Strategic Planning & Decision Making

How do you and your team members feel about strategic planning?

  • Are you embarking on the process for the first time, ready to make it a priority?
  • Is this a regularly scheduled process you go through every few years?
  • Do you struggle with knowing whether the time you spend and the plan you create will make a real difference in guiding your organization? Or will it end up buried in a digital file on a computer with little practical application?

Strategic planning can be time-intensive. That’s why I became a Certified Decision Coach with Allovance.

With Allovance in my toolbox, my clients easily save 50% or more time with strategic planning by simplifying and improving their organizational decision-making process. I use Allovance to help my clients prioritize options, pursue their purpose, and support their vision with confidence to various stakeholders.

Decision making throughout an organization and its functional areas expands beyond the typical strategic planning narrative and includes any requirement to choose between options. This may include capital improvement decisions, resource allocations, market strategies, etc.

What Is Allovance?

Allovance is a cloud-based capital allocation and strategic prioritization software designed to add transparency and reliability while building true collaboration and buy-in. Certified Decision Coaches guide and facilitate stakeholders through the five-step decision making process within Allovance that includes: Strategize, Compare, Quantify, Score and Select.

How Allovance Helps Strategic Planning

As a Certified Allovance Decision Coach, I can guide you through a process that is:

  • Structured: Reduce uncertainty by providing a process that is consistent, structured and yet incredibly flexible.
  • Objective: Transform subjective input into objective criteria to help streamline the decision-making process.
  • Repeatable: Improve efficiency when every process is consistent, documented, and repeatable for any number of scenarios.

Through our time together, I will help you down forge a path that will include some or all of these outcomes, depending on how broad your desire for detail.

  • A data-rich snapshot of your priorities and objectives all on one page
  • A detailed strategic alignment summary
  • Weighted priorities and objectives
  • Scales and metrics that quantify objectives
  • A score for each potential project that differentiates their strategic value, complexity, and urgency
  • Customized reporting and easily digestible information – not reams of paper or endless excel sheets
  • A portfolio of projects that meet your needs, priorities and budgetary considerations while bringing the team together around what should get done and why

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