Strategic Planning Consultants Chicago provides a customized planning process to turn your vision into reality.
A strategic planning facilitator guides you and your management team to complete an actionable Strategic Plan in two days. By focusing your strategic planning process only on what is really important, your company or non-profit can be continuously taking action, instead of being left with just another book on the shelf. Our strategic planning implementation process guides people to keep them on schedule, on track, and accountable using 30, 60 and 90-day action steps.
With your CEO, we manage all aspects of the strategic planning process. Your strategic planner consultant initiates all input needed for the process. He or she will also create a productive meeting environment and get your team on the same page -- vision, mission, strategy, and goals.
A week after your meeting, our strategic plan facilitator will deliver your plan and electronic files in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint to each team member. Included are about 50 pages of the plan, discussion notes, input docs, working files, insights gained, highlights of the plan, and photos of retreat sessions.
After a marathon strategic planning session, it is not unusual for the whole plan to simply go dormant. To prevent this we advise you to keep the process alive by using our consultants to provide follow-up support in a launch meeting, and to hold periodic review meetings to ensure forward motion and accountability.
Some clients opt for ongoing support through annual planning meetings to close out the previous year's plan and generate a fresh, updated plan for the current year.
With the pandemic, we shifted our consulting service to online planning meetings. These have proven to be cost and time effective for all concerned, easier and faster to stage, and preferred by many of our regular clients. Of course, onsite strategic planning will resume as needed, too.