"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently
that which should not be done at all.”
— Peter Drucker
Strategic Planning Retreat & Alignment Program
Business and growth challenges are exposed during our strategic assessment process, enabling leaders to compare, discuss, and align around their strategic priorities with confidence.
Call us for a Complimentary Strategic Planning Retreat Consultation: 281-469-4244
Our strategic planning consultants facilitate strategic planning retreats that foster the entrepreneurial spirit and rekindle the fire of a team inspired.
Through a thorough online assessment process, we facilitate a goal-based, data-driven strategic alignment process 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. Our experienced strategic management consultant then facilitates an intense dialogue to ensure team alignment, clarity, accountability, and prioritization of the strategic 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. Often, an executive team’s hard work to mature their organization extinguishes the very passion and innovative energy required to achieve the goals.
As a company grows, long days and layers of bureaucracy obfuscate everything from communications and processes, to profit models and mission statements.
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 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 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 strategic planning retreats that drive alignment and
help you cascade the buy-in throughout your organization or business unit.
Effective Strategic Management Requires Strategic Alignment. Our Strategic Retreats produce alignment and actionable plans.
Understanding your organization (or business unit's) current stage of growth, how your team views the predictable challenges that all businesses face, 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 strategic planning consultants help you and your team get results.
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 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! This is just one of the many reasons I'm so passionate about our data-driven strategic planning retreats. Our assessment-based strategic planning process creates sufficient clarity, alignment, and momentum to transform your business (or business unit) and advance your organization's profitability.
Anisa Aven, CEO of TurnKey Coaching & Development Solutions, LLC
The 7 Stages of Growth™ Enterprise Development Model helps business owners get ahead of growth issues, actually allows you and your team to predict the impact of growth, and helps leaders understand what they have to do to manage their company and achieve success.
Developed by James Fischer, who founded the Origin Institute, this Strategic Management Assessment & Growth Strategy Model is based on a six-year study of entrepreneurial companies including interviews with over 650 CEOs, 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 strategic planning model?
We are huge fans of James Fischer's 7 Stages of Growth™, and his research, when coupled with the X-ray process, turns the conversation about business challenges into a solution-focused strategy for growth. See if the following resonates with your company or business unit.
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.
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.
Next, we’ll work with your team to select the strategic planning retreat dates, and the assessment launch and completion dates. Then, we manage all communications to announce the program and assign the pre-work and address concerns.
The day or evening before the strategic alignment and planning 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 strategic planning retreat: 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