Strategic Planning

KST Consulting facilitates sessions of Boards and Staffs for setting a course you're your organization's future. From environmental scanning to strategic planning, from crafting a compelling vision to defining strategies for your success, KST Consulting can help lead the path to your desired future. Strategic planning is giving way to strategic evolution of an organization's plans. This means it's an ongoing process that requires continual attention - not something done every three to five years that results in a nicely bound document that sets on a shelf.

Scanning the environment for trends and issues affecting your organization is a critical element to your success. A careful analysis of all sectors affecting your organization: customer; competitor; economic; technological; social; political; legal and geophysical is needed. These elements must be considered separately as well as together to determine how the commonalities blend together, resulting in a whole picture that is more important than the sum of the parts. A strategic radar model is adapted from Dr. Karl Albrecht's The Northbound Train: Finding the Purpose, Setting the Direction, Shaping the Destiny of Your Organization and referenced in the Environmental Scan Report, Mapping the Future of Your Association, a 2006 publication of ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership.

Eight Super Trends and their implications for your organization have been researched by ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership. KST Consulting is available to help you determine the impact these super trends may have on your organization

From reading periodicals to surfing the web and watching your competition while remaining carefully attuned to your customers' wants, needs and responses to your current deliverables is a vital part of strategic planning. This is a function that is best done frequently with designated environmental scanners convening on a regular basis to compare findings and determine implications for the organization. At times, this step can be informal and periodically it is necessary to formally convene decision makers in a facilitated planning session.

KST Consulting works collaboratively with you to determine where your organization is in its lifecycle and planning horizon. We listen to your current challenges and work together to set an agenda to move your organization to the next level in the scanning and planning cycle involving appropriate stakeholders in the process.

Karen Tucker Thomas, CAE, founder of KST Consulting, has been facilitating the strategic work of several boards for nearly two decades. She understands the realities of resource capacity of small and mid-sized organizations as well as the strengths of larger organizations. She'll work with you to design a methodology that is suited to your organization’s size and resources.

Contact KST Consulting for more information about how you can take advantage of our expertise and services for the next stage of growth and development of your organization. Your future is begins with decisions you make today.

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"Karen has many skills as a leader. She has been extremely effective with volunteer leaders and boards doing board development and strategic planning. Her work in recent years has focused on change. Boards hired Karen to be a change agenda and through her ability to straight talk and clearly articulate the facts, she was able to help the boards better understand the situation faced by their organization."
Rachael Murray Rakestraw
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Population Action International