Creating a Strategic Plan that Addresses Your Organization’s Most Critical Issues
There is a proactive approach – the Action Research Strategic Planning Process - that allows teams to react to and address
organizational issues, changes and challenges while generating the necessary
buy-in and follow through. The Action Research Strategic Planning Process is a
planned series of process steps that:
• Obtains from the team their
action/improvement-oriented proposals regarding the priority issues
• Facilitates with that team the development of organizational change
management strategies to improve its performance by understanding, discussing,
developing and implementing a strategic action plan that addresses the team’s
priority issues
The objectives of the Action Research
Strategic Planning Process are to:
• Provide the team a forum for voicing the
organizational issues of greatest concern to them as well as their proposals
for addressing those issues
• Take advantage of the team’s perceptions, experiences, and insight in order
to enhance the organizational performance relative to its critical issues
• Improve the working relationships between the team members who “must work
together” in order to implement the plan
The benefits to using the Action Research
Strategic Planning Process are:
• The issues addressed are ‘real world’,
current and of the highest priority to the team – versus ‘top of mind’
reactions during meetings
• Everyone has an equal voice in the process throughout each step which creates
maximum buy-in, participation, ownership and follow through
• There is maximum candor through confidentiality because names are never
associated with any of the participants’ responses
• The process takes advantage of participants’ experience, knowledge and
suggestions - the people who know better than anyone else - what should and
needs to be done
• The process saves meeting time by being able to immediately display and begin
discussing the team’s prior best thinking
• The process results in action steps with accountabilities and timelines for
addressing the critical organizational issues - that have a ‘life’ after the
planning meeting
WHY
SHOULD YOU ATTEND
Organization are sometimes challenged with
having the agility to respond rapidly and effectively to their key business
issues. Many formerly very successful organizations lacked agility – do you
remember: A&P, Blockbuster, Circuit City, Borders, Ringling Brothers and
Toys R Us?
The larger an organization the greater its
talent base and capabilities – but as the number of participants increases
communication and problem resolution become more challenging. Lacking is not the
talent but a means of tapping into the knowledge, skills and experience of that
talent – in a manner
that generates their buy-in.
AREAS
COVERED
The Action Research Strategic Planning Process
is a purposeful, planned series of steps that:
• obtains from a team their input relative to
their critical issues
• then facilitates with that team the development of a strategic plan to
improve its performance by discussing, understanding, and acting upon those
critical issues
Action Research Strategic Planning Process
Methodology:
Step #1. The participating members of the team
receive an introductory email and an open-ended request for them to submit
their issues of greatest concern/importance relative to the team’s performance
Step #2. A questionnaire is developed which
seeks/probes for action oriented, suggestions for improvement - relative to the
previously identified critical issues
Step #3. Individual, confidential interviews
are conducted with each participant obtaining their proposed improvement
steps/initiatives related to each of the critical issues
Step #4. The interview responses are compiled,
collated and built into a power point presentation
Step #5. A planning meeting[s] is conducted
allowing the team to:
• review and discuss their responses to each
question
• develop an action/improvement plan with champions, accountabilities and due
dates for each improvement initiative
During the planning meeting[s] the
participants are encouraged to:
• be involved and take advantage of the
opportunity
• be candid yet remain open minded to the opinions of others
• maintain an action orientation – recommend solutions versus voicing
complaints
• assist in the development of a practical and focused strategic plan
Step #6. The key comments, action plan steps,
champions, accountabilities, and due dates as developed during the planning
meeting[s] are captured and submitted to the participants allowing them to
follow through on ‘their’ strategic plan.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
The Action Research Strategic Planning Process
is effective in a variety of situations:
• Team building
• Change management process and organizational transitions
• Conflict resolution strategies
• Customer service improvement ideas
• Organization or function strategic planning
• Customer advisory boards
This webinar will walk through each of the
steps in utilizing this practical and effective Strategic Planning Process for
improving organizational performance.
WHO
WILL BENEFIT
Anyone with supervisory, managerial and/or
leadership responsibility
SPEAKER
Pete Tosh is Founder of The Focus Group, a
management consulting and training firm that assists organizations in
sustaining profitable growth through four core disciplines:
- Implementing Strategic HR Initiatives
- Maximizing Leadership Effectiveness
- Strategic Planning
- Enhancing Customer Loyalty
The Focus Group has provided these consulting
and training services to manufacturing and service organizations across the
U.S., Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Pete has worked closely with the
leadership teams of organizations such as Exxon, Brinks, EMC, State Farm,
Marriott, N.C.I. and Freddie Mac.
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