Participatory Strategic Planning

San Antonio: March 8-9, 2010


Price: $645.00

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"Forward march may not be the best way to move toward vision."
Ken Whitney "Building Commitment Into Strategic Plans," Association Management, September 1994

The style required of leaders is changing. There is an undeniable trend toward direct participation and involvement in problem solving, planning and decision making. Organizations are responding by making structural changes that place increasing levels of responsibility in the hands of teams. Managers, supervisors and leaders need the capacity to enable groups to maximize their potential for excellence and productivity.

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
  • Demonstrate how to weave together the basic tools into longer formats and retreat settings


    • This process is unique because it allows you to achieve consensus among participants of diverse cultural, economic and political backgrounds.

    These methods:

  • Create a shared group vision.
  • Identify obstacles to the vision.
  • Focus on new directions.
  • Organize specific action plans.
  • Result in maximum "buy-in".


    • Who Should Take This Course?
    Executives and organizational leaders who depend on others for successful implementation of organization strategies: senior administrators, managers, private consultants, community coordinators, policy analysts, board members, educators, and individuals responsible for design and facilitation of strategic planning efforts in organizations.

    Benefits:

  • Improved communications
  • Expanded responsibility for better results
  • Organizational alignment
  • Immediate implementation
  • Accomplishments exceed expectations