Strategic Planning New Directions' consultants guide their clients through a multi-step process to develop effective business and organizational strategic plans. The planning process begins with Visioning the Future, a series of questions that clients address to detail their desired future. They are then assisted in their SWOT analysis process, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats based on information from stakeholder surveys developed and tabulated by New Directions. From the SWOT data, the client develops a series of Critical Success Factors. These factors are prioritized, forming the foundation for setting SMART strategic goals and objectives and building the Cascaded Planning Documents. New Directions provides the facilitation expertise to guide the process and ask probing, insightful and, at times, challenging questions. One organization was able to launch an aggressive out-of-state growth agenda with the full support of its Board of Directors based on the thoroughness of the plan. New Directions offers a number of strategic planning products: the Strategic Planning Primer, the Visioning Workbook, on-line and paper surveys, and facilitation skills training as supports for organizations desiring to do some of the planning on their own. To learn more about our Strategic Planning Services, Contact Us.