Strategic Planning

Is your strategic plan a vibrant, living document or is it collecting dust somewhere on a shelf? Integral Visions can help you to develop a strategic plan that mobilizes and empowers your workforce to achieve your desired future. Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. Simply put, strategic planning determines where an organization is going over the next 3-5 years, how it's going to get there and how it will know if it got there or not.

There are a variety of perspectives, models and approaches used in strategic planning today. According to Norton and Kaplan (Strategy Maps) 70-90% of strategic plans developed with traditional methods fail to be executed. Integral Visions offers a unique approach to Strategic Planning based on the Genuine Contact™ Program that improves the chances of strategic success. We use a holistic framework that involves a critical mass of people from inside and often from outside the organization. This results in a plan that is relevant to the people that you serve, that is embraced by the people responsible for bringing it to life and provides a way for all members of the organization to understand how their role assists the organization to achieve its strategic objectives. Our processes foster innovative thinking, collaboration within and between teams and emergent leadership. We use the Medicine Wheel Tool© as a holistic framework to create a plan that builds on current strengths, promotes achieves harmony and balance.

Our strategic planning process begins with ensuring the organization has a clear sense of purpose, leadership that values people, a compelling vision for the future, strong community, and structures that benefit the people. We work with you to develop these key components and help you to provide space for nurturing healthy individuals and to develop strategies for building organizational and individual capacity to achieve the preferred future.

From this nutrient-rich platform, we use participative processes that engage a critical mass of internal and external stakeholders to develop a strategic plan and share the plan across the organization. Performance measures are established to allow the organization to monitor its progress with the strategic goals and to be able to adjust the organization’s course of action to be in alignment with the goals or to recognize that goals need to be modified to meet the emerging market needs.