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Free Tools You Might Find Useful
Your Strategic Number™
Every business organization has a Strategic Number – a measure of the effectiveness of its strategy and strategic planning process.
Spend less than 5 minutes answering a few straightforward questions to discover how well your strategic planning process is working and where it might be letting you down.
You'll get a score out of 100 – Your Strategic Number™ – plus insights to help focus your planning efforts and improve your results.
To begin, simply click For-profit Business, Professional or Trade Association, or Professional Services.
We offer Your Strategic Number™ without charge or obligation. It's simply our way of introducing Strategic Directions and affirming our commitment to strategic excellence.
Facilitator Interview Guide
7 questions to help you qualify potential facilitators
Knowing what questions to ask in the process of vetting a facilitator, or creating a shortlist of two or three qualified facilitators, can be a challenge.
We’ve designed this guide to help you identify a facilitator capable of doing a first class job on your specific project.
Best Meeting™ Audit
According to a 2014 Harris Poll, almost 7% of on-the-job time is spent in wasteful meetings. That’s over 3 solid weeks of wasted time per year – just in bad meetings!
Productive meetings don't just happen. Each requires a lot of thought, planning, and, quite frankly, hard work. Many decisions have to be made, including:
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The outcomes that you want to achieve.
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How to maintain participant interest.
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What venue to select.
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Whom to invite.
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What to communicate before and after the event.
From our experience facilitating more than 500 meetings, workshops, and retreats, we've developed our Best Meeting™ Audit. It will help you think through areas that require attention and provide us with information on which to base suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of future meetings.
Instructions for Best Meeting™ Audit:
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Download the fillable PDF Audit document using the form on the right.
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Check all the areas that you feel could benefit from some attention.
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Highlight the '5' that, in your opinion, will make the greatest difference.
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Provide any other relevant information in the space provided.
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Contact us by phone (+1 (800) 465-6500) or email (info@StrategicDirections.ca) to arrange a time to review your results.
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Email us a copy of your completed Best Meeting™ Audit prior to the meeting.
And that's it. There is no charge or obligation whatsoever. Completing the Best Meeting™ Audit will require only a few minutes of your time, ...and the positive impact on future meetings could be significant.
Best Meeting™ Evaluator
Spend just 10 minutes answering 25 questions to uncover ways of making your next strategic meeting, workshop, or retreat an unqualified success.
The Best Meeting Evaluator™covers the following areas:
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Preparation: Session Expectations, Participant Selection, Facilitator Selection, Facilities Selection, Agenda Design, Participant Readiness,
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Meeting Management: Meeting Tone, Participant Engagement, Group Dynamics, Agenda Management
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Results: Outcome Achievement, Follow-on Action, Documentation
Within two business days, we'll send you a personalized report highlighting the items in each of these areas that are critically important to the success of your Strategic Meetings.