STRATEGY
StrategY ANd Planning
We distinguish between strategy and strategic planning. Strategy is a future focused and creative endeavor that sets the course towards your vision for impact. In designing strategy you make serious choices about where you’ll focus your organization and how you’ll deliver successfully. Planning is a data-informed and iterative process in which you implement, build new systems and capabilities, learn, and adapt. We bring boards and leaders together to do the meaningful work of vision building and strategy development. We also help you assess your capacity for change and what it may take to get where you want to go. Because there is no successful strategy without change, disciplined work, and the building of new capabilities.
GLP consults, facilitates and coaches leaders so your organization or school excels in strategic thinking, capacity building, planning and decision-making.
We partner with you to:
Develop a fresh approach to clarify who you are, what you value, and why that matters
Understand the environment in which you operate, and anticipate the opportunities and challenges ahead
Build vision, shared institutional purpose, and a compelling “call to action” that guides your organization in policy and practice
Design a strategy that clarifies what you will and won’t do in order to thrive — recognizing you must be creative as you move into an unknown future
Establish indicators of progress and metrics of success, so you can plan, assess performance and adapt your efforts to the outcomes that matter most.
Managing Organizational Change
GLP helps organizations—and their people—understand, embrace and adjust to change. Whether the challenge is to design and learn new ways of doing what you do, evaluate your talent needs, build new capacities, or radically rethink your mission and organizational structure, GLP will help navigate this new terrain with sensitivity, foresight and an intimate understanding of your organization’s culture. We’ll give you the honest advice you need to lead, make decisions and communicate well so your organization thrives.
We partner with you to:
Assess your organization’s readiness and capacity for change
Build vision through an inclusive process
Assess the opportunities and threats that matter — and develop the muscle to anticipate, embrace, and test adaptations to mission, strategy, and organization
Create the conditions for a successful change initiative
Identify opportunities for experimentation and early wins, so you can build momentum for what’s next
