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Strategic Planning
for Remote Organizations

How to achieve a strategic plan that aligns your team for the year ahead — without meeting in person.

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Strategic Planning
for Remote Organizations

How to achieve a strategic plan that aligns your team for the year ahead — without meeting in person.

Achieve Cross-Functional Collaboration Remotely

If you run a remote business or an organization where your team is spread out geographically or only connects virtually, it can be exceptionally difficult to ensure everyone is marching to the beat of the same drummer.

One of the sad realities of remote work is people are busy, and they tend not to read everything that's thrown at them — even when it’s as critical as the preparation for the year-end strategy.

Failing to adequately reflect on where you are going can feel rudderless. People begin working in different, sometimes opposite, directions.

The wrong employees are hired, and the wrong products are developed. Ultimately, this can lead to stagnation, increased turnover, and decreased profits.

Most organizations stop their yearly planning after selecting their priorities for the year. Learn why this is a mistake and how to define the expectations of each strategic priority further to keep these top of mind throughout your organization.

How do you promote cross-functional collaboration to give the organization an opportunity to evaluate if the selected priorities are, in fact, achievable? Especially across a remote team?

A definitive guide and leadership toolkit for preparing and leading your organization and your teams through remote planning that aligns your team and guides everyone’s day-to-day decisions.

Course

Strategic Planning for Remote Organizations

Imagine achieving a strategic plan that inspires optimism in the organization and motivates everyone to contribute to it daily.

Imagine having everyone engaged and involved in strategic planning – without needing to meet in person.

What if you had your team’s full attention and input to get the input you need to make important decisions?

Imagine having an engaged, lively group discussion by using our “warm up” and “engagement” tips to break through those virtual walls.

Imagine everyone on track, bought in and moving toward a common goal that everyone has put effort into.

You can achieve a comprehensive strategic plan without meeting in person.   Are you ready?

Course Leader

Meet Your Expert

Course leader Shane Spraggs Shane is an advocate for understanding “why.” He works with organizations to unlock the potential of their teams and is passionate about improving how people work.

As a leader in his community, he formed the 700-person Okanagan Product and Project Management group, which allows regional businesses to share project & product management, business strategy, and operations best practices.

Shane also teaches and mentors project management at the local university. He’s run thousands of planning meetings in person and over a distance while running operational teams at Disney and several startups.

Shane is a Productivity Consultant who advises Fortune 100 clients to optimize their remote operations and be more productive in or out of the office.

 

This course is based on the new book on remote work, co-authored by Cynthia Watson and published by ForbesBooks.

What will you learn in this course?

Strategic Planning for Remote Organizations
will be packed with tips that will transform your ability to plan and engage teams over a distance.

Whether you work in an office, have a hybrid setup, or run things from a beach, we'll show you the tips to getting what you need to move your team, your project and your organization forward.

This three-session course, held over three weeks, will show you how to:

  • Have a purpose, vision, and/or mission statement that is well understood by your team.
  • Have a set of core values that will guide your decision-making process.
  • Do your best to understand your customers, staff, market, competition, and performance to date before starting.
  • Establish strategic priorities for the year ahead for the organization, then department and individual priorities for every member of your team.
  • How to meet less and accomplish more.
  • Establish a plan to execute. Check-in on the execution monthly.
  • Review your strategy quarterly and make course corrections as new information becomes available.

What's Included?

Included with your course are these useful extras we use daily to make our customers and employees more effective.

  • A downloadable workbook that you’ll be able to follow to become a Strategic Planning expert.
  • A complementary chapter of our Forbes book on using retrospectives to increase engagement.

What will you learn in this course?

Strategic Planning for Remote Organizations will be packed with tips that will transform your ability to plan and engage teams over a distance.

Whether you work in an office, have a hybrid setup, or run things from a beach, we'll show you the tips to getting what you need to move your team, your project and your organization forward.

This three-session course, held over three weeks, will show you how to:

  • Have a purpose, vision, and/or mission statement that is well understood by your team.
  • Have a set of core values that will guide your decision-making process.
  • Do your best to understand your customers, staff, market, competition, and performance to date before starting.
  • Establish strategic priorities for the year ahead for the organization, then department and individual priorities for every member of your team.
  • How to meet less and accomplish more.
  • Establish a plan to execute. Check-in on the execution monthly.
  • Review your strategy quarterly and make course corrections as new information becomes available.

What's Included?

Included with your course are these useful extras we use daily to make our customers and employees more effective.

  • A downloadable workbook that you’ll be able to follow to become a Strategic Planning expert.
  • A complementary chapter of our Forbes book on using retrospectives to increase engagement.

Contact us today, to bring this course to your organization

Strategic Planning for Remote Organizations

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