Strategy development and planning processes
We guide teams through strategic planning, work planning, and implementation processes to help you turn visions into clear goals and actionable plans with indicators for measuring results and processes for holding yourselves and your partners accountable. We draw on technology, analysis, and consultations to validate your team’s plans and help you implement them.
Approach
Cynara’s approach to strategy development and planning processes is an extension of our facilitation approach, drawing on practices such as Emergent Strategy and principles of Mutual Aid. We aim to create spaces where ideas and decisions can emerge from the group and in doing so, the group guides the development of the strategy, vision, focus, and actions. We use a general process to guide the development of a strategy, while also recognizing that these processes are iterative and non-linear.
The best plans allow time and space to move among the various phases as new information, ideas, and realities emerge.
Read more about our approach to facilitation here.
Accolades: Strategic Planning for the DC Abortion Fund
We led the DC Abortion Fund through an eight-month strategic planning process. We designed and facilitated a strategic planning workshop with the 13-member Board of Directors and guided them in development of strategic priorities, implementation plans, and indicators for monitoring success. We also conducted interviews and focus groups with stakeholders to get their feedback and created an online, collaborative work plan for Board members to hold each other accountable in implementing the plan.
“Lindsey did an incredible job managing an eight-month strategic planning process for our all-volunteer organization. She kept us on track, helped us hone in on our values and priorities, and made sure we left with the tools and documents we needed to meet our goals over the next three years. Our team particularly appreciated her flexibility, expertise in different facilitation and information-gathering techniques, and quick turn-around with different pieces of the project.”