ADVANCED STRATEGIC PLANNING

Purpose: To accelerate the realization of the highest corporate potential by driving strategic thinking and planning to new levels in the management team.

Participants: Direct reports to the CEO and others as appropriate.

Description: Enhanced profitability and market-share penetration via the Institute's uniquely innovative strategy development process drives your competitive advantage, passion, and strategic-thinking level to unprecedented levels. Participants discover the meaning of true strategy and how to avoid the pitfalls of most failed strategic planning events that clients say resulted from hiring consultants who never studied, published, or taught strategy. Institute staff have such experience and uniquely tailor each session with a variety of ancient and modern methods for producing promised results.

Outcomes can include:

1. Higher level of innovative strategic thinking in the executive team
    
2. Removal of dysfunctional barriers that prevented team alignment on direction and implementation
    
3. Deeper awareness of the competitive landscape and threats essential for intuiting a winning strategy
    
4. Passion, commitment, and buy-in toward a mutually-agreed upon compelling vision and plan
    
5. Identification of unique strategic advantages based on insight and intuition, not just analysis
    
6. Focused, tangible, clear strategic goals with deadlines and assigned responsibilities
    
7. Specific action plan for accountable implementation and  follow-through
    
8. Know-how in protecting the company and exposing weaknesses in the competition
    
9. A lean effective process customized for your company
    
10. Deeper understanding of why most strategic planning facilitations fail in the industry and how to avoid them in the future
 

“Results come from replacing seduction with timeless wisdom, challenging outsourced thinking
with the blindingly obvious, and debunking quick-fixes with enlightened accountability.”

Each 3-month program uses methods profiled the following unparalleled methods of implementation:

1. Exclusiv unique front-end advance onsite assessment and coaching
2. Diagnostics and Materials Development
3. Unique Situational Analysis method
4. Customized Cultural-fit Design Process
5. Unrivaled Offsite Experiences
6. Patent-Pending Methods
7. Executive Sponsor debriefing, feedback, and coaching
8. 10-week e-Learning and Accountabilty Enhancement Program
9. Patent Permission for Internal Usage
10. Additional On-site Accountabilty Implementation Support Options Available:
    1. 45-day Results Evolution and Adaptation Program
    2. 90-day On-Site Samurai Accountabilty Sessions
    3. Individual Leadership Coaching Programs

Deliverables:

WORKSHOP

• 1-day customized education experience on how to think strategically, identify top threats, and respond effectively.
• Action Plan
   

RETREAT

A team of 2 or more consultants deliver all the above plus:

• On-site situation assessment
• Personal interviews with participants
• 1-1 coaching
• Customized retreat program design
• Identification of missing elements in previous strategic planning sessions
• 2-day offsite facilitated event
• Map of competitive force structure
• Product/Market segmentation matrix
• Models for strategic intuition tailored for the group based on ancient insights and contemporary research including Mintzberg, Porter, Ohmae, and others
• Primary Saga reflected or validated in a mission, vision, or purpose
• List of Top Critical Success Factors
• Documented Key Strategic Objectives for each Factor
• Implementation plan
• Assigned champions and timelines
• Documented sabotage elements
• CEO debriefing

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