The StratOp Process

The StratOp process helps a business leadership team gain perspective on its entire company, both internally and externally, and blends the strategic (planning for tomorrow, today), the operational (taking care of today, today), and the financial (all of it must be funded) into a working plan deliverable. The StratOp Process installs a six-phase system into your management and leadership rhythm.

What distinguishes the StratOp processes from other strategic planning methods is that it is a behaviorally-sound process enabling leaders to manage their business as a whole, not as a collection of parts, vital in today’s globally competitive environment. Each step of the Process logically and systemically builds on the next and blends together the strategic (planning for tomorrow, today), operational (tending to today, today) and the financial (it all must be financed). The result is a breakthrough of thinking, alignment and focus. Through a “managing the whole” approach, a new potential is released with astonishing results.

When completed, The StratOp process captures your plan into a Plan-On-A-Page format with an underlying playbook. The plan is managed monthly and renewed annually. The end result is a new management and leadership system that will help you incrementally advance towards your vision, while staying true to your mission. You will learn how to identify and minimize risk, manage your drivers to high-performance, develop leaders, and imbed renewal into your planning system for rapid adaptation to change.

What Our Coaches Do

We facilitate a three-day process with you and your team and use a variety of customized tools to gain perspective and create a customized core plan for your organization. They instruct you over the following four to six weeks to lead newly created teams to develop action plans for all initiatives identified in the three-day meeting.

Return approximately one month later for two-days, meeting with each team to review and "scrub" their work. They also prepare you and your leadership team to launch and install your new plan.

We work with you to create your "Plan-On-A-Page" and underlying "Playbook" and coach you over the following months through your monthly and quarterly plan reviews.

Depending on your structure, they work with you to restructure your organization and then to help you learn how to read the signs of change and embed renewal into your management team's thinking and leadership.
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What Will You Experience From the Process?

You receive a ready to install, customized strategic-operating plan, both in a Plan-On-A-Page format and in a Playbook format.

You receive unity and alignment from your team with clarified roles and a plan to move towards your vision and future, while tending to the operational realities of today.

You learn a new system to manage and integrate the strategic, operational and financial components of your organization. Back to top

What is Our Approach?

We call ourselves growth partners rather than consultants. Too often, we encounter negative reports about consultants who charged high fees without delivering transformative and helpful deliverables.

Our approach is to facilitate a proven process with you and your leadership team, trusting the process to help you self-discover the facts and truths of your organization and creating a customized plan that fits within your financial and staff capacities. As facilitators we say regularly, "We are process. You are content."

We don't come into an organization with an agenda but with a strategic-operating planning process that we have seen effectively work in hi-tech and manufacturing companies, in computer software companies, in service industries, and in governmental and educational institutions of all kinds and sizes. Back to top