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For organizations
that have outgrown their current organizational structure
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Establishes
appropriate scale of systems for their organization - more modest
than Exxon's - more formal than Joe's Garage.
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Identifies
missing leadership skills and team members.
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Identifies
the brush clearing goals - documentation of procedures and policies,
organizational changes, etc.
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Sets
strategic goals to "clear the brush", positioning organization for
the next major move. (Identifying and implementing the tools needed
to build the tools that are required to get to the next level.)
Use strategic planning to create your future
Strategic planning is creating a vision of the future and
managing toward that expectancy. It's operating under a vision, mission,
strategy umbrella that focuses the organization's effort.
It's an effective process for aligning your short-term decisions
with your long-term goals.
Strategic planning answers the three big questions:
- Where are we today?
- Where do we want to be in the future?
- What
should we be focused on today, in order to make it more
likely we will be where we want to be in the future?
It is a simple process with an incredible power to energize your
organization and bridge the gap between long-term vision and
day-to-day tactics. One way to visualize the process is as a pyramid
with vision forming the stable base and rapidly evolving tactical
action steps at the top.
Strategic planning makes an immediate impact
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It
builds true teamwork
by developing consensus, commitment, and trust.
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It
delivers dramatically higher results
by establishing personal accountability, specific measures and
action steps, a commitment of team members and company
resources, and a stable investment platform.
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It
reduces stress
through a shared vision, mutual trust, and tools for effective
delegation.
Strategic planning
strengthens the leadership team
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It
forces the leadership team to think about the big picture - look
at the business through the eyes of the CEO
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It
helps team members communicate with and listen to one another's
fears, insights, and dreams.
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It
makes everyone focus on what is truly important to the
organization, prioritizing efforts and the use of resources.
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It gets
the team on the same page - a shared visualization of where the
organization wants to be within 5-10-30 years.
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It
results in proactively changing the status quo with an
implementation process that keeps people on schedule, on track,
and regularly held accountable for 30-60-90 day action steps.
Strategic planning
can keep the organization from being overcome by events
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It provides
regular "stakes in the ground" meetings that force the leadership
team to reevaluate where they are relative to where they want to be
and if their action plans are changing status quo quick enough.
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It provides a
quarterly forum for recognizing opportunities/threats and developing
responses with appropriate urgency.
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It provides a
forum for discussions and resolution of issues that don't lend
themselves to operational meetings.
Customer feedback
"The process provides so much more than
just a good plan for the coming year. I have found that the process
energizes the management team and the entire company as the plan is
discussed. It enables me to evaluate the team from a number of
different perspectives, for example, ability to think strategically,
ability to work with each other, ability to communicate complex
ideas effectively, etc. There is no question that Companion is a
better operation because of our participation in this Myrna
process." Mr. Charles M. Potok, President - Companion
Property & Casualty
What's the quickest path to
these benefits?
Since 1991 organizations have discovered
Myrna Associates' strategic planning process - Total Quality
Planning - is the secret path to success. They have found it
to be a powerful and affordable tool for coping with major business
transitions ranging from near bankruptcy to sudden, massive, and
uncontrolled growth.
Our premium strategic planning is
the quickest, most reliable way to implement strategic planning. It
is a proven process, professionally facilitated, with prompt
delivery on the documented plan
If our premium service doesn't meet
your current needs, use our how-to book to implement the process
yourself.
Be proactive and create the future
you'll have to live with
Back in
2004 where did you think you'd be today? Where do you want to be by
2014? Columbus didn't reach the new world by standing on the stern of
the Santa Maria and setting course from its wake.
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