Unlike public corporations with access to investment capital, most privately held businesses fund their own growth through profitability of current products and services. Strategic planning brings your management team into consensus on customer opportunities most ripe for investment and growth. Your River Trip℠ planning can also identify potential sources of internal growth resources, with a realistic sequence for implementing growth programs, without stealing much time from your already-packed calendars.

 

That’s the idea behind our Growth Management River Trip℠, customer-focused strategic planning, simplified. It’s a proven visual planning system developed specifically for management teams of growing privately-held businesses. With this approach, planning for business growth can be one of the most rewarding and enjoyable parts of a business career.

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In-Person and Online Workshop Agenda

There are tremendous synergies when everyone on the senior team uses a simple, common planning model, because the same approach can be used for strategy implementation teams, within all departments and for work groups.

 

• In the Missoula Chamber conference room you will receive a participant kit with an orientation to the planning model and five process maps, one for each of the planning processes. For online workshops, the participant kit will be mailed beforehand. No preparation is required.

• After introductions we’ll discuss your current approaches to growth planning and offer an
  overview of our “Growth Management River Trip” model. It simplifies planning and can
  guide your team from issues through strategic objectives, action plans and
  budgeting.

• The primary agenda topic is a confidential discussion of the “Crossroads Issues”
  which your and other like organizations face, especially those related to customers and profitability. We’ll conclude that conversation by clustering and prioritizing the issues identified.

• The next four process discussions actually use one cluster of typical Crossroads Issues as a case study, to demonstrate the next steps for addressing strategic issues.

• Finally you’ll discuss how to get started on your planning..

• The discounted fee for Missoula Chamber members is $450.

• No-fee access for four months is provided for monthly online coaching sessions, to assist you to get started on your planning.

 

This workshop approach incorporates what we’ve learned guiding management teams like yours in more than 40 industries to develop, update and implement growth plans for their business. It is particularly useful for privately held firms that grow talent internally.

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