Strategic Focusing and Strategic Planning Facilitation

What does success look like, anyway?

It's the question that shapes your company's future and drives every decision you make. But what if everyone on your team has a slightly different vision of success? It's a common scenario—and one that will surely prevent you from solving business problems and reaching your goal.

Kimberly Douglas, president of FireFly Facilitation, can help everyone on your team get clear on two critical issues:

1. where you are going
2. how you must work together to get there.

It's that simple. Then, once your team can see the mountain at the end of the road—the image Kimberly likes to use with her clients—they can fully commit to reaching it.

The FireFly Facilitation strategic planning process has four parts:

• The road you are on is your mission. If the organization ceased to exist, what would the world lose?
• The mountain in the distance is your vision for success. Three years into the future, how will you know if you have been successful in living up to your mission?
• Mile markers are the key milestones. How will you measure your progress against the vision and course-correct if needed?
• The guardrails are your guiding principles. How will your leadership team commit to work with each other to reach that mountain?

Yes, it's a great metaphor—but there's nothing metaphorical about the results you'll get. They are real, tangible and measurable. For each session, Kimberly works with you to:

• Create an environment to get the best thinking from all team members.
• Create clear session objectives.
• Develop a detailed agenda to ensure you achieve the session objectives.
• Analyze alternatives and reach decisions that have everyones commitment.
• Develop concrete action plans in a way that ensures accountability.

Here's what some past clients have to say about FireFly's strategic planning facilitation:

"Your facilitation ability and people skills enabled a specialized, talented group of 21 Senior Directors and Special Staff members to come out of their fox holes and work together as an effective cross functional team of experts. The increase in productivity as a result of the improved understanding and cooperation among the departments helped us to focus on supporting our customer, The Warfighter. Thanks for a job well done."
Colonel B.G. Lee
Chief of Staff, Logistics Command, U.S. Marine Corps

"Kimberly is great at ensuring that every board member's viewpoint is heard. This leads to a better strategic plan, with stronger commitment by everyone."
Kelly Caffarelli
President, The Home Depot Foundation 

"As a result of your leadership, energy, and enthusiasm, our Board was able to establish a strategic focus that we have not had in the past." 
Janet N. Parker
Area II Vice President (SHRM Board Chair 2007-2008), Society for Human Resources Management Board of Directors

Contact FireFly Facilitation to unleash the energy and harness the creativity of your teams.