The Strategic Facilitator
Aligning Around Vision and Plans
Who are you as an organization?
Where do you want to be?
How will you get there?
Description
The Strategic Facilitator is a highly participative course on how to facilitate a team, business unit, or organization through strategic planning. The process of strategic planning is one of clarifying why you exist as a group or organization, assessing your current situation, describing your desired future state, establishing the strategies that will propel you forward, and determining how you’ll know if you’ve succeeded. (Pre-requisite: See below, under Ideal For)
"Fantastic insights for anyone involved in or explicitly facilitating strategic plans, especially in organizations where there are many stakeholders." - SB, June 2013
"A useful and comprehensive learning opportunity facilitated by highly experienced professionals." --TH, June 2013
Learning Objectives
A competency of strategic leaders is to guide the direction-setting process for their organization or group. You will be able to:
- Understand the full framework of strategic planning, including how to prepare for the journey
- Analyze the anticipated external trends and changes in the external environment scan
- Assess internal strengths, problems, resources and unique core competencies
- Articulate the mission, values and a bold consensus vision of the desired future
- Identify underlying obstacles and barriers and the critical success factors to inform and establish strategy
- Plan for the steps to translate vision into results
- Ensure commitment to clear strategic priorities and deliverables
"Great value and time well spent! The course content was timely and relevant. We worked through very practical applications and methods for how to facilitate an engaging strategic planning process. Everyone in our organization in a leadership role would benefit from this course." – LL
Ideal For:
Meeting leaders seeking to facilitate productive, positive and aligning strategic planning meetings, change initiatives and strategy development, including executives, managers, department and team leaders, internal consultants and change agents. Note: The successful design and facilitation of strategic planning requires a solid understanding of the fundamentals of guiding groups through complex processes. Participants intending to lead strategic planning should either have: 1) completed The Confident Facilitator and The Agile Facilitator, or 2) be able to call upon a resource person with the required competencies to design/facilitate the process on their behalf.
I feel lucky that you were able to come and share your skills and knowledge with us through your in-house courses. The experience helped me see in a tangible way how strong facilitation skills are absolutely essential in any field where you need to work with others (which applies ANY field I can think of)! I already felt and knew through my own experience that such skills are crucial, but I now feel more equipped to share the way I value these skills with my colleagues. WB, Univ. of Calgary In-House Courses
Our Courses
- The Confident Facilitator: Essential Facilitation Skills - Guiding Groups / Effective Meetings more...
- The Confident Facilitator Methods: Applying the Core Facilitation Tools more...
- The Facilitative Instructor: Best Facilitative Practices for Active Learning more...
- The Strategic Facilitator: Aligning Around Shared Vision and Plans more...
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