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For family owned businesses transitioning to the next generation

  • Identifies next generation’s weaknesses in tactical and strategic thinking for private mentoring.

  • Provides a forum for maintaining strategic direction during the transition to the next generation.

  • Provides a forum for the next generation to lead while previous generation is present.

  • Provides an “independent outsider” to facilitate the development of strategic thinking for the next generation.


Use strategic planning to create your future

Strategic planning is creating a vision of the future and managing toward that expectancy. It's operating under a vision, mission, strategy umbrella that focuses the organization's effort.  It's an effective process for aligning your short-term decisions with your long-term goals.

Strategic planning answers the three big questions:

  • Where are we today?
  • Where do we want to be in the future?
  • What should we be focused on today, in order to make it more likely we will be where we want to be in the future?

It is a simple process with an incredible power to energize your organization and bridge the gap between long-term vision and day-to-day tactics. One way to visualize the process is as a pyramid with vision forming the stable base and rapidly evolving tactical action steps at the top.  Pyramid


Strategic planning makes an immediate impact

  • It builds true teamwork by developing consensus, commitment, and trust.

  • It delivers dramatically higher results by establishing personal accountability, specific measures and action steps, a commitment of team members and company resources, and a stable investment platform.

  • It reduces stress through a shared vision, mutual trust, and tools for effective delegation.

Strategic planning strengthens the leadership team

  • It forces the leadership team to think about the big picture - look at the business through the eyes of the CEO

  • It helps team members communicate with and listen to one another's fears, insights, and dreams.

  • It makes everyone focus on what is truly important to the organization, prioritizing efforts and the use of resources.

  • It gets the team on the same page - a shared visualization of where the organization wants to be within 5-10-30 years.

  • It results in proactively changing the status quo with an implementation process that keeps people on schedule, on track, and regularly held accountable for 30-60-90 day action steps.

Strategic planning can keep the organization from being overcome by events

  • It provides regular “stakes in the ground” meetings that force the leadership team to reevaluate where they are relative to where they want to be and if their action plans are changing status quo quick enough.

  • It provides a quarterly forum for recognizing opportunities/threats and developing responses with appropriate urgency.

  • It provides a forum for discussions and resolution of issues that don’t lend themselves to operational meetings.


Customer feedback

This planning process was excellent. We set some exciting five year visions and established some very specific actions that can make it work. John did an excellent job of facilitation.” Louis Glunz, President - Regis Technologies


What's the quickest path to these benefits?

Since 1991 organizations have discovered Myrna Associates' strategic planning process - Total Quality Planning -  is the secret path to success. They have found it to be a powerful and affordable tool for coping with major business transitions ranging from near bankruptcy to sudden, massive, and uncontrolled growth.

Our premium strategic planning is the quickest, most reliable way to implement strategic planning. It is a proven process, professionally facilitated, with prompt delivery on the documented plan TQP Service

If our premium service doesn't meet your current needs, use our how-to book to implement the process yourself. TQP Books 


Be proactive and create the future you'll have to live with

Back in 2003 where did you think you'd be today? Where do you want to be by 2013? Columbus didn't reach the new world by standing on the stern of the Santa Maria and setting course from its wake.

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