~Person-Centered Strategic Planning~

"It’s hard to accomplish anything without a plan. Whether you’re coaching a football team, cooking Thanksgiving dinner, or running a small business, you need a strategic plan."  

~Forbes, December 26, 2011

Paths to Possabilities brings inspiration, collaboration and clarity to business possabilities.

Strategic Planning is an organization's process for defining their strategy to accomplish specific goals and objectives. ... often covering multiple years, addressing both short- and long-term goals, and outlining the means to track progress and measure success. Strategic Planning allows an organizations to:

1. Establish broad programing for defining and achieving the objectives of an organization and implementing its mission

2. Establish the pattern of an organization’s response to the external environment over a period of time

3. Provide the necessary action steps to make a difference in vital areas concerning development

4. Accomplish the mission and vision of the organization

How should small businesses approach strategic planning?

Developing a strategic plan might seem like an overwhelming process: there are hundreds of books dedicated to the topic of strategic planning for businesses.  A key element to successful strategic planning is using facilitator(s) focused on guiding your business through a process that optimizes conditions for success. Facilitation is more complex and critical to your planning process than you may realize. Therefore, your consultant should have solid facilitation skills, which include the ability to rapidly identify personality types and comfort levels within your team, so that they may adjust the discussion flow to ensure that all perspectives are heard.  An effective facilitator will tailor questions and dialogue with each stakeholder in order to bring out the best in that person, while also increasing the value of and relevance of the process.

PATHs to PossAbilities removes the stress from strategic planning.

Ruth and Lori, with PATHs to Possabilities, are known as experienced, skillful, open, flexible and connected facilitators. Best yet, they bring a fun, friendly style to the strategic planning session, along with a heaping helping of passion to the process of strategizing around business solutions and action steps to maximize your business success!

Strategic Planning with PATHs to PossAbilities incorporates the values of Person-Centered Planning, as well as includes a supportive group of people with the knowledge and expertise needed to develop a supportive “think tank” for your business. Your dynamic consultant team will include you, your business stakeholders, your “think tank” and Lori and Ruth. Together we will generate clear plans that will steer the organization smoothly. Paths to Possabilities will capture your business goals, needs and action steps in detail, making your business development plan easier to tackle.

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a few of our satified customers:

“The planning process went great and was so inspiring and exciting.”

"On behalf of our Board of Directors, thank you so much for your hard work facilitating the PATH in English and in Spanish for our community.”

“Mil Gracias!" Jeannette Cordova - Executive Director of El Grupo Vida

While a business will rarely achieve all the precise goals established in their strategic plan, research clearly shows that you will come much closer to reaching your business goals with a strategic plan, than if your business does not plan at all.

Develop a comprehensive strategic plan for your business this year, next year and every year.