Strategic Planning

“Action-Learning” Consul-Training For Teams

The cost of hiring a good consultant to help you prepare a strategic plan ranges between $15,000 to $100,000. Many organizations therefore choose to either allocate the task to someone internal (and likely un-qualified), or avoid the strategic planning exercise altogether.

With over 30 years of experience in strategic planning consulting and facilitation, 5i Strategic Affairs is introducing a revolutionary, cost- effective training program to help leadership teams rapidly rise-up the strategic planning learning curve.

In a “shared learning space”, leadership teams from five non-competing organizations will come together to create their next 2-5 year strategic plan while learning the latest in strategic planning theory, practice and facilitation

This action-learning 10-week program will help 4-8 leadership team members from five organizations create their own strategic plan while broadening and deepening the level of strategic planning capability and maturity in their respective organizations.

• ~10 weeks of mixed asynchronous and synchronous learning and interactions

• One full-day of one-on-one interviews with each team

• Five “live sessions” of 3.5 hours lead by Mark Hollingworth (also available on demand)

• Three 90-minutes “coaching” sessions spread over the 10 weeks of the program for each of the five teams to help them to create their plans

• Access to “on-demand” videos and articles describing different models, real examples and different parts of the strategic planning process

• Individual and group exercises Via Zoom – with exercises of Googlesheets; Jamboard, Miro, Mural, Wordcloud etc. as required

1. Most Strategy courses are taught by

• academics of Strategy who have never worked in an organization and/or lead a strategic planning exercise from “A-to-Z” in an organization;
• experienced strategic planning consultants, hired to teach a course, but who have no teaching expertise.

2. If only one person from an organization attends a short-course training and does not apply the material within the subsequent 3 months, the learning is lost.

3. Course participants do not want to only learn the models, theory and process of strategic planning; they want to leave being able to actually do it.

4. When the training is led by an experienced strategic planning consultant/facilitator who has also taught Strategy at a major university for over 20 years, both the resulting strategic plan and the learning experience should be exceptional.