The Action Planning Strategy team can help you develop your organisation and ensure that you take your whole team with you on your future direction. Send an enquiry to arrange an initial, no obligation chat about your strategy need.
Having a clear organisational strategy which everyone can align behind is vital to ensure you can achieve your vision and mission. Our strategy and business planning experts will take the time to get to know you and your organisation before helping to establish a robust, future focused and sustainable plan for the organisation. We can help you consult with a range of stakeholders so that your new strategy recognises the changing world you are working in and how you are best placed to drive impact.
The objectivity our consultants provide is often transformational in enabling every voice to be heard and facilitating constructive discussion. This is crucial not only for developing the best possible co-designed strategy for your organisation and its culture, but for ensuring buy-in from everyone involved, from staff to trustees; service users to donors.
There comes a time in the life cycle of every charity where it goes from kitchen table to boardroom and beyond. Such seismic shifts need careful planning to ensure you have the capacity and vision to sustain the work that has got you to this point. Our organisational development consultants can work alongside you to advise and support you through change.
By taking an objective view of your situation and goals, we can provide a change management service that assess the risks, identifies the opportunities and ensures that everyone is left with a clear understanding of the way forward and a role that fires their enthusiasm.
When the time comes to review your strategic plan, it helps to take everyone out of the day-to-day working environment. Our strategy consultants can facilitate an awayday where your Board and management team are invited to think and speak freely, opening the way to creative ideas and a clearer sense of your organisation’s purpose.
We will speak to each of you in advance, enabling every voice to be heard and every opinion to be taken into consideration. Even when the outcome is simply confirmation of what you’re doing already, our Strategic Review service never fails to leave a more confident and cohesive team spirit.
If planning and implementation are the drivers of your organisation’s aims, monitoring and evaluation are the navigation tools by which you first plot your course and then ensure you’re sticking to it. Change your culture to be more outcomes focused, demonstrate the difference you’re making to stakeholders and boost internal morale.
We can provide you with the tools and methods to help you demonstrate the outcomes of your work, prove your effectiveness and show that your strategy promises are being met. We also offer in-house training in the use of monitoring and evaluation systems and advise on appropriate products to aid the process.
For planning matters that require collective input, such as developing your vision and mission, taking everyone off-site for a day of creative collaboration can be of enormous benefit, especially when the day is facilitated by an experienced and objective third party like Action Planning.
We specialise in putting together stimulating, task-based awaydays that address your organisation’s specific challenges and yield workable outcomes. By using our expert facilitators, you can focus on participating fully during the day. Our awaydays are particularly effective for building unity within leadership teams and strengthening the relationship between Chair and CEO.
There is often confusion over what is a Strategic Plan and what is a Business Plan. A Strategic Plan tends to be more visionary and contain more words, whilst a Business Plan is more about the nuts and bolts of the operation and contains more numbers. In fact, any plan needs both parts: a Business Plan without vision is uninspiring; a Strategic Plan that doesn’t address the nuts and bolts of delivery is probably never going to happen.
Our consultants will support you in drafting your business plan, by ensuring that everyone who needs to have input is heard and steering discussions to a constructive conclusion.
Recent Strategic Planning work completed
Sean Tully
Sean Tully
Vanessa Swann
Vanessa Swann
Andrew Rainsford
Andrew Rainsford
Anja Batista Sonksen
Anja Batista Sonksen
David Bull
David Bull
Felicia Willow
Felicia Willow
Andrew Humphreys
Andrew Humphreys
Victoria Fafalios
Victoria Fafalios
Laura Treneer
Laura Treneer
Kate Griffiths
Kate Griffiths
David Saint
David Saint
Ruth Dwight
Ruth Dwight
Eleanor Mitchell
Eleanor Mitchell
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Isabel Merrifield
Isabel Merrifield
Andrew Jermey-Boys
Andrew Jermey-Boys
David Burland
David Burland
David Kirby
David Kirby
Kate Nicholas
Kate Nicholas
Karon Phillips
Karon Phillips
Karen Morton
Karen Morton
D’Arcy Myers
D’Arcy Myers
Athina Fokidou
Athina Fokidou
Clare Bamberger
Clare Bamberger
Dawn Ray
Dawn Ray
Claire Mathys
Claire Mathys
Joy Gascoigne
Joy Gascoigne
Philip Mills
Philip Mills
Ruth Mulryne
Ruth Mulryne
Shalini Jain
Shalini Jain
Terry Ndee
Terry Ndee
Angela Painter
Angela Painter
David Wm Reynolds
David Wm Reynolds
Ned Wells
Ned Wells
Clare McIntosh
Clare McIntosh
Nick Wilkie
Nick Wilkie
James Baker
James Baker
Andy Strajnic
Andy Strajnic
Nicola Scott
Nicola Scott
Stephen Dengate
Stephen Dengate
Andrew Clark
Andrew Clark
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