Strategic Planning

The Highlands Consulting Group LLC helps our clients perform better though our proven and structured strategic planning approach. Our strategic planning process enables our clients to develop their vision, mission, goals, objectives, and performance measures.

Strategy is about making choices and our clients rely on us to guide them successfully through the strategic planning process. Our consultants and highly skilled facilitators actively engage participants to contribute and share ideas, generate fresh ideas, as well as challenge the status quo. We adapt our approach to fit the culture of your organization and to create truly meaningful and useful strategic planning products and tools.

Some of our strategic planning activities include:

Visioning and strategy sessions (including retreats and off-sites)
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis
Environmental assessments
Organization-transformation processes
Performance metrics development
Communication and strategic plan rollout

The strategic plan is but one piece of an overall strategic program. Highlands Consulting has experience helping state departments of all sizes establish their strategic programs to ensure the strategic plan becomes a tool that improves the organization instead of a binder that sits on a shelf.

Some components of the strategic program we have helped our clients with include:

Action Plans – Converting your strategic plan into action
Contracts for Performance – Managing your department via the strategic plan
Plan Updates – updating the plan mid-cycle based on changes to the environment and external influences
Performance Monitoring – Tracking progress