Tired of strategic planning efforts that take 9 — 12 months to complete and still don't achieve their intended results? Would you like to develop your strategy in 1/3 of the time and see immediate implementation success? Discover how participatory and strengths-based strategic planning and implementation processes can both shorten the time to develop your strategy and ensure widespread buy-in and engagement across the organization — ensuring successful implementation and delivering desired results quicker than traditional strategy processes. Learn about and experience key components of strengths-based and high-engagement planning processes like appreciative inquiry and open space. Examine how "SOAR" (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results) analyses can be exchanged for traditional "SWOT" analysis. Through exploration of case studies, experiential activities, leading practices, and dialogue, participants will understand how to create more enthusiasm, commitment, positive action and faster results for their strategies.

You will learn to:
- Have a basic understanding of Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
as an approach, process, and framework for strategic
planning and implementation.
- Experience the "definition" and "discovery" phases of
the 5D-AI Process.
- Gain practical skills and experience in planning your
own strategic planning process.
- Understand how other organizations have utilized AI for
strategy development and the results they achieved.