Does your organization have insufficient budget to hire a professional to facilitate your planning retreat? An accomplished facilitator discloses the secrets of his profession. Take this workshop to learn facilitation skills and an excellent business plan structure that involves, motivates and inspires volunteers and staff to execute the plan.

Uncover the techniques of facilitation, and see how to avoid the hazards of being an “inside-facilitator.” Learn about the levels of a complete plan, one that combines wisdom and expertise throughout the organization. Observe the relationship between the four elements of a long-range plan and operational plans that foster focus and completion.

Participants will:

• Understand the seventeen contributions facilitators make
• Grasp the basic beliefs that make facilitating effective
• Know how to give instructions for exercises
• Understand and practice what it means to be detached and objective
• Identify four distinct levels of planning, and know who in your organization should participate at each level
• Understand how long range objectives differ from operational goals, and how to accomplish both
• Develop a list of key result areas to accomplish long-range objectives
• Outline a structure and process to develop operational goals
• Align operational goals to strategic initiatives and use them to form the annual budget

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Program Length

Half to full-day depending on your wants, needs and learning objectives.

Primary Audience

C-Level Executives, middle-managers, supervisors, marketing directors, and anyone who may need to facilitate planning because there’s no budget for an outside facilitator

Other Notes

The intent is to empower an individual(s) in a small or low-budget organization to facilitate their own business planning process.