Four domains that are transformative

1. Consider how this strategic planning will support cultural and team gains:

1. • Would you like it to strengthen staff engagement in strategic thinking?
   • Do you want it to bring your Board and Executive closer together on where you are going and why?
   • Do you want to strengthen your Leadership Team’s ability to use business insight in their thinking and to become more cohesive as a leadership team? Strategic planning is a once in a cycle opportunity to do accelerate engagement, cohesion and skill building.
2. Ask yourself whether you are all on the same page about your Theory of Change. Great strategic planning starts here, and builds on firm foundations of a concise, up to date and accessible theory of change narrative. This flows quickly and seamlessly into strategic planning.
3. Ensure your planning attends equally to the impact your organisation will achieve externally as much as the enabling environment required inside the organisation. Strategy requires both organisational development expertise as well as strategic strength. This ensures you end up with a plan that charts how you’re ‘building your plane’, as well as where you’re flying to.
4. Check your strategic planning doesn’t stop with a concise and insightful plan on a page. Planning needs to move you from the plan, to a clear pathway and tools for reporting to the Board and tracking execution from staff to the Leadership Team. Clarity in how you will track execution, focus on the key conversations over the period of the plan, and communicate the progress in real time, converts the effort you’ve taken to get a concise plan on a page, into a strategically cohesive organisation.

If you’re thinking about your next strategic planning cycle and are interested in a strategy facilitator that will bring the whole picture together, we’re here to help.