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Strategic Planning
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the process of making decisions about how to meet the demands, overcome the constraints, take advantage of the opportunities presented by your environment and establish your unique place in history by designing your own future.
At some point in its history, every organization needs to recreate itself to take full advantage of its resources and to position itself to compete successfully. Through a process that involves the board, key administrative staff and others at their appropriate levels, we help you produce a plan with these components:
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bedrock beliefs and core values
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environmental scans
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organizational mission
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comprehensive goals
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strategies
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specific actions tied to achievable timelines
The result: a concise, comprehensive and comprehensible plan that will drive staff actions toward the board's identified performance goals.
We take pride in our clients' end product: a simple, doable and prioritized plan within an efficient period of time!
Our process has been developed by us over an extended time, adapted from top business and education models. We adhere to a process that assigns responsibility where it logically falls: the governing board (and others it chooses to involve) is responsible for developing and adopting the organization's Beliefs, Mission Statement, Goals and Parameters (the"whats"); the CEO and staff are responsible for determining the Strategies and Action Plans (the "hows"). This places the board in the rightful position of determining what the organization is expected to achieve, and the staff in its rightful place of deciding the best means to achieve the goals. This division of responsibility places accountability where it belongs. Obviously, there is full and effective communication between and among all parties to assure buy-in and understanding.
We apply these unique features that we know work:
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focused timelines for achieving each component
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clearly articulated goals with accountability measures
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accountability checks with work teams
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annual update of the plan
We have demystified the strategic planning process. In the final analysis, the plan merely should drive the work of staff toward some common, identified end results or goals, rather than being a burdensome threat or bureaucratic entanglement that becomes its own impediment to improvement.
Costs for strategic planning projects vary based on the size, type and complexity of the organization.
The Aspen Group International, LLC.
A Leadership Development Company
P.O. Box 1777 Castle Rock, CO 80104
303.882.9888 or 303.478.0125 Fax: 208.247.6084
email: aspen@aspengroup.org
Linda J. Dawson, Senior Partner | Dr. Randy Quinn, Senior Partner |
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