The NOISE Analysis: A Critical Look at Challenges and Ways to Address Them
Challenges & concerns with NOISE Analysis, a problem-solving framework, explore ways to ease these with solution-focused methods.
NOISE analysis points to bright spots to support change
NOISE analysis supports your understanding of the complexity and order of work. Determine short, mid, and long term strategic priorities
Student Government Strategic Planning and Team Building
It is amazing what happens when you create enough space for people to be creative and use their strengths.
Process to gather what is and is not working within the organization
The more straightforward and understandable the tool or process within organization development, the more likely it will make a difference. The simpler the tool, the greater the requirement of the consultant or expert to suppress themselves and their expertise. When you remove the translator (the expert) from the results and ask people to gather narrative … Continued
8 Uncommon Strategic Planning Steps
Meeting with a client, I shared that we will take an uncommon strategic planning approach. They seemed relaxed and concerned at the same time. The uncommon strategic planning idea is to build the system to identify weak signals for progress and regress that re-focuses the strategy. You cannot plan for strategy. You can plan how you … Continued
Ignoring strategy for the sake of planning is a choice
Ignoring strategy for the sake of planning is a choice, just as much as changing your plan as new strategies become apparent is a choice. One choice will change how the work gets done, and the other will keep it the same.
Strategic Re-Focusing Planning Agenda
I was asked to guide a company and it’s board through a strategic re-focusing process. What is strategic re-focusing? I asked the same question.
Strategic Planning More than SWOT’ing at hopes
There is nothing wrong with just doing a SWOT… The concern is that without some of the above information you are making strategy based upon limited knowledge and understanding. With limited knowledge and understanding you may miss or not be able to capture opportunities when they present themselves.
Why should we hire you? That is a useless question
The person cannot know what you are looking for. Only you, and the management team can know.
24 questions to ask before strategic planning
From the responses and how much overlap or separation I understand we can then develop the best way to co-create a strategic plan for the organization.