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You Have a Strategic Plan, Now What?
Do you have a strategic plan yet to be implemented and sitting on a shelf? Your staff and board spent countless hours of time and money (if you hired a consultant) to develop a strategic plan, but now you are struggling with what to do next. After we complete the...
Aspirational Research: A Key Component of Your Strategic Planning Process
We have developed a four-step process for completing strategic plans for clients. You can learn more about our four-step process here. The second step of our strategic planning process, “Analyze the Organization and Landscape,” is where we spend most of our time to...
Building a Dashboard for Rural Leaders
Carly Fiorina said: "The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight." Lutheran Services in America is working to do precisely that! Lutheran Services in America partnered with Transform Consulting Group (TCG) to create a data dashboard to...
Step 4 of the Strategic Planning Process: Create the Strategic Plan
3 Strategic Planning Tools to Create Congratulations! You have journeyed through the four steps of our strategic planning process, and you’re ready for the final step: Create the strategic plan. (We covered steps 1, step 2, and step 3 in previous blogs). The goal of a...
Sharing Your Organization’s Story with Video
As the Communication Manager at Transform Consulting Group, storytelling is one of my favorite parts of this job. I love sharing what our clients - fellow Transformers - are doing nationwide to impact children, families, and communities. We've talked a lot about how...
Step 3 of the Strategic Planning Process: Facilitate Consensus
How to Reach Consensus on Your Strategic Plan We are continuing our blog series on strategic planning by focusing on Step 3 of our 4 Step Strategic Planning Process: Facilitate Consensus. Read more about our previous strategic planning blogs in this series here, here,...
Step 2 of the Strategic Planning Process: Analyze the Organization and Landscape
At Transform Consulting Group (TCG), data informs everything we do when working with clients. It should be no surprise that our #datanerds will spend most of our engagement assessing your data to inform the overall direction of your plan. It’s a critical step in the...
Step 1 of the Strategic Planning Process: Collaborate to Determine What We Need to Learn
Do you ever find yourself on a path with no direction? A strategic plan may be what you need to put you on the path to success. A strategic plan is essentially a road map for an organization to reach its goals and strategies to accomplish those goals. We help programs...
How to Implement your Strategic Plan
In a featured blog series about strategic planning, we highlighted when to create a strategic plan and the 4 steps of strategic planning, including detailed blogs for each step (Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, Step 4). But what happens once you’ve completed those steps? Too...
