Your Strategic Plan Is Too Important to Leave the Process to Chance.

Strategic planning is one of the most consequential processes a leadership team undertakes. The decisions made can shape where the organization invests, which priorities move forward, how resources are allocated, and what teams will be expected to accomplish for years to come... Yet the planning process itself is often treated as the *easy *part.

Gather the leadership team. Schedule an offsite. Build an agenda. Have the conversation.

That's where the risk begins.

Without the right structure, stakeholder involvement, facilitation, and follow-through, even highly capable leadership teams can leave strategic planning with unclear priorities, limited buy-in, competing interpretations, or a plan that never translates into meaningful action.

Join Diana Gurwicz, Certified Master Facilitator®, for a practical look at how organizations can reduce the risks that undermine strategic planning and build a process designed to produce alignment, ownership, and execution.

Using Leadership Strategies' proven strategic planning approach and Drivers Model, Diana will walk through the critical components of a well-designed planning process—and the decisions leaders should make before bringing everyone into the room.

What You'll Learn

In this session, you'll discover:

✓ Where strategic planning processes are most vulnerable to breaking down—and how to reduce those risks before the session begins

✓ How to establish a clear planning framework that moves from current situation and vision to strategic priorities and execution

✓ Why involving the right stakeholders at the right stages can dramatically affect alignment and commitment

✓ How to surface different perspectives and difficult strategic issues without allowing the planning process to become unproductive

✓ How to distinguish between goals, objectives, strategies, and action plans so the final plan provides clear direction

✓ Why prioritization, ownership, resources, and accountability must be built into the process—not added after the planning session

✓ How structured monitoring helps keep strategy active as conditions, priorities, and organizational needs change

✓ When an internal planning process may be sufficient—and when a neutral strategic planning facilitator can help reduce risk and improve outcomes

Who Should Attend

This webinar is ideal for:

• CEOs, presidents, and executive leadership teams
• Chiefs of Staff and leaders responsible for coordinating strategic planning
• Business unit and department leaders
• Strategy and transformation leaders
• HR and Organizational Development executives
• Board and association leaders
• Organizations preparing for an upcoming strategic planning session or leadership retreat
• Leaders evaluating whether to facilitate strategic planning internally or engage an outside facilitator

Planning an important strategy session?

You'll also learn when internal facilitation may be sufficient—and when bringing in a neutral strategic planning facilitator can help reduce risk, strengthen alignment, and improve the quality of the decisions your leadership team makes.

Don't just reduce the risk of a bad planning meeting. Reduce the risk of building a strategic plan your organization can't execute!