Making Strategic Planning work with C21 Consulting

We can't predict the future in such an uncertain world but we nevertheless need to be intentional about our business direction and strategy. If you don't know where you are going, how are you going to get there?

We can support you directly by helping you to create meaningful and measurable plans that will drive your business forward.

"The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension." - Peter Senge

We can do this in a number of ways, but the most common of these are:

  1. Working with you as the business owner to help you identify your goals and plans and putting them down in writing so you can see where you are going and can track your progress
  2. Facilitating the planning process with the senior team, directors or trustees.  This process is not only powerful in terms of creating your plan or strategy but in bringing all the key players in your organisation to the table in order to gain commitment to a shared vision for the future. Typically this is done by facilitating a number of meetings where key information about your business, the market and the future potential and challenges can be tabled and turned into your plan.
  3. Producing a plan for and in conjunction with you which spells out your business identity, core competence, goals and targets.  This might be something you are producing for yourself or may well be something you are producing for an external partner or stakeholder or even a potential funder.

We have extensive experience of working with groups and with individuals in order to reach an agree position for your business.  Our experience is not simply in consulting but in management hence our practice is grounded in the real world, and is focused on action learning.

We don't come to you with prescriptions.  We don't preach at you.  We recognise that you know your business and your market intimately and within you and your team you have most of what it takes to get you to your destination.  Our aim is to draw out the know how and take you from chaos into a place where you are in control of your business and its future.