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Strategic/Business Planning

Ascent can provide your team with the training to equip them to engage in a meaningful planning process.  We can also take this a step further and facilitate the process, and even draft the plan document itself.

Planning Process Development

Planning is a process.  It is like a journey.  It is possible to go through the process of developing a plan without a road map, but as with a journey, it is more efficient and rewarding knowing both the destination and the route ahead of time.

Ascent can work with company management to determine the best course of action for your company to take in developing your plans.  The process will be tailored to meet your needs.

Plan Development Training

Ascent has decades of experience in developing and implementing successful plans.  Learning fundamental concepts can make the process of planning more productive, and will facilitate more independent planning efforts in the future.  Training can cover:

v     Planning basics

v     Defining terms for common understanding

v     Options for the planning process

v     Key components of a typical plan

v     Plan formats

v     Roles in the development of the plan

v     Inter-relationships between different plans in the same company

v     Integration of the plan into the corporate culture

v     Implementation of the plan

v     Monitoring plan results and redirecting

v     Reward mechanisms


Planning Process/Planning Meeting Facilitation

Professional, external facilitation of the plan development processes allows the management team to focus their energies on generating great ideas and producing a great plan because someone else is keeping the process moving and on track.  Ascent’s experience and training takes what is a sometimes mystical and amorphous process and turns it into a tangible and practical planning process.

Plan Authoring/Drafting

After the plan process is developed and the planning meeting is over, at some point someone has to put pen to paper and produce a document for the rest of the planning team to review.  This is both a science and an art.  Ascent’s expertise and objectivity allows us to provide this draft, and subsequent versions, rapidly and cost-effectively.

Whether you want Ascent to supply the training to equip your team to plan effectively, or you want us to guide you through the whole planning process, we would be honored to work with you to develop an approach that meets your specific circumstances.

Please contact us via email at Dave@AscentAdvising.com, by phone at 206 669-7055, or visit our website at AscentAdvising.com

 

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