Strategic Planning the Genuine Contact Way Jan & Feb 2025 Online

Strategic planning has become a necessity in organizations that wish to keep up with the ever changing business and consumer patterns. It has become apparent that plans need to be flexible and implementable quickly. However, there are some inherent challenges that emerge with strategic planning. Some of the issues that crop up are:

The approach has been developed after careful research into what makes strategy implementation successful and what factors cause it to fail. Leaders, organization heads and managers with extensive experience were roped in to be part of the study.

About this training

This approach avoids common mistakes in the strategic planning process.

Common mistakes lead to “strategic planning exhaustion”; the futility associated with strategic plan implementation; the challenge of creating buy-in to a strategic plan; rigidity in the plan that doesn’t take a changing environment into account; and the most common mistake of having people feel as though they are doing their jobs plus having to work on the strategic plan implementation.

Strategic planning the Genuine Contact Way is rooted in what works. This approach:

Keeps strategic plan implementation at the core of the strategic planning process rather than limiting the work to just creating a strategic plan
Engages people without leaving them exhausted
Involves people throughout the organization, developing an understanding of what is in the plan and why, as the plan develops so there is no need to expend energy to get people to buy in to a plan
Opens up for other stakeholders, ranging from suppliers to customers, to get the whole system involved and tap into the wisdom of the whole system
Innovation is built into the plan as an essential part of the functioning of the organization
Monitoring for the purpose of timely adjustment is built in
Periodic strategic plan refresh is built into the planning to keep the plan alive, viable, and relevant to the environment

We keep it simple, with simple tools to handle complexity. We recognize that change is constant and any planning needs to take into account a changing performance environment. We recognize the value of conversations and collective wisdom gathered in participatory meeting processes to come up with the best plans, the best way of closing the gap between potential and results.

Who should take this?

Formal leaders, managers, facilitators, and consultants have clear roles in preparing the organization as a strategy focused organization and leading the strategic planning process. This workshop is ideal for those who are responsible for either leading an organization through strategic planning or designing and facilitating the strategic planning process. It is suitable for newly learning about strategic planning or as a complement to the approach you are already using.

Are you one of them?

Online Learning

We are highly experienced in working online, having done so for the past 15 years. In our online work, we never wanted to settle for mediocre meetings, so we have continuously developed skills and practice of facilitating highly participatory and nourishing meetings online.

That’s why we are excited to be able to offer the workshop online. You will benefit from experiencing the online environment and learn how to facilitate Strategic Planing in person and online.

What will you learn?

Learning in this module is offered through 6 phases of learning, based on the Evolutionary Spiral. One of the multiuse tools that make up the Genuine Contact Toolkit, the Evolutionary Spiral offers a roadmap of your learning and development. Every phase provides the tools and tips for taking your organization through a Strategic Planning process the Genuine Contact Way.

You will begin by establishing working definitions that capture your perceptions of what strategic planning is and is not. You’ll establish your concept of a strategy focused organization or culture, developing clarity about what you need to set up for successful strategic plan implementation. You will be presented with five beliefs for the purpose of considering their implications for your strategic planning efforts within the performance environment of complexity and constant change.

In this phase, you will learn what you’ll need to do to ensure sufficient readiness in an organization for strategic planning. You’ll be guided in developing a readiness checklist complete with actions that you can take towards readiness for the strategic planning.

You will be taken through a series of activities to engage you with the art of strategic planning. You’ll increase your confidence and capacity for leading strategic planning and working with the strategy focused organization. In this phase, you will learn the tools that you will use during construction of your plan. You’ll come to a new understanding of working with the weaving together of people with process with strategic planning technology.

In this phase, you practice taking a group of people through constructing a strategic plan with the tools and tips you have learned. You’ll come through this phase with increased competency in leading an organization through strategic planning. You’ll create a presentation to orient teammates to the way you want to do strategic planning, a presentation that will become part of your own toolkit for your work in the future.

Through role play, you’ll have the opportunity in this phase to explore what is necessary for implementation of a strategic plan, exploring obstacles and opportunities. This phase provides clarity about what needs to be put in place for successful implementation of a strategic plan. You will add a presentation about implementation to your toolkit for your work in the future.

You’ll look at the difference between performance management and monitoring & adjustment. In this phase you will identify what monitoring needs to include and why. If monitoring shows that the implementation of the strategic plan is off course, adjustments will need to be made. You’ll learn what is meant by a strategic plan refresh if the decision is that the plan itself needs adjusting.

Who gives the training?

Anna Caroline Türk Workshop Facilitator is a senior consultant and coach at TruthCircles. She has applied this approch of Strategic Planning since 2012 in German and international organizations and can therefore attest to the power of this approach and tools. Her sweetspot and passion is to blend strategic alignment and implementation with genuine conntections and ongoing leadership development for the people involved.

Rachel Bolton, Workshop Facilitator is a senior consultant and coach with Dalar International Consultancy, Inc. She specializes in and loves to work with Small Businesses, Solo Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups. She has worked with leaders, consultants, and their organizations around the world to develop strategic plans using our Genuine Contact Way processes and brings this wealth of experience into our workshop. Her unique blend of coaching and Genuine Contact training bring high-level insight and practical suggestions to this work.

Terms & conditions

Should the organizer’s need to cancel the event for any reason, you will receive a full refund.

Should you need to cancel your participation we apply the following policy:
Cancellation up to 1 Month prior to the training you will receive a full refund, cancellation up to 2 weeks prior to the training you will receive a 50% refund.

We cannot make refunds for any cancellation made less than two weeks prior to the start date of the training.

In case of emergency we allow you to substitute your participation with someone else. When you secure a replacement, no cancellation fee occurs.

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Dates in January and February 2025 ( seven afternoons from 3-7pm CET)

Prices: There are several price options depending on the type of organization you work for.

Normal Price € 2.190 + 19% VAT – Employed (Corporate/ Public)

Reduced Price € 1.950 + 19% VAT – Small business/small NGOs / Individuals

Early Bird € 500 reduction if you help us find the dates and then register!

Discount:
Get a 10% discount if you sign up as a team of 3 or more people.
Members of the Genuine Contact Organization get a 10% Discount.

The discounts and Early Bird cannot be combined.

Language: The language of the workshop will be English however German can also be used.

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Strategic Planning the Genuine Contact Way Jan & Feb 2025 Online

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Monitoring and Adjustment

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Dates in January and February 2025 ( seven afternoons from 3-7pm CET)

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