Strategic Planning is Catalyst: Moving Organizations Forward

You have a lot of great ideas for your company or department, but they lack continuity. You know you need a strategic plan, but you aren’t sure where to start.

You have a really talented management team, but they need some help in getting creative and thinking beyond where they are today. You want to challenge them, but know they will struggle with pushing back on your ideas.

You know how to plan, but you need someone from outside your team to facilitate so you can participate fully.

Strategic planning is a process used when you are in a large organization, right? Right and wrong. Strategic planning is useful to small, medium, and large organizations.

Planning can take place at any level; the organization, a division, department or team.

Strategic Planning is a continuous, systematic process where people make decisions about the intended future state of the organization, the future outcomes or results, how success in achieving the outcomes or results is measured and evaluated.

The most valuable benefit of organizational planning is not the final strategic plan document. The ultimate benefit is the conversation that takes place in the process of reaching a shared agreement on the organization’s vision/direction.

Lori has worked with executives of corporations and accompanying business units to help them define their core purpose, identify their service offerings, analyze the offerings in relationship to the market, evaluate market forces, and determine the high impact strategies needed to move their organization forward.

Benefits of Having an External Strategic Planning Consultant Work for You

• a skilled professional who will collaborate with you and build a planning process to meet the unique needs of your organization
• someone to guide you through a systematic process designed to understand your external and internal environments, short and long-term needs
• involve the right people who have the vision and passion to move your organization forward
• get more done in less time, and
• create a measurable plan that can be used as your guide for the future

"…your facilitation of our strategy meetings helped the group stay on task. By the end of each meeting we had met our objective. With individuals who are creative and have many ideas it is easy to get off track, you helped the team stay focused and accomplish the outcome we were striving for during each meeting." Kevin Brown, Vice President of Sales, Accent

Contact Lori to learn how she can help you design and facilitate your strategic planning process.