The Boons Of A Strategic Planning Workshop Facilitation

By Jessica Cole


All organization have some sort of objective, or else their activities and operations will be good for naught. These objectives are not usually adhered to. Indeed some companies go off the tangent or meander to another channel from time to time. This no doubt takes up considerable strength and valuable time. To preclude those things from happening again, organization usually take part in strategic planning workshop facilitation.

When a company or organization is losing sight of its goals, they usually arrange a meeting of sorts, which is very much synonymous to a workshop. In this regard, facilitation will work to ensure that the steps taken are effective and easily achievable. When orchestrated properly, all plans and aims will undoubtedly be a cinch.

Planning in an organization, or virtually every group with an objective, involves the refocusing of its targets. The constituents will have to reevaluate whether their plans are feasible and viable. Following that they would have to look at their so called SWOT. That is, their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

Their strengths establish their strong points as an organization, that which gives them leverage when compared to their competitors. Weaknesses are just the opposite, in that they are what drags the org down, and inhibits or keeps it from achieving its objectives. The threats are external entities or circumstances that can potentially bridle or forbid the achievement of these goals.

Strategic decisions are therefore imperative, but making them is yet another quandary. For some organizational planning experts, three elements are contributive to successful strategic decisions. Structured conversation among the members of the group is said to aid in its fruition. Opportunities must be identified and accordingly addressed, and responsibilities will have to be delegated.

This planning stage is quite extensive and convoluted. First off, one must learn to identify opportunities, and then craft courses of action around them. Potential problems and roadblocks must be outlined. If ever multiple ones are pinpointed, then the organization would then have to establish their priorities according to their immediate needs. Of course, economics would have to be taken into account. After all, its the fuel that keeps everything, including your organization, up and running. One must therefore learn to effectively allocate all available resources.

The core competencies of an org would also have to be reiterated, if not reconsidered. After all, these are the organizations competitive advantages, and not putting them to good use will result in a knock down drag out languishing in whatever sphere the group is operating in. Its values and guiding principles would also need to be straightened out, that which outlines the culture of a company and giving a sneak peak on how things are done.

Thus the importance of getting a facilitator to aid both people and process. The facilitator is one that makes things easier for you and your company. This personnel helps to get your organization on track, by zeroing in on some particular focus and providing a viable direction. Usually, this facilitator is external to the company, but that can be beneficent and constructive. For one, he or she can bring outside perspective. After all, this personnel has most likely worked with many different groups, so he or she can bring a lot of tools, practices, and experiences to the table.

With a facilitator, everything is pretty much easier and smoother. The agenda is fixed and followed, and the meeting or workshop has focus and direction. Constructive communication is enabled, and the purpose of meetings is faithfully complied with and maintained. With such a flux of information and ideas among the constituents, the objectives of the company will surely and easily be carried out and fulfilled.




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