Strategic Planning

Reality Check
Organizations usually have some vision of what their desired state looks like. What they do not always have is a clear plan of how to achieve their desired state.

Culture Assessment

What are the values, morals and beliefs that bind together the employees of an organization or drive different departments apart? These beliefs are often the bedrock of your current business practices, even when you don’t mean them to be. Efforts to change organizations often falter because leaders’ perceptions of the culture are often different from the culture as perceived by most employees. It is important to either work with the culture in making those changes, or in targeting very specific aspects of a culture to work around or modify in the change process. Ultimately, it is vital to ensure buy-in from employees at all levels in the organization. Failing to establish a shared mission and vision can significantly impact the change process.

Planning

We assist our client in developing an organizational template of the key characteristics that will enhance or deter the change management process. We use a combination of individual interviews of leaders, organization wide surveys and targeted focus groups to gather the most pertinent data about the organization. The assessment results are then used to perform a gap analysis of where the organization is and where it wants to be. Once leadership has a realistic picture of the priority issues to be addressed, we work with them to create a road map of the change process.

SWOT Analysis

Through the use of a SWOT analysis, we are able to identify the aspects of the organization that may impact its efforts to achieve its strategic goals. We then help leaders create a plan for either changing or working with aspects of the culture to effect the desired changes. Depending upon our agreed upon level of involvement, we help the client implement changes as specified in the strategic plan, and monitor progress made toward obtaining its goals.