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During the duration of the pandemic and through the economic recovery period, our crisis management and strategic planning programs are expenses plus NYOP* (Name Your Own Price.) We are here to serve and make a difference. *On a first come, first serve basis.
Crisis Strategy Facilitation & Alignment Program
Business and growth challenges are exposed during our strategic assessment process, enabling leaders to compare, discuss, and align around the recovery plans and the strategic priorities with confidence.
Call us for a Complimentary Crisis Management & Strategic Planning Consultation: 281-469-4244
Our crisis management and strategic planning consultants facilitate alignment, foster a team's entrepreneurial spirit and rekindle the fire of a team inspired.
Through key stakeholder interviews and thorough online assessment process, we facilitate a goal-based, data-driven crisis management and strategic alignment process. We use data that compares your organization (or business unit) and the collective perspective of your leadership team against what productive and successful companies (or divisions) do at a similar stage of development or similar stage of crisis. Our experienced strategic management consultants facilitate an intense dialogue to ensure team alignment, clarity, accountability, and prioritization of the strategic, recovery goals.
A CEO or division executive’s business challenge is always about driving growth while maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit that made the business a worthwhile pursuit in the first place. Unfortunately, during times of economic instability and crisis, past industry expertise is not enough to navigate the wake of destruction left by the crisis.
As a company recovers, long days, confusion, irrationality, and layers of bureaucracy obfuscate everything from communications and processes, to profit models and human capital needs.
As your team listens to organizational whispers and their business intuition, stagnation and misalignment become the apparent enemy. Unfortunately, slaying stagnation is not as simple as a market opportunity pie-chart.
The goal is twofold. First, identify a compelling recovery strategy that is so inspiring it fosters a culture where innovation, agility, vision, and an entrepreneurial spirit inspires leaders and employees to drive for results together.
Second, engage in deep conversations and productive conflict so extraordinarily liberating that it forces the kind of alignment and commitment required for massive buy-in and, thus, breakthrough business restoration and innovative growth.
The Problem:
When the business climate demands change, it is often met with fatal resistance.
The Solution:
Strategic Clarity. Alignment. Commitment. Accountability.
We facilitate crisis management strategic planning sessions that drive alignment and
help you cascade the buy-in throughout your organization or business unit.
Effective Crisis Management and Business Recovery Requires Strategic Alignment.
Our Facilitated Process produce alignment and actionable plans.
Understanding your organization (or business unit's) current stage of crisis, how your team views the predictable challenges that your business faces, and aligning the team around the top priorities results in critical alignment and clarity about the way forward. Through facilitated communications and data-analysis, our crisis and strategic management consultants help you and your team gain clarity and an actionable plan for moving forward.
Strategic Growth Process
Our strategic planning process supports your organization (for-profits/nonprofits and business units) with an objective, data-driven strategic business planning retreat that facilitates clarity, alignment, commitment, and confidence. Your team is then enabled to focus on the right priorities in the proper order to ensure an effective recovery plan and successful growth.
As a serial entrepreneur, I've had to become a business growth expert. I understand the need for strategic management. I've experienced firsthand as well as witnessed the heartbreaking failure of really talented CEOs and brilliant leaders, due to a lack of strategic foresight and team alignment. Failure sucks - but, the study of failure is the magic formula for success. Similarly, the study of how revolutionary businesses emerge out of times of crisis. is the secret sauce of turning tribulations into triumphs. Our data and stakeholder-driven approach creates clarity, alignment, confidence, and momentum to transform your business (or business unit), even in the most difficult of times.
Anisa Aven, CEO of TurnKey Coaching &
Development Solutions, LLC
The 7 Stages of Growth™ Enterprise Development Model helps business owners get ahead of crisis and growth issues, and actually allows you and your team to predict the impact of change, and helps leaders understand what they have to do to manage their company and achieve success.
The original growth model, developed by James Fischer founder of the Origin Institute, is a Strategic Management Assessment & Growth Strategy Model based on a six-year study of entrepreneurial companies including interviews with over 650 CEOs. The work sought to understand and decipher the patterns, behaviors, and characteristics of growth or failure in entrepreneurial enterprises and business units.
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© Copyright 2006 James Fischer: The 7 Stages of Growth™ Matrix and the 7 Stages of Growth™ Enterprise Development Model. TurnKey Coaching & Development Solutions, LLC is an authorized Growth Curve Specialist and is licensed to deliver The Stages of Growth X-Ray™ program. The Stages of Growth X-Ray™ program is a registered trademark and © Copyright of FlashPoint! LLC, Laurie Taylor 2010.
So, what is our crisis management and strategic planning approach?
We turn the conversation about business challenges into a solution-focused strategy for recovery and growth. A crisis will change the very core of an organization. Thus, in addition to identifying the recovery plan and the crisis-induced "stop-gaps," successful organizations rally the team to seize opportunities birthed out of the crisis pressure.
Important Note: When we use the word "company" we also mean for-profit businesses or business units as well as non-profit and not-for-profit organizations. When we use the word "CEO" we are referring to the leader of the business, the executive director of the non-profit or the VP/Managing Director of the business unit.
Every organization or business unit, will traverse through multiple stages of recovery and growth. When an executive team understands the roadmap, they can effectively devise a way forward. The framework, outline below, makes our crisis managmeent and strategic planning process rich and instantly meaningful for organizations.
Stage 1: Start Up
Stage 2: Ramp Up
Stage 3: Delegation
Stage 4: Professional
Stage 5: Integration
Stage 6: Strategic
Stage 7: Visionary
The Strategic Leadership Planning Agenda:
First, we meet stakeholders to lay the groundwork for the intense work we are about to do. A few pre-launch alignment meetings help us gain rapport and an understanding of the engagement goals and concerns. We will review the purpose, process, and outcomes of the program. We will also seek to provide context for the facilitated session, including the fact that our role is to challenge assumptions and become masters of curiosity. We will engage in exercises that are designed to understand your organizational challenges. For some leaders, this is uncomfortable, and while there may be a concern that this could become a grievance session, we will not let this happen. Instead, we mediate the process to gain value in moving through difficult discussions to produce greater alignment.
The day or evening before the crisis strategy and strategic alignment session, we will meet with the CEO, Executive Director, or Business Unit leader to review the results from the assessments. This pre-session meeting further explains the process and informs the leader of the results, as well as illustrates the reports tabulation. Together we will complete a summary and gather last-minute, critical information about the current status and how the leader sees the team and goals today.
The big day - the crisis and strategic alignment session: Our role is to facilitate clarity and foster alignment. We will mediate differences and encourage each team member to share their perspectives. We value insightful disagreement, and we will help the team to focus on the dialogue vs. the “score.”
The outcome of the Strategic Growth X-Ray and strategic planning process will be clarity regarding the issues and the most important initiatives required to meet the strategic goals.
Call us now for a free consultation and find out if your company could benefit from working with our strategic management consultants.
What makes us the Strategic Planning and Strategic Alignment Experts?
TurnKey Coaching & Development Solutions (founded in 2004), has experienced management consultants, executive coaches and master trainers in every major metropolitan area in the USA and key hubs globally.
Through a single-point-of-contact, we provide full-service, LSO (learning services outsourcing) and make your employee development goals easier to obtain. From instructional design to implementing best-practices, to recommending strategic revisions, our clients tell us that we take the pain out of managing employee development programs. Our “turnkey” processes and objective oversight eliminate initiative overload and help your team to refocus on the business of the business instead of managing vendors.
Our on-site/off-site employee development programs are tailored enough to be relevant and meaningful to your industry while leveraging our off-the-shelf curriculum for an affordable and effective solution. We employ adult-learning best-practices and our proven curriculum, coupled with key-stakeholder interviews, your strategic goals, and industry research, for a unique and practical training and development program.
Our Services:
- Level & budget appropriate Coaching Programs including executive, mid-level, global leadership, HiPos, and Performance Improvement programs
- Training Programs: 400+ topics
- High-Potential Development Programs: Including Comprehensive Leadership University and Succession Planning components
- Assessments: Psychometric Assessments, 360 feedback (qualitative and quantitative) and Hiring Assessments
- Engagement, HR & Culture Surveys such as the Leadership Circle Culture Survey
- Strategic Planning Consulting & Retreats: data-driven strategic analysis and planning programs
- Organizational Development Consulting Services
- Capstone Projects: business strategy simulations and business simulation competition