Strategic Visioning is The Online Facilitation Skills flexible methodology for visually aided strategic analysis. We design and facilitate Strategic Visioning sessions tailored to your needs and sense of urgency. Our consultants are skilled in group process design to deliver a shared vision and goals for your organization in a matter of days—either in person or virtually. At the heart of the Strategic Visioning approach is a series of guided conversations that bring key stakeholders into agreement about new directions. Visual facilitation creates a high-engagement process that supports alignment around:
While preserving the best practices of traditional planning, Strategic Visioning adds creativity and big-picture thinking. The process is distinctive in using visual templates, called Graphic Guides®, to support focused conversations about an organization’s environment, current situation, vision of a desired future state and action plans for implementing a strategic vision. The visual frameworks enable groups to collectively brainstorm and learn from one another.
Focused on visual displays of their planning work, participants see where they are in alignment and where they still need to reach agreement. At the conclusion of these sessions, every person leaves with a shared vision of what the organization aims to achieve and how its key strategies will unfold. Groups tend to find the sessions not only productive, but inspiring.
Many organizations have embraced Strategic Visioning as their go-to, annual planning process. We’re happy to discuss your organization’s particular needs.
Over the past 20 years The Online Facilitation Skills has facilitated a Strategic Visioning process every five years for the DLR Group. It helped the organization reach a #1 ranking in the US.
This workshop will prepare you to lead this template-based process, or have The Online Facilitation Skills run a training within your organization, virtually or in person. We also offer licensing for the necessary do-it-yourself tools.
Learn how visual practitioners and leaders can use applied design thinking to foster engagement and align entire organizations on new plans.
For those who have taken our courses and/or prefer a do-it-yourself approach, we’ve developed toolsets that guide groups through processes of reflection, direction-setting and planning.