Strategic Planning Designed to Take Your Business in the Right Direction
Too often we see executive teams operate with no strategic plan in place, or their plan has too many initiatives that are not cascaded or communicated down into the organization properly.
Day to day operations seem to take precedence and as important as strategy is, it takes a back seat to getting operational needs met.
While there are a variety of ways to approach strategic planning, the most common is to take prior years objectives and update them. The problem with this method is you may be focusing on the wrong current strategic targets.
KerrHill’s ASR (Action Strategy Review) process eliminates the possibility of focusing on the wrong strategic goals. It ensures C-suite executive teams set the right strategic targets based on current business pressure points, and subsequent goals and initiatives are aligned to address key challenges facing the business.
“As a result of implementing KerrHill’s ASR strategic planning process, we were able to effectively reach our top and bottom-line goals of 15% revenue growth and 15% bottom line profit within one year of implantation.” - Burton W.
Not seeing the results you want from your current strategic plan?
The problem with typical strategic planning processes
- Using prior year goals for this year’s plan
- Too many targets and initiatives are created
- Team workload not accounted for in plan
- Clear expectations are not set with the people involved
- Lack of clarity and ownership on strategic initiatives
- Lack of communication of strategy to organization and teams
- Appropriate time isn’t allocated on the executive team to review progress
KerrHill’s ASR approach to strategic planning
- Identifies current external pressures on the business
- Creates goals specific to pain points in the business
- Selects initiatives through group consensus to ensure C-Suite alignment
- Identifies performance indicators for progress measurement
- Cross checks initiatives to ensure success
- Identifies appropriate owners and stakeholders
- Creates a communication strategy that can be cascaded down into the organization
- Provides a system for ensuring strategic meetings and accountability to results
See what our clients are saying
Jim
“Finally, a strategic planning course that sets realistic targets and knows how to implement steps in a way that is manageable for everyone involved.”
Phillip
“It’s not how you start it’s how you finish. The KerrHill strategic planning process helped us achieve what we were needing to get from the 2-day strategic offsite. We left with key strategic goals and action plans that we now have alignment and clarity on for the organization.”
John
“As a result of the KerrHill’s strategic planning process – we were able to achieve 15% revenue and net profit growth when we were averaging 7-10% annually. We far exceeded what we thought we could do based on having a solid plan."
Chris
“This plan helped us build momentum that no other plan was able to do before.”
KerrHill’s Strategic Planning 4-Phase Process
Phase 1
Analysis
- Understand the pitfalls to traditional strategic planning sessions.
- Explore pressing pressure points in your business.
- Conduct brainstorming and data analysis on pressure points.
Phase 2
Target Setting
- Set relevant strategic targets.
- Create performance indicators for each target.
- Identify & create key strategic initiatives to support targets.
Phase 3
Cross checking
- Clarify sponsors and owners to initiatives.
- Conduct a “force field” analysis on all initiatives.
- Identify timelines and checkpoints for implementation & follow up sessions.
Phase 4
Execution
- Set action planning initiatives so action plans are ready to go.
- Explore business readiness for change and implementation of initiatives.
- Create a communication link for teams.
Benefits of our strategic planning process
- Greater C-Suite buy-in and alignment as a result of the collective decision-making process
- The ability to pinpoint the top 3-5 most important strategic goals
- Clarity and accountability for executing realistic and effective plans
- Increased confidence establishing high-priority targets and initiatives
- Increased confidence establishing high-priority targets and initiatives
Strategic Planning Offsite Service
- Designed for: C-Suite, VP, Director, Senior Manager Levels
- Format: In-person or virtual
- Length: 1-2 days
- Cost: Contact us for session rates
- Group size: 6-20 people
- Location: At client location or an offsite meeting facility
- Service includes: A pre offsite intake with each executive, 1-2 days of facilitation,
post session summary of strategic initiatives, debrief with the CEO and a 30-45 day
post session check in with the executive team. - Click here to view the program PDF