Our Simplified Strategic Planning Program is a multi-workshop series that teaches participants an effective strategic planning process while at the same time creating a clear, compelling strategic plan for their organization. Participants will:

• Set direction through clear articulation of Vision, Mission, and Strategic Filters
• Define their organization’s current and desired future state
• Clearly articulate the organization’s core competencies
• Define a prioritized set of Strategic Filters to evaluate strategic initiatives
• Inventory, evaluate, prioritize, and sequence initiatives to support their strategy
• Allocate resources to initiatives based on priority and need
• Package their work into a compelling strategic plan

The program consists of a combination of out-of-class work combined with a series of workshops (typically three sessions) and targeted out-of-class coaching.  The program is pragmatic in that participants learn the strategic planning method while simultaneously applying it to their real-world business need.

The target audience for this course is the leadership team of a business, business unit, or organization.  Putting an existing leadership team through this program enhances both their strategic planning skills as well as the quality of their actual strategic plan. The benefits of this course are:

• The leadership team having a strategic planning process they can replicate each year thereby making their plans more compelling and rigorous with less effort than ad hoc planning efforts
• An efficient means of gathering and processing key inputs for strategic planning
• Better strategic alignment, prioritization, and resource allocation
• Clarity and focus which eliminates low value initiatives and drives critical ones

Watch an introduction to our strategic planning process in the below video. You can also take an online eLearning version of the course by clicking HERE.