Reimagine Strategic Planning
Clarify your vision. Align your team. Make pivotal decisions.
Does your business lack a clear direction or struggle to prioritize effectively? You’re not alone. Many organizations operate without a strategic plan, leading to mission drift, wasted resources, and ultimately, a lack of impact.
Strategic Planning with BOxD is your roadmap to success. We use a collaborative, structured process that brings your leadership and stakeholders together to build a shared vision for the future, including the strategies, goals, objectives and activities that will bring that vision to life.
The resulting strategic plan is a documented blueprint that your team has bought into, covering where the business is going, how it will get there, and specific ways to determine if you’ve arrived at the destination. Getting your organization on the same page is game-changing!
Why BOxD?
While other strategic planning consultants focus their energy on a document, BOxD partners with you to not just develop the plan but also implement it. We stand up execution processes that are sticky, consistent and lightweight so that every strategic decision at the organizational, leader and team level is aligned with your mission and values. Other firms specialize in one of these areas, but at BOxD, we know that all three layers need expert attention for sustained change.
Why BOxD?
While other strategic planning consultants focus their energy on a document, BOxD partners with you to not just develop the plan but also implement it. We stand up execution processes that are sticky, consistent and lightweight so that every strategic decision at the organizational, leader and team level is aligned with your mission and values. Other firms specialize in one of these areas, but at BOxD, we know that all three layers need expert attention for sustained change.
We researched many strategic planning retreat facilitators and ultimately chose BOxD. Their deep dive into our company and insightful discussions impressed us. The facilitator expertly managed our team dynamic, leading to valuable outcomes. Highly recommend BOxD!
Allie Morton Senior Director of People Operations at FluentStream
We researched retreat facilitators and choose BOxD. Their deep dive into our company and insightful discussions impressed us. The facilitator expertly managed our team dynamic, leading to valuable outcomes. Hihgly recommend BOxD!
Allie Morton Senior Director of People Operations at FluentStream
Choices about programs, staff, infrastructure, technology and more are being made on a daily basis and each choice carries real consequences. Without a strategic plan to guide decision-making, it’s easy to spend precious human and financial resources on ineffective work that doesn’t advance your mission.
BOxD leverages the power of our Organization Design Sandwich framework to dissect your critical strategic issues and transform strategy conversations into actionable roadmaps. As each piece evolves in relation to strategic decisions, you’ll be able to identify what’s working and what isn’t – and course correct to better use resources and achieve greater impact.
What to Expect From BOxD:
We can help you with strategic planning from inception to implementation, including:
- Determining which stakeholders should be involved, when, and why
- Gathering stakeholder and customer input
- Designing high impact planning sessions or retreats
- Refining the plan
- Coaching the leadership team on what they need to do differently to deliver
- Translating the plan for each of the departments
- Gathering organizational support and communicating the plan
- Developing a compelling story
- Serving as an accountability partner and troubleshooting guide throughout implementation.
We will guide you and push your thinking as we answer a series of critical questions that will shape your business’ future:
- What is your vision for the future? What does it mean to win?
- Where are the arenas where you will compete? And where will you not?
- How will you differentiate yourselves from your competitors in those arenas?
- What unique capabilities will you rely on? Where must you truly be excellent?
- How does your organization need to shift to power those capabilities?
- What environmental factors will help and hinder you? And how do you address them?
- What investments will you make? And in what order?
We know that there are many choices when it comes to strategic planning consultants. Our approach has been proven to not just stretch your thinking but also strengthen your leadership team as part of the process. We address a critical success factor in the implementation of any well thought out plan: your team’s alignment and commitment.
Contact us to learn more about our Strategic Planning Program so that you not only predict the future – you prepare for it. Take control of your organization’s future with BOxD as your Strategic Planning Partner. Book a zero pressure meeting today!
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