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Create Shared Vision

Address Deep Issues

Catalyze New Directions

Develop Clear Plans

Build Consensus

Launch Action

Generate Team Spirit

ToP Strategic Planning is recognized worldwide by thousands of organizations. It systematically and quickly addresses key issues and results in a focused plan. You get innovative strategies and people leave the planning sessions ready to implement the action plans. Our process contains 4 basic steps.

• Practical Vision – creating a shared vision for the group's future
• Underlying Obstacles – identifying underlying issues blocking accomplishment
• Strategic Directions – focusing ideas for new directions
• Action Plan – developing a specific, practical plan of action.

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Strategic Directions

The third task in ToP strategic planning is to create Strategic Directions to deal with the obstacles and move toward the vision. As soon as you become aware of an obstacle, you get a hint of what can be done about it.

Strategic directions become, not things to wish or dream for, but things which must be done because of the situation. When you know that wasteful spending priorities prevent you from success, you immediately get some clues about what must be done.

Effective strategic thinking goes beyond the latest good idea and responds to the obstacles. Strategic directions represent judgments and decisions made by the group which will put it in an advantageous situation in the future. Strategies are never something that are performed, but, rather, a crucial arena of action - a pathway towards breakthrough. To get rid of the British in India, civil disobedience was Gandhi’s strategy, not his vision for the future.