Strategic Planning

If you don’t know where you are going, its even harder to get there!

Strategic plans, and the processes around them, must be dynamic, collaborative experiences. If you aren’t feeling energised and enthusiastic about developing or renewing yours, it might be because you’re doing them wrong!? Strategic planning, can be daunting, but it should also be fun! and PAUSE is here to help.

  • Yes, Strategic Plans assist organisations to direct their efforts, effectively allocate resources, align stakeholders along a common and shared vision, and ensure those goals are backed by evidence and sound reasoning.

  • Yes, they are an ongoing process, a live, living experience, not a one-time meeting.

  • Yes, good strategic groundwork and planning are essential.

Did you also know, facilitated within an Organisational Development approach, they not only assist management, and with achieving KPIs, but contribute to job satisfaction, morale, retention, and overall organisational heath, wellbeing, success, and growth.

PAUSE can support you to imagine it

1. Understand the Strategic Planning Process, and the benefits

2. Draft Your Vision (why), Mission/Role (what), and Values/Imperatives (how) Statements

3. Conduct Strategic Analysis- considering the whole, and the parts

4. Set Strategic Direction- identifying solutions

5. Document in depth, and easily accessible versions of your Strategic Plan

We can also support you to action it.

6. Conduct Action Planning

7. Draft Operating Budget

8. Communicate Your Plan more broadly

9. Monitor and Evaluate Your Strategic Plan

10. Evaluate Your Strategic Planning Practices

Very simply put, strategic planning identifies where the organization wants to be at some point in the future and how it is going to get there.

The “strategic” part of this planning process is the continual attention to current changes in the organization and its external environment, and how this affects the future of the organisation.

Skills in strategic planning are critical to the long-term success of your organisation.