Facilitation is intended to improve group effectiveness by overcoming internal dynamics and building on team strengths. Best practice facilitation planning requires understanding the client's expressed needs and desired outcomes, organizational culture, and historical experiences with facilitated working sessions. All facilitations involve planning to ensure effective and durable results.
The strategic planning process requires multiple phases to fully realize a strategic plan's benefits. Tapestry stitches facilitation, outcome management and benefits realization, and performance management to develop an actionable plan with measurable targets to monitor success. Strategic planning support is essential even if a strategic plan document is in place.
Performance management is integral to the success of any organization. Understanding and monitoring progress towards any target (HR, vision, objectives, operational projects, etc.) is the critical difference between organizations that succeed and those that struggle. The performance management approach is a well-documented best practice using outcome management.
Enterprise risk management includes aligning the strategic plan and vision to the various risks or issues which could be impacted by uncertainty. Understanding enterprise risks, including an organizational view on risk tolerance, is critical to managing the events that could influence success.
From time to time, organizations need a Health Check. This is a review and assessment of the organization against best practice topics such as HR, leadership, finance, risk, operations, and governance. Benchmarking the organization on a maturity scale in each topic enables focused effort to improve processes overall.
Development and improvement of governance structures, including governance charters, investment management, or board structures and bylaw reviews, can improve working within the organization across the many layers and levels. Improved governance intends to clarify communication, upgrade policies, and define organizational roles and responsibilities.