Strategic Planning
Fear and discomfort are an essential part of strategy. If you are entirely comfortable with your strategy, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very efficient. You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive to uncover innovation and create clarity. True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.
Strategic Planning Is Dead.
85% of leadership spends less than one hour each month on strategy. 50% spend no time at all. Our approach is different.
An Integrated Approach to Strategic Planning.
We do not use S.W.O.T. analysis or traditional vision, mission, values work. We do not confuse the execution of a plan with strategy. We align individual insights into a focused and streamlined strategy that is inspired and executable. Our goal in Strategic Planning is to facilitate consensus and articulate a collective end-result.
Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry involves the art and practice of asking questions to apprehend, anticipate and heighten positive potential. The practice focuses on the speed of imagination and innovation. It is forward-focused and employs discovery, design, and possibility.
Responsive vs Reactive
When you are reactive you are not expecting change, and stressed when it happens. When you are responsive, you are expecting the change and eagerly await it. A responsive growth strategy combines a long-term business strategy with the embedded expectation of the many small opportunities that will occur along the way. It is the model best suited for sustained innovation and growth in our current age.
Creative Thinking at All Levels
Agile planning process: shorter than three years, and strategies can be revised as necessary without being tied to any annual cycle. Innovation emerges from cross-functional teams composed of employees at all levels, who are empowered and provide a reality check on what is needed at the working level.