Strategic Planning
Foresight helps develop strategic plans that are essential management tools; we don’t simply lead cordial meetings that produce meaningless documents that get buried on a website.
The challenge:
Offsite strategic planning sessions are almost always insufficient. Why?
- They risk producing vague, short-term goals that are impossible to measure.
- They tend to produce fanciful notions of what can be accomplished while avoiding contentious issues.
- Time doesn’t permit risk-taking or contemplating something other than the status quo.
- There’s too little time to build genuine buy-in from the board and/or management.
How Foresight helps:
Strategic planning requires making thoughtful bets about the (unknowable) future.
- Create an environment where boards and management teams can have candid discussions about the difficult choices they need to make.
- Take the time to consider many broad perspectives on the organization’s strengths and weaknesses through facilitated sessions, one-on-one interviews, and research.
- Organize and distill results into an impactful strategic plan for the board’s approval.
- Achieve a clear and actionable plan that serves as an essential management tool.