CYOC® Facilitation Services

Strategy Development Group, Inc. as a licensed CYOC® facilitator provides strategic decision-making facilitation customized to meet your needs. We are dedicated to empowering business leaders to find new answers, explore uncharted possibilities, and discover a greater Vision of themselves and their businesses. The following packages include facilitation, session preparation and follow-up, handouts, minutes, and between-session consultations with the business leader (when appropriate). Many of these services are also available on an hourly basis.

1. Strategy Assessment
How is your business positioned and where is it currently heading? Answering these questions is, more often than not, an eye-opening experience. Each member of your leadership team participates in the Strategy Assessment, which consists of a questionnaire and follow-up 30-minute teleconference.  The Strategy Assessment is not an evaluation of the competence of the Management Team or a measurement of the company’s success, or lack thereof. It is a diagnosis of the strategic health of the company, a strategy "snap shot" that reveals whether there is agreement on the company’s current course.

The results of the Strategy Assessment are presented in a four-hour meeting with the Management Team and includes:

• Clear identification of your current strategic positioning.
• Insight into your strategy and where the company is heading.
• An accounting on how much consensus there is on the company Vision or whether resources are being invested in conflicting directions.
• A preliminary list of your Strategic Choices.
• An overview of the strategic decision-making process and recommendations on how to proceed.

2. Strategy and Vision Development
Strategy focuses your Management Team’s attention on where you want the business to be five to ten years from now. Operations are the specific steps required to get it there. Strategy is doing the right work; Operations is doing the work right.

We work with your Team to define the right work for your company by developing a sustainable business strategy and its resulting Vision. Development of your strategy includes the Strategy Assessment and consists of four, four-hour decision-making sessions with the leadership team. A Competitive Analysis and a Market Forecast are completed by your team and provide data for the process. Many companies are familiar with how to set goals and objectives. However goals and objectives should only be developed after the company’s competitive advantage has been clearly defined and articulated.


3. Comprehensive CYOC® Four-Stage Strategic Plan
Sail ahead of the competition by engaging in CYOC's comprehensive, four-stage strategic decision-making process. The result is a strategic plan that is integrated into the company budget process and provides detailed guidance to all levels of management. In addition, your team will have all the tools they need to hold each other accountable quarterly and update the strategic plan annually. Comprehensive strategic decision-making consists of the Strategy Assessment and ten, four-hour sessions with a licensed CYOC® facilitator.

Stage I: Strategize. Develop your business strategy and Vision.
Stage II: Focus. Define your company Mission by focusing in on your target market.
Stage III: Assess. Assess current operations and create five-year Goals.
Stage IV: Operationalize. Create the Objectives and Action Plans that Turn Your Vision into Action.

4. Implementation Support
We are also available to support you during the implementation of your strategic plan in the following areas:

• Executive coaching and consulting
• Budgeting
• Financial planning
• Benchmarking

REQUEST A PROPOSAL
To request a proposal or more information on the above services, please email paul@strategydevelopmentgroup.com

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