Facilitation for Strategic Planning

Success in today’s business environment requires that a company’s leaders have the ability to create a vision of the organization’s future direction and the capacity to get there.

The Performance Group facilitator can lead your team along a logical path that will allow you to discover and communicate your own unique vision of the future and take the steps necessary to turn that vision into reality.

Strategic planning sessions generally range from a half-day to two-day workshops. They are goal-oriented sessions that are based as much as possible on using existing processes, business plans and unit plans from the organization. The intent is not to recreate the wheel, but to build on what’s already there.

The first step is to discuss the group’s mission, vision and/or purpose.

The facilitator then walks participants through an environmental scan, where strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats within and outside the group are identified. This allows them to identify gaps, challenges and weaknesses and to build scenarios about what could happen with stakeholders and clients.

Strategic planning can be broad in scope, with a greater emphasis on external factors, or smaller in scope with a greater internal emphasis.

By the end of the session(s), the Performance Group facilitator will help you determine the biggest bang for your buck and set priorities with accompanying action plans for their achievement.