Our Approach to Strategic Planning Consultations

The Results Group's Approach is to:

• Tailor the strategic planning process to the organization's needs and goals. This includes customizing the planning process and tools.

• Recognize that the organization has significant expertise and knowledge. The consultants provide expedient ways to tap that expertise.

• Develop the organization's Strategic Planning capabilities, so that the use of consultants in future years will be eliminated or significantly reduced. To do so, we:

• Utilize the organization's existing knowledge and tools;

• Adapt our methodologies and tools to the organization's needs;

• Ensure that staff understand the planning concepts, methodologies, and tools;

• Work with the organization to adapt the tools and process; and

• Demonstrate the use of the tools and process.

• Produce a strategic plan which is a living document that guides and inspires the organization, not a tome that sits on a shelf.

What we contribute to the planning effort::

• Expertise in strategic planning, including a highly flexible methodology that we tailor to each client's needs, and a variety of tools, exercises, and examples to guide the process.

• Skill in facilitating planning teams and internal processes with management and staff (ranging from individual interviews to input sessions with organizational units, and from small meetings with people from different organizational units to large-scale events involving hundreds of people).

• Proficiency in gathering information and input from external stakeholders (using similar techniques to those listed above, ranging from individual interviews to large-scale stakeholder meetings).

• Objectivity-an independent, outside perspective.

• Experience working with hundreds of organizations in virtually all sectors.

• Specialized Expertise as needed; for example, consultants who specialize in your industry, or in focus areas such as information technology or market research.

• Additional Resources for specific tasks, if needed (for example, conducting research, logistics support, etc.).