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Strategic Planning:
Achieving Measurable Goals & Outcomes

 

 

 





Successful organizations are able to develop and execute strategies which are consistent with well-conceived and measurable strategic goals. Crossroads Group founder Mark Robledo, with thousands of hours of team facilitation experience, can help guide organizations through a thorough yet affordable strategic planning process which consists of the following elements (contact us for sample reports or for further information).

Pre-Planning Phase (Standard Services):

  • Project Gantt Planning
  • Executive Leadership interviews
  • Executive and UDS data review/analysis
  • Strategic and operational plan review/analysis
  • Metrics review/analysis
  • Board member and leadership team interviews

Pre-Planning Phase (Optional Services):

  • Employee organizational effectiveness surveys
  • Employee satisfaction survey report and comments
  • Client/End-user surveys
  • Focus groups
  • Community Perception Survey/Market Research
  • Internal assessment (SWOT Analysis)
  • External assessment (PEST Analysis)
  • Plan write-up and presentation support

Planning Retreat Facilitation Phase (Standard Services):

  • Strategic planning retreat facilitation
  • Current State Review (results from pre-planning)
  • Goal-setting and prioritization
  • Strategy development
  • Strategic measures development
  • Strategic action planning (ties to operating plan)

Post-Planning Phase:

  • Strategic plan document creation (optional)
  • Plan Implementation Monitoring, Review, and Refinement
  • Operating plan integration
  • Measures review and assessment

The Crossroads Group is unique in combining strategic planning facilitation with the offering of value-added professional survey measurement (of client end-user, board, employee, or community perceptions) as a pre-planning decision-support input. This integration of "stakeholder" perceptions (related to key strategic areas) results in a seamless, timely, effective, and affordable process.

Regardless of where your organization finds itself, The Crossroads Group can facilitate a process which results in much more than a document.

Please contact us for more information and/or references, at no obligation.

For a sample plan (health center example) to assess the quality of our work, please click here (includes action plan). To read a nonprofit organization testimonial click here. For an association/member organization testimonial click here.

Strategic Planning Client Testimonial:

"The approach implemented for strategic planning and employee surveying were thorough, comprehensive, and well-received by our Board and staff. We are presently experiencing measurable benefits from our strategic plan and improved organizational culture from the employee surveying results."
(Health Center Chief Executive Officer, March 2007)