The Secrets to Facilitating Strategy: Virtual Edition

Description

Learn how to confidently guide teams through the strategic planning process and transform organizational goals into actionable strategies.

Leadership Strategies' Secrets to Facilitating Strategy: Virtual Edition is an intensive, interactive training program designed to equip facilitators, consultants, and organizational leaders with the techniques and tools needed to lead successful strategic planning sessions.

Using Leadership Strategies' proven Drivers Model™, you'll develop a comprehensive understanding of the essential components of a strategic plan and learn how to facilitate teams through each stage of the planning process, from establishing a shared vision to developing implementation strategies and monitoring progress.

This two-part program combines self-paced learning with three days of live, instructor-led virtual training. You'll begin by mastering the strategic planning framework independently before advancing to hands-on facilitation exercises, practical applications, and collaborative learning.

Through realistic scenarios, guided practice, and expert instruction, you'll learn to navigate common strategic planning challenges, encourage meaningful participation, build consensus, and help teams develop strategies that deliver measurable results.

Whether you're facilitating your organization's strategic planning process or guiding clients through complex planning initiatives, this course provides a structured approach and practical resources to help you lead strategic planning sessions with confidence.

Key Takeaways:

Through structured instruction, interactive exercises, and practical applications, you'll learn to:

• Facilitate the Strategic Planning Process: Apply the Drivers Model™ to guide teams through the essential components of developing a comprehensive strategic plan.
• Establish Strategic Direction: Help teams visualize the future, develop meaningful mission and vision statements, establish guiding principles, and define organizational goals.
• Conduct Strategic Assessments: Guide teams in evaluating their current situation, identifying critical success factors, and uncovering barriers that may prevent success.
• Develop Actionable Strategies: Facilitate the development of positioning strategies, measurable objectives, and action plans that translate organizational priorities into meaningful action.
• Build Consensus and Alignment: Apply effective facilitation techniques to encourage participation, manage differing perspectives, and establish shared ownership of strategic decisions.
• Drive Successful Implementation: Develop communication plans, establish accountability, and facilitate monitoring processes to help organizations execute their strategic plans.
• Navigate Common Planning Challenges: Recognize and avoid common strategic planning pitfalls while keeping teams focused, engaged, and moving toward results.

This course is ideal for:

This course is designed for professionals responsible for leading, supporting, or facilitating strategic planning initiatives, including:

• Professional facilitators and consultants
• Executives and organizational leaders
• Strategic planning professionals
• Business analysts
• Project and program managers
• Human resources and organizational development professionals
• Government and nonprofit professionals involved in strategic planning

It is particularly valuable for individuals who want to strengthen their ability to guide teams through strategic planning, establish organizational alignment, and translate strategic objectives into actionable plans.

What you'll learn:

Secrets to Facilitating Strategy combines independent learning with an immersive, three-day virtual workshop to help you develop both strategic planning knowledge and practical facilitation skills.

Part I: Learning Strategic Planning

Begin with approximately 1–2 hours of self-paced learning focused on Leadership Strategies' strategic planning framework.

You'll explore the Drivers Model™, the essential components of a strategic plan, and the steps involved in preparing, developing, and implementing an effective strategy.

Part II: Facilitating Strategy Sessions

Join your instructor and fellow participants for three days of interactive virtual training focused on applying facilitation techniques throughout the strategic planning process.

Using a detailed facilitator guide, you'll work through realistic strategic planning scenarios, participate in practical exercises, and practice guiding teams through essential planning activities.

The workshop includes opportunities to practice facilitating management briefings, conducting situation assessments, establishing strategic direction, developing implementation plans, and monitoring organizational progress.

You'll gain practical experience and a repeatable approach you can apply when facilitating strategic planning initiatives within your organization or for your clients.

Course Objectives

Master the techniques needed to guide teams through successful strategic planning. This interactive virtual program combines self-paced learning with three days of live instruction, practical exercises, and hands-on facilitation practice. Learn to apply Leadership Strategies' Drivers Model™ to establish strategic direction, build organizational alignment, develop actionable plans, and drive successful implementation.

Why Take This Course

Training Focus: Strategic planning facilitation, organizational alignment, consensus building, implementation planning, and accountability.