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Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions

Idea Architects

While the debate rages on about whether or not strategic planning as a process is alive, dead, or on life support (see here , here , and here ), organizations must still craft strategy. People are used to planning processes with a designated end goal in mind: "Were planning for the next three years." Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: The Value of the Visual: Facilitation.

Idea Architects

If youre facilitating a meeting or process with pre-determined stages, you could do the same as described for the group norms. Projecting ideas being brainstormed as a Word document that someone creates in real-time often is more effective than flipcharting that rapid-fire output so long as you go back and cursor through ideas as a review.