Senior Faculty - Strategic Planning and Vision

Your programme needs a strategic vision people can align behind, not a mission statement nobody remembers. Building one takes protected time. Your team is busy, competent and reactive. Decisions get made on whatever landed that morning, because there is no agreed sense of where the whole thing is heading.

A day on setting that direction, checking it holds up against your team and your stakeholders, and turning it into something people can act on.

• Articulate a vision for your service that connects to its core purpose, not just to this year’s targets.
• Surface the values your team actually holds, and test whether your stated vision matches how the service behaves.
• Run a SWOT analysis that names uncomfortable weaknesses honestly, rather than listing strengths and vague distant threats.
• Map how external stakeholders see your service, and what they need from it that nobody has thought to ask them.
• Communicate your strategy so a colleague could explain it accurately to someone who was not in the room.
• Use our CLIMB methodology to turn the vision into a clear action plan, so it shapes what the service does next week.