, I am the first to admit that it isn’t what I do that adds luster to my resume, it’s the people and groups that I have been associated with.
In our facilitation and consulting practice we enable clients to build Strategic Frameworks. These multi-year plans include a Vision Statement, Pillars of Success, Strategic Objectives, Measures and Key Initiatives. It is important to differentiate Strategic Objectives, which are long-term, comprehensive and measurable outcomes, from Measures, which are the subject of this article.
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We have an approach that is neither onerous or time-consuming. It is thoughtful and purposeful. There are three critical steps of Strategic Framework Planning Process.
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In most aspects of life, facilitation starting with the right questions can put us on the road to discovery and ultimate success. Below we will cover facilitator questions for a strategic planning.
There are four things to consider before engaging a facilitator to manage your strategic planning process.
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In our consulting practice we take a team of people through a process to build a strategic plan for their organization. While this is best done in a group situation, it is possible to replicate the steps as a piece of “staff work”.
Here are the six steps to building a strategic plan.