Coaching for Strategic Planning

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Coaching and Strategic Planning

Making aware of the current strategic position, search and creation of alternatives.

Coaching for Strategic Planning



"For the quarterback, the position is an absolutely critical element in a plan of action. The general who does not know where the enemy is about simply taking their men to death.?



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general art

The word strategy comes from the Greek Strategus (Stratos = army ageúr = driver) driver means armies. The art of the General.

Stratagene was the word used to describe the general. Strategy have meant the art of troops before the battle. In military terms, these definitions remain valid. The strategy precedes any tactical military provision.

This is equally applicable to any organization. The purpose of a good strategy is to be in the right place at the right time and with adequate resources to win.

The key to a good strategy is the position.



What it really means to establish a good strategy is to make it possible to be in the best position to achieve a goal or set of objectives.

Do we mean by Strategic Planning.

The coaching is very suitable systems perspective to understand and learn how to design the participatory Strategic Planning. It is part of its essence and learning system. The focus of their processes is essential to establish and, above all, apply with valid scores.

We understand that strategic planning is participatory inquiry, making

awareness and designing the best possible strategy to coordinate and sustain the priority actions to achieve the shared vision of the organization or team. Evidence can also be for one person.

Any system of Strategic Planning for that is simple, is useful because it fulfills the mission of providing methodological support, set a date and order to the strategic task. Specifies the organization's relationship with its surroundings in terms of the vision, objectives, strategies and action plan.

The environmental analysis is encrypted in identifying opportunities that are presented to the organization and the threats that loom in the future.

The internal analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the organization. This has to do with his ability to develop the field strengths in the area considered estratégica.Los organizational objectives are derived from the shared vision. They are guides to assess the degree of movement towards the achievement of the vision and provide the basis for determining the operational goals for departments and local organization.

The analysis of the action plan suggests strategies that rely on corporate decision-consciousness from its current position and future positions appropriate search and alternative positions.

Scenario planning Shell Group has pioneered and is one of the best examples of strategic planning and participatory.

Its main objective was the "microcosm?, The word that Wack and his fellow Planning mental models designated group of its managers. Senge also uses it in his" Fifth Discipline?. If before the planning function was to provide information to managers now is to help them rethink worldviews and their organization.

From the 80's working with mental models is a crucial part of the planning process.

The archetype of displacement of the load is very useful in strategic planning. We must focus on long-term fundamental solution, but without forgetting the short term - symptomatic solution. Which does not happen often. There are organizations that focus on the short term and then find it very difficult to support. And the reverse also occurs. Organizations that focus on care for the long term without short-term planning with the risk that it can be applied not reach.

2 displacement of the load

Recalls its principle? The principle of this archetype is the concentration in the fundamental solution. If the symptomatic solution is required we must use it temporarily but to work with the fundamental solution.?

For good and Participatory Strategic Planning process we propose four logical and repeatable sequences:

- Jack awareness of the current strategic position.

- Research and creation of alternative positions.

- Determine which alternative positions ensure better results.

- Completing the Strategic Action Plan.

Making aware of the current strategic position

These processes are very similar has .. Coaching Process For this reason we first review several concepts have very useful for the effectiveness of these processes.



Commitment to truth

The process of awareness of current strategic position must begin with a simple and profound strategy: the commitment to truth. The commitment to truth is not in the philosophical search for truth. It consists in the effort to avoid ways to limit or manipulate to fool, preventing view the positions that actually exist.

This presents a challenge to our theories and mental models about the way things are.

It means continually broadening our perception, as does the player, trying to cover all areas of play.

Reflection and inquiry

Another key strategy for raising awareness of the current strategic position is to apply the skills or talents, which they call science specialists from the action as Chris Argyris and divided into two broad classes: thinking skills and aptitudes to the inquiry.

Reflection is essential to slow down our thought processes and make them gain more consistency to form our mental models and see how they affect the organization.

The inquiry is very important in our direct interactions with others especially when dealing with complex issues and conflicting. It is very effective to realize your perspective based on the data on which it is based.

The inquiry and reflection will take on great importance in the coaching and learning systems perspective, especially for Participatory Strategic Planning.

Although many stop learning once they have graduated, people are truly learn to cultivate inquiry and reflection in action, the ability to reflect our thinking as we act.

Connecting all

When an organization discovers transcends self-interest has no power to run narrow. Those committed to a broad purpose come to have more ambitious goals. Achieve connectivity with others, with their environment, with the whole. And this gives them a sense of compassion characteristic of people high level of self-control.

The genuine and sincere sense of serving others, and therefore shared vision, has great power, can be key to find and alternative positions.

It's a jolt, an alarm clock for people to have to work together to prepare strategic action plan that will serve the organization to achieve what matters most and overcome what prevents it.

Phase 1 positional identification



Practicing according to coach leaders must help others to identify priority positions. Peter Drucker said "the objectives are needed for each area of ​​business performance and results which directly affect the survival and prosperity of the company. Identified the following positions as those that need a goal:

Market position, innovation, productivity, financial and physical resources, utility, performance and development management, performance and attitude of workers and public accountability.

Also weaknesses, positions or hinder you from achieving the objectives.

The order is not important, it may even look for opportunities while you go or resources risks or needs and vice versa. No matter the order, it should be noted when we encounter.

Search and creation of alternative positions



You start another inventory of what you can do to improve your current position.

How can improve or change the weak positions?

It is advisable to review the inventory and see what can improve, how we change it difficult to obtain the objective and, above all, with maximum flexibility to seek, identify and discover new resources, actions and values ​​that help to improve the position to achieve the desired results. So you need not worry if there are few alternatives or making a reassessment not feel dissatisfied. It's good to check that you do not have all the answers.

In another upcoming article will discuss how to determine what alternative positions ensure better results and the implementation of the Strategic Action Plan ..

Joan Palomeras

www.coachinglab.org

joan@coachinglab.org

Barcelona Spain 30/11/2008

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