Moving Groups to Action

Participatory Strategic Planning

This training will teach you how to facilitate a complete strategic planning process from vision to implementation

Benefits:
•    Improved communications
•    Expanded responsibility for better results
•    Organization alignment
•    Immediate implementation
•    Accomplishments exceed expectations

Participatory Strategic Planning presents a structured planning process which incorporates the workshop method for building consensus, the discussion method for effective group communication and an implementation planning process for turning ideas into productive action and concrete accomplishments.

• Enhance your capacity for creative strategy building
• Enable a group to come to a common vision and create a
  "participant-owned" plan that deals with the realities blocking the group
• Experience and practice the complete strategic planning process of
  vision, contradictions, strategic directions, and implementation
• Discover how to weave together the basic tools into longer formats
  and retreat settings
• Recognize and honor the contributions of all participants
• Pool individual contributions into larger, more informative and inclusive patterns
• Capture, organize and harness more data in less time
• Use diversity as an asset while minimizing polarization and conflict

Who Should Take this Course?

Executives and organizational leaders who depend on others for successful implementation of the organizations strategies: Senior administrators, managers, private consultants, community coordinators, policy analysts, board members, educators and individuals responsible for the design and facilitation of strategic planning efforts in organizations.

Prerequisite: Group Facilitation Methods