Grower Strategic Plan Creation and Training Engagement

Background

Do you know where your business is going? 

Are all your people on the same page? 

Does your business and organization have alignment on what you are trying to achieve? 

Do you daily actions take you toward the destination you want for your business? 

A tailored and effective strategic plan helps you answer all these questions.

Without a strategic plan, your business is left to drift with the ‘winds’ and continually be in reactive fire-fighting mode.

Strategic planning

  Product:

AGS is now offering a Strategic Planning Creation and Training consulting engagement product to help growers define, clarify, and educate their organization on a strategic plan tailored for their business.

In this service AGS consultants will work with your leadership team and key managers through a series of meetings, surveys, and collaborative working sessions to bring out what defines your vision, mission, strategic objectives and key result areas and the key performance metrics that will be used to track them. Further we will help you define the ‘system for managing’ for your business – the key meetings, roles, and data reports needed to insure the tactical decisions line up with the strategic plan.

 How It Works

Through a series of meetings, surveys, visits, and collaborative guided exercises you and your key employees will go through 4 phases of building out your strategic plan.

 

Each phase has specific sessions, data to review, exercises and outputs that are used and built upon in the subsequent sessions.

 

Phase

Description

Initiation and Discovery

In this phase we have discovery meetings with key staff to get the overview of your business and market as you see it. Current state and get some high-level indicators to tailor the strategic planning sessions for your business.

Strategic Planning Engagement Phase 1 – Vision and Mission

We will have dedicated 2-to-3-day training sessions and meetings where with your selected leadership team will take them through guided exercises to answer the questions about aspirations and culture. We will identify, define, and refine the strategic vision and mission for your business as well as identify your unique core values. This phase will clearly define the purpose and strategic vision and values for your business.

Strategic Planning Engagement Phase 2 – Strategic Intents, KRA, KPO and KPI

We will have a follow on dedicated 2-to-3-day workshop building on what was learned and decided in the first workshop with additional training sessions and meetings with your selected leadership team taking them through guided exercises to identify, define and refine the strategic intents, key result areas of your business, key performance indicators for those areas and the key profit opportunities.

Strategic Planning Engagement Phase 3 – System for Managing

This will be a 2-to-3-day dedicated workshop building on what was learned and decided in the first 2 workshops. The system for managing will specify and clarify organization roles, responsibilities, and decision-making framework.  Further we will define core values and a business value proposition.

Strategic Planning Engagement Phase 4 - Rollout Plan and Execution

In these key meetings, also 2-to-3-day workshops, we will tie everything together and identify the key regular cadence of meetings required to implement and operate according to the newly defined strategic plan. This would include which meetings need which data/metrics and at what frequency. Further basic agendas and responsible parties would be defined.  

 

Grower Questions and FAQs

How long does it take?
With typical spacing of meetings and time for the organization to absorb the whole overview process takes 3-4 calendar months for the basic discovery and creation of the strategic plan framework with 4 sets of dedicated meetings for training, collaboration and building out key ideas and artifacts for the business.
What do I get?
By the end of the engagement, you will have: 1) A written strategic vision and mission statements. 2) You will have defined your corporate core values and value proposition. 3) You will have identified from those your strategic objectives. 4) You will have defined your key result areas, as well as the metrics that will help you track your progress and goal performance. 5) You will have the high-level framework of your ‘system for management’ to help with communication flow, decision making and alignment in roles and responsibilities across the organization. This will include key defined strategic meetings, those responsible and the key data and needs for agenda. 6) Because your key leaders helped you build the plan you will have the core team aligned on these areas 7) Documents with all notes, findings and defined artifacts. 8) Employee clarity on direction and expectations
What does it cost?
Big name consulting companies can charge 100’s of thousands of dollars for this type of work. And many of those don’t have the key experience and capabilities related to our industry that we do with this potent offering. For a modest size grower, we will customize a quote for this offering, and it will be far less than the big-name consulting players. Ultimately the price is influenced by the size and complexity of your operation and amount of tailoring needed to our system. Our team will work with you to design an engagement price that is fair and reasonable to get the strategic plan you need for your business.
Grandpa didn’t use a strategic plan so why should we now that we are taking over the business?
Many grower businesses are family operations that pass from one generation to the next. The forebears typically had very good intuitive wisdom on running the operation no doubt and didn’t use many analytical tools and management systems like we can today. But those were simpler times. We live in a more complex and nuanced time where alignment across employees is more critical than ever to achieve business goals and needed efficiencies. Growers need ways to set goals and performance standards, delegate and then have methods of accountability to those goals and objectives. This is precisely what a strategic plan will do. Further, having and iterating a strategic plan increases the value of your business and honors, in a modern way, the heritage of family businesses that pass through the generations.

When Can I Start?

We can usually provide flexible timing. If you want to learn more or have an introductory call about this important new service for growers Contact us using this form.