Facilitation & Strategic Planning

An effective strategic planning workshop provides an organisation with greater direction, clarity and motivation.

An experienced facilitator enhances the value of team planning days and strategy workshops by encouraging participant buy in and focusing the group on driving meaningful business outcomes.

As a facilitator, Richard helps teams develop their strategic plans and to regularly review their progress in achieving their goals.

Typical questions that Richard helps his clients address in developing their plans include:

• What is our mission and vision?
• What are our values?
• What are our goals and objectives?
• What is our strategy?
• What actions are we going to take?
• Who will be responsible and over what time frame?
• How will we measure progress?

Typical questions that Richard helps his clients address to improve their performance include:

• What's working well that we need to do more of?
• What are the barriers to achieving our goals?
• What actions are we going to take to address our barriers?
• Who will be responsible and over what time frame?

In this short video Richard discusses how to run an effective strategic planning workshop including:

•    the format; how to capture the information in a way that will drive participation, ideas and priorities
•    the importance of reviewing your strategic performance to date; what’s worked well and not so well in achieving your goals and identifying the key learning to take forward; and
•    the importance of workshop preparation

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"Richard offered a cohesive and strategic solution to facilitate the exchange and discussion of ideas and challenges within our business.  We now run workshops for our offices in Australia and UK each year that provide invaluable insight required for management to retain staff, plan solutions to problems, and exchange new ideas for the future."

James Pegum CEO Parrimark Technology

"Richard has been an integral part of our team strategy sessions for the last 2 years. As a gifted facilitator, Richard's ability to keep the group focused on desired outcomes and on solving problems has ensured that our planning sessions are very effective in developing strategy and actions to help achieve our ambitious fundraising targets."

Shanthini Naidoo, Taronga Zoo, Sydney

Contact Richard to discuss your next planning day. Richard will work with you to design and deliver a motivating, relevant and outcome focused session.