Strategic Planning Facilitation:

Nothing kills organizational growth like not knowing where to go. Even worse than not having a rudder is not having the charts to tell you where you are or your destination. We combine the traditional strategic planning process with a deliberate focus on creative thinking to ensure that you create a deliberately thought out, innovative approach to accomplish your goals rather than the “Plus 10% Plan” where everything is the same as last year but with 10% more. It’s not strategic and it doesn’t position you for real growth through innovation.

We dig into the challenge with the key stakeholders and content experts to deliberately and creatively think through the issues. This ensures that you have new ways of developing your organization’s growth through creative approaches. The result are the essential components of an effective plan: a purpose, desired future state, values, and the strategies and tactics necessary to get you to where you want to go. And — most importantly — the skills and flexibility of thinking to recognize and embrace other opportunities that come along that, while not in the plan, create new opportunities for unexpected growth.

Better considered, more creative strategies to create growth (rather than the “same old, same old”).
Team walks away with alignment on key issues including core purpose, desired future state, organizational values, current reality.
The creation of a tactical work plan and next steps so that everyone in the organization knows what to do in order to achieve growth and goals.
Improved efficiency of meeting and maximized use of participants time & energy.
Facilitated structure to ensure all voices are heard, politics are minimized and all cultures are engaged.
The team members will also gain insights into their problem solving style and how it impacts the team.
Teams learn how to function together more effectively.
Teams emerge far more effective due to skills learned.
Teams have increased capacity to create incredibly valuable work for the organization.

We’ve worked with some of the largest and smallest organizations to help them develop effective and breakthrough strategies in a variety of industries and categories, including fast–food, computer software, consumer products (e.g. food and beverage), medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, financial services, agri–business, human services, and industrial machinery. Some of the companies who’ve sought out our expertise incluce:

Kraft
Cadbury-Adams
Nestle
Johnson & Johnson
Compaq
McDonalds
Disney
Agilent Technologies
Scientific Games
Bath & Body Works
Clorox
Centocor
Novo Nordisk
Novartis
Pfizer
Various state and national government agencies
A wide range of small family held businesses
Not–for–profit organizations of every size and type

Yeah, it’s Frank again. Let’s talk about what this stratetic planning thing is really all about. While for many organizations, it’s a hoop to jump through (“Oh no, time to do plans…again!”), it’s also a critical part of intentionally growing the business. Really! And as much as it’s easy to just do a “search and replace” of this year with next year, and bump up the numbers by 10% to keep the people upstairs happy, that’s not good enough. Okay, it may be good enough to keep them happy upstairs, but that’s not where real growth comes from. And that’s where we come in…to help stretch your and your group’s brains to look at the business in new and exciting ways. To figure out the core essence of what the heck you’re spending your day doing. To find out what your customer really wants and how to get it to them. To explore new ways of making people happy. To search out brave new landscapes and frontiers. To boldly go where no one has gone before. And to try to avoid sounding like a sci-fi movie in the process.