Strategic Planning Facilitation
Your company’s growth depends on a clear
roadmap to success.
Invest
in your company’s future with a successful strategic plan.
“Strategic planning embodies the heart, soul
and hope of the company”
Bonni DiMatteo, President of Atlantic Consultants
At Atlantic Consultants, we know that a clear strategic
plan is the rudder for every company’s journey to success.
Without a solid strategic plan, companies will not attain previously
set goals.
Atlantic Consultants offers strategic planning facilitation that
will develop a clear, practical strategic plan for measurable results
as well as build your strategic planning team effectiveness. Our
consultants will assess where your company is and facilitate a strategic
plan process to reach your company’s annual goals.
After the strategic planning session, Atlantic Consultants offers
follow up coaching services for your leaders to insure that your
departments reach your company goals. Coaching your company’s
leaders insures that your company implements and achieves your strategic
plan into its day to day business practices. Therefore, your strategic
plan becomes successful practices implemented and not just ideas
on a paper.
Resources & More Information
How Strategic Planning
Facilitation Helps Your Company
- Develop a clear and focused strategic plan
- Motivate workers to achieve measurable results
- Clarify your company’s vision, mission, values and goals
- Identify your company’s strength, weaknesses, opportunities
and threats
- Build a feasible action plan for each department and individual
leader
- Create and implement a follow-up action plan to insure success
- Strength the communication and commitment of the strategic planning
team
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Benefits of a Strategic Planning
Facilitator
Prior to the Strategic Planning Retreat:
- Create a focused agenda designed for maximum productivity and
efficiency
- Work with board to clarify vision, mission, values and goals for
the future
- Assign each member homework for upcoming retreat
- Identify Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)
During the Strategic Planning Retreat:
- Keep participants focused and productive
- Insure productive collaboration by facilitating team-building
exercises
- Insure open communication by facilitating exercises
- Mitigate resistance to growth and change amongst participants
- Allow everyone to focus on their assigned roles & goals
- Keep track of time and progress
- Create alignment
Post Retreat:
- Follow up action plan
- Implementation of action plan
- Coach key leaders to achieve individual and departmental goals
- Schedule planned meetings to insure that goals are being met
Benefits:
- Develop a clear, focused strategic plan
- Clarify vision, mission, values and goals of the company
- Identify Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)
- Create and implement a follow-up action plan to insure success
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Strategic Planning Tips
from
104 Tips on How to Ignite and Optimize
Your Business and its Leaders
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- Organize a 2-3 day retreat for Strategic Planning
- Create an agenda
- Assign homework
- Set expectations
- Research the company’s (and each department’s) SWOT
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Opportunities
- Threats
- Define the Company’s
- Mission
- Vision
- Values
- Strategic Goals
- Establish SMART goals that are aligned with your values, vision
and mission:
- Specific
- Measurable
- Achievable
- Relevant
- Timed
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Strategic Planning Testimonials
As founder and Executive Director of Women’s Studies Research Center I would like to recommend Bonni Carson DiMatteo as an expert facilitator who understands the challenges and opportunities of non profit organizations. She is great at designing meetings or retreats that bring together the concerns and hope of the key stakeholders and then helps them create a process to resolve the concerns and leverage the hopes. She helped us create a culture of communication and commitment for the organization’s mission. With her help we were able to collaborate better and to work even more effectively as a board.
Shulamit Reinharz, Ph.D.
Founder and Director
Women’s Studies Research Center
Brandeis University
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with and she devoted a great amount of time in helping us
to prepare for the retreat...helping us to focus on what we
need to achieve at our retreat and how to go about it. We
have made great progress thanks to her help.”
Nancy R. Kolligian
Chair, NAASR Board of Directors
“Bonni [president of Atlantic Consultants] really did
a fabulous job with our group of 30 agency representatives.
She kept us on task, ensured the participation of each member
of the group, and helped each of us to keep our focus on the
goal we wanted to achieve in the meeting. When old tensions
or arguments surfaced and threatened our progress, Bonni found
ways to diffuse the pressure without making anyone feel that
they weren’t heard. The group (again, a hard group to
please!) was unanimous in their appreciation and praise of
her work, and we would definitely call upon her again should
we decide to do a large group retreat or strategic planning
session.”
“I strongly recommend Bonni to you”
Liz O’Connor
President
Strategy Matters, Inc.
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“Atlantic Consultants was excellent
at facilitating the strategic planning process to encourage
ideas, diffuse time-consuming non-productive disagreements,
and moved the group to conclusions... [they were] masters
at encouraging and designing small team breakouts and assignment
and in rotating leadership...always showing preparation, creativity
and enthusiasm.”
Charles H. Sherwood, PhD
President and CEO
Anika Therapeutics
“On behalf of all the men and women of the Boston Police
Department, I want to thank you for the time and effort you
put into Strategic Planning … The spirit of collaboration
and enthusiasm that I saw at the celebration … is representative
of the investment you have made. As Mayor Menino said at the
event, you deserve great recognition as one of the architects,
creating the public safety strategy for your community and
the entire city”
Paul F. Evans
Police Commissioner
1999
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