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Intuitive Strategic Planning
A holistic approachto group problem-solving.
A new situation is always challenging, especially for groups of people.
Whether the newness is chosen (as in a group that wants to begin a new
initiative) or thrust upon us (as when a group is charged with
implementing a new initiative sent “from above”), people
feel burdened by the number of big and little decisions that suddenly
need to be made. In groups, being overwhelmed leads to
paralysis—which leads individual group participants to feel
guilt, to blame each other, and to defer decisions out of fear.
That leads to everyone’s being even more overwhelmed.
Counterproductive, to say the least.
Intuitive Strategic Planning works because it respects the entire human personality of each individual in the group. New challenges require both imaginative thinking and precise action, and it’s easy for groups to get caught between the two. Without a planning process, each individual in the group feels responsible for being both a bold visionary and a scrupulous micromanager—and in consequence, very little happens.
As the facilitator of the planning process, I help group members understand how they can use their own individual feelings, ideas, and abilities to work in harmony with those of the rest of the group to achieve their common goal. I create an environment in which people relax, think more clearly, and feel free to trust their own instincts. This way, all the individual members of the group can respond to the newness of the challenge in ways that feel appropriate and comfortable for them—which produces strategies, organizational structures, and divisions of labor that harmonize to produce real results. Intuitive Strategic Planning leads group members, gently but surely, to recognize their own unique potential within the group, and to feel confident in their ability to contribute to, and enjoy, the process of realizing the group’s goals.
Feeling empowered and energized isn’t enough, of course. To be successful, the members of the group need a way to preserve the insights they achieved during the planning process. To this end, I deliver the “hard copy”—a document that records the insights of the planning process, identifies what needs to be done, and formalizes each individual’s unique contribution to the work ahead.
In brief, Intuitive Strategic Planning involves:
Intuitive Strategic Planning works because it respects the entire human personality of each individual in the group. New challenges require both imaginative thinking and precise action, and it’s easy for groups to get caught between the two. Without a planning process, each individual in the group feels responsible for being both a bold visionary and a scrupulous micromanager—and in consequence, very little happens.
As the facilitator of the planning process, I help group members understand how they can use their own individual feelings, ideas, and abilities to work in harmony with those of the rest of the group to achieve their common goal. I create an environment in which people relax, think more clearly, and feel free to trust their own instincts. This way, all the individual members of the group can respond to the newness of the challenge in ways that feel appropriate and comfortable for them—which produces strategies, organizational structures, and divisions of labor that harmonize to produce real results. Intuitive Strategic Planning leads group members, gently but surely, to recognize their own unique potential within the group, and to feel confident in their ability to contribute to, and enjoy, the process of realizing the group’s goals.
Feeling empowered and energized isn’t enough, of course. To be successful, the members of the group need a way to preserve the insights they achieved during the planning process. To this end, I deliver the “hard copy”—a document that records the insights of the planning process, identifies what needs to be done, and formalizes each individual’s unique contribution to the work ahead.
In brief, Intuitive Strategic Planning involves:
- You and your group, who need to grow into a new challenge.
- Me, as facilitator, to guide and the process of freeing individual intuitions for the good of the group’s work, and to record the insights of the planning process for future implementation.
- Techniques that encourage the harmonious growth of each group member’s intuitive and logical abilities.
- The gradual unfolding of a vision and a plan.
- Hard-copy documents that your group will need to preserve, present, and implement your insights.