Courageous Future: Strategic Planning Webinar Opportunity
Few things have the potential to galvanize an organization as much as a bold future. Giant Leap Consulting has been proud to provide a client-centered, skillfully facilitated strategic planning program that helps organizations define their meaningful, bold future. Setting a strong strategic direction for your organization is critical. Unfortunately, people think that strategic planning expertise is solely the domain of highly specialized, external consultants who have to bring their special brand of mojo. Fortunately, there are tools and frameworks that are easy to use and follow and do not require multiple PhDs to decipher. Giant Leap Consulting’s approach to strategic planning has benefited the National Science Foundation, Aldridge Electric, Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, Cayuse Technologies, and multiple research centers based at MIT, UC-Berkeley, Purdue, and Michigan State University to name a few.
This session will:
Present an agile and scalable strategic planning framework
Provide resources to contribute to a successful planning effort
Explain techniques to successfully sustain the impact of your strategic planning process
Demonstrate how to de-boringize the process so that your meeting is interactive and engaging
Highlight five critical mistakes to avoid
This webinar will be lead by Bill Treasurer and Laura Cohn, Giant Leap Consulting’s lead strategic planning team. Bill and Laura have thousands of hours of collective experience with strategic planning. Having worked with for-profit, non-profit, government agencies, academic institutions, and everything in between; there experience has helped them to refine a highly effective planning process that helps organizations define their bold future.
This webinar will be held on April 20, 2012 at 2:00 pm (Eastern). This is a free workshop we are making available to the friends of Giant Leap. To register or ask any questions, email us at – lshiver at giantleapconsulting dot com*
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