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STRATEGIC PLANNING
Is your organization preparing to grow or change? Or, are you attempting to heal from some kind of setback? Mint Chip Studios designs strategic planning processes that suit your organization's strategy, culture, and stage of life.
Typically, we create a strategic plan for clients with three core sections: a mission statement, a roadmap for reaching the key goals in next 3-5 years, and an impact dashboard to track progress along the way.
We look for the “big rocks.”
Our approach is based on years of experience and anecdotes of great leaders and those that stumbled. We at Mint Chip have seen planning approaches that work well as well as ones that we never want to use again! Everything we create and every exchange we have with our clients is riveted on the shortest, straightest and most potent path to meet your collective goals.
We are committed to facilitating exchanges that are contextual, scalable, pragmatic and informed by what we know will translate into action and improved performance. We want leaders to be engaged in developing plans that are immediately implemented in their organizations.
Three guiding values underlie everything we do:
We believe leaders operate within very complex environments and we resist the urge to oversimplify your realities.
Humans’ best thinking emerges in a forum based on the free exchange of ideas. We create safe spaces to try out new ideas and behaviors that breathe new energy into your leadership and your organization.
We honor the resident individual and collective wisdom of leaders and build from the base of your strengths.
We approach strategic planning in six steps:
Plans can be complicated, but we try to simplify as much as possible. By weaving six core tasks together, a client can accelerate its progress and reduce time spent on unproductive actions. Our focus areas are:
Revisit Purpose
Articulate Long-Term Goals
Define Short-Term Goals
Analyze Gaps
Develop Metrics
Create Roadmap—to move clients from insights to action.
Our goal is to co-create a high level 3-5 year roadmap for action by integrating the goals and ideas articulated in the impact dashboard into the current reality. This allows the document to be a “living plan” rather than a static one, which becomes a practical set of tools for facilitating a client’s efforts into the future.
DETAILS
Our approach can flex to the needs, developmental stage and budget appropriate and available. It can be collapsed into as little as 12 hours (assuming the client does the bulk of the work internally) or can expand to encompass a series of full-day workshops spanning months. Most clients land somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, often a series of six half-day meetings over 3-6 months. This can happen rapidly or more patiently, as best suits each client’s agenda and leaders’ availability. Project cost vary according to client’s needs and project scope.