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YOUR PATH TO
Extraordinary Results
STARTS HERE
The Strategic Directions Planning System focuses your leaders and their teams on delivering extraordinary results.
Business leaders have a choice – play it safe and settle for mediocre performance. Or plan to achieve results beyond those the organization has been used to achieving – a.k.a. extraordinary results – with an intentional, possibly disruptive, purpose-driven strategy.
For those who seize the opportunity, the strategic focus might be innovation, and the strategy could be built around a ground-breaking or game-changing idea. For others, the focus could be squarely on boosting profitability, accelerating growth, and/or transforming incompatible and ineffective structures or processes.
We wrote the book on extraordinary results.
OK, it's not really a book. It's actually a position paper full of valuable tips on how to build and execute a strategy for achieving extraordinary results.
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“The Strategic Directions Planning System makes so much sense. Kudos for providing an approach that any leadership team can understand and put to good use.” – Lisa Shepherd, President, Mezzanine Growth
Is your organization dealing with any of these?
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seemingly irreconcilable views on the path forward
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lack of a clear or widely embraced vision or purpose
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a confusing and convoluted decision-making process
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silos that don’t work well together
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too much invested in disconnected or "shiny" projects
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conflicting priorities and a lack of focus
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difficulties attracting and keeping the right talent
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low, no, or negative growth
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an unacceptable level of customer, client, member, or donor churn
We designed the Strategic Directions Planning System to deal with the toughest challenges.
Over the last 20 years, we’ve had the opportunity to help business organizations of many types and sizes achieve extraordinary results. This experience has taught us what it takes to perform at the highest level
We’ve built all this experience into the Strategic Directions Planning System. It is an extremely effective way of laser-focusing your leaders and teams on overcoming major threats and challenges and delivering extraordinary results without losing sight of their day-to-day responsibilities.
6
points along your path
to extraordinary results.
1
ENGAGE employees and other key stakeholders through inclusive conversation, active participation, and recognition along the journey to – and through – execution.
3
VISUALIZE an explicit picture of what success will look like at a future point in time based on a clear understanding and endorsement of the organization's Purpose.
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TRANSLATE strategic decisions into executable and fully resourced actions with clearly defined and agreed-upon project accountabilities, and responsibilities.
2
CLARIFY leadership's collective understanding of the evolving business landscape including compelling opportunities and vulnerabilities.
4
COLLABORATE on making informed choices on strategic priorities (issues) and "ordinaries", and the initiatives and projects that will achieve desired outcomes.
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ACT, TRACK, & UPDATE action plans every 90 days in light of progress made and changing circumstances to ensure actions remain fresh and relevant.
There is much more on how we work with clients to achieve extraordinary results on our Planning System page. Please take a moment to check it out.
Why work
with Strategic Directions?
Since 2014, our mission has been to help our clients achieve extraordinary results by being purpose-driven, people-centred, and strategic.
When you involve us in your planning process, you get the all the experience, skills, process, and personal style needed to achieve the outcomes you’re after.
Our clients include divisions of large multinationals, mid-sized local or regional businesses, professional services firms, associations, and charities. Learn more.
“The outcomes of the strategic planning process were logical, supported, and created a strong base for the organization to move ahead with.” Tourism Marketing Organization
The nature of your business doesn’t affect our ability to deliver results.
The planning process and concepts are largely the same. Your organization's distinctiveness and issues relate more to its purpose, culture, and strategic focus. Want to know more? Check out our Planning System.
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Aren’t ready for an end-to-end planning project?
We’d love to facilitate a problem-solving workshop or conduct research to improve the quality of your decisions. Check out Services à la Carte.
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Strategic Directions Strategy Team