Strategic Directions: Having glimpsed the future and being clear about what is blocking it, a group can then craft strategies that will address the underlying contradictions and move them toward their vision. This workshop brings focus to the work ahead.
Focused Implementation: After taking a look at what final success looks like for each of the strategic directions and clarifying the current reality in relation to each one, a group is able to determine realistic accomplishments for the first year, lay out specific responsibilities and deadlines and create a plan for ensuring implementation. 2 days. (In some locations, an additional day on “Approaches to Environmental Scanning” is an option.)
Skilled facilitators/trainers demonstrate each step of the ToP Strategic Planning process and clarify the rationale behind each step, providing examples from their own facilitation experience. Participants practice the methods during the course.
ToP Strategic Planning is for executives, managers, and others responsible for successful implementation of organizational strategies, as well as board members, educators, consultants, and people responsible for design and facilitation of organizational plans.
Schedule
February 17-19, 2010
Course Cost $725 (note: a $50 discount applies when paid 3 weeks in advance. Some other options available.)
Local Information/registration
Eunice Shankland
ICA Denver
303-248-3372
registrar@icadenver.org
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ToP® 2009 Facilitation Training Series
ToP® Strategic Planning
ToP Facilitation Methods is a prerequisite for this course.
The ToP Strategic Planning process builds on your learning from ToP Facilitation Methods course, showing you how to weave those methods into an integrated approach to strategic planning. The resulting plan is realistic, achievable, and easy to monitor. The five steps of ToP Strategic Planning process are:
Preparation and Design: From the moment a client contacts you, there are opportunities for achieving a successful facilitation that incorporate the clients’ objectives and needs. These include learning what led to the decision to do planning now, who will be involved, and what decisions have already been made or need to be made prior to the event.
Practical Vision: Shared excitement arises when the unarticulated desires, hopes, and dreams for the future are elicited from the group and participants come to a consensus around a practical vision for a specific time frame.
Underlying Contradictions: Before participants trip over obstacles in their rush to the future, they need an in-depth understanding of the blocks and barriers that stand in the way of their vision and what keeps them in place. This step enables a group to talk about their contradictions in a objective way.
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