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Join us on August 15th at 1pm EST/ 10 am PST for a webinar where we will go over the benefits to you and your organization to use a facilitator for your upcoming strategy meeting.
Thanks to your feedback, we've been able to release our latest version of our custom video course that will help you to create a clear and focused strategic plan. By taking this course, you will be able to create a plan that your team can understand, buy in to, and move forward with as a team.
If you're about to start the strategic planning process with your team, it's a great idea to include them from the start. Getting your people involved in the process will help them understand your organization's vision, mission and goals and will increase employee buy-in as well as successful implementation and follow through.
A great place to start is to ask your team some key questions before the planning process:
We've also created a webinar to walk you through the best practices for running a strategic planning session with your team. Whether you're planning on running your strategy session internally, or hiring an outside facilitator, this video is a great place to start!
The strategic planning process are the steps that you go through as an organization to determine:
- the direction of your organization (Vision)
- what you're going to do and for whom (Mission)
- how to measure it and guide your strategy to get to where you want to be (Goals)
In this overview of the strategic planning process, we'll go through the steps that we use to create and implement a strong strategic plan.
For the past two years, I’ve been volunteering coaching third and fourth year business students on how to create winning business strategies, for real companies, in the setting of a Western-Canada wide business case competition. (Sample business cases can be found here)
In preparation for Reveal Business case, management consultant and strategic planning expert, Anthony Taylor, was interviewed to share advice for new business students.
