Value of Engaging in Our Strategic Planning Process
At NorthStar Education Partners, our strategic planning process aligns your vision, resources, and efforts towards impactful and sustainable outcomes. Here’s what you can expect when you partner with us:
Our consultant teams, staffed with content experts and skilled facilitators, elevate community perspectives and introduce innovative solutions. Our facilitation ensures all voices are heard and valued, creating a collaborative and inclusive planning process.
We thoroughly analyze your internal strengths and external environment, leveraging insights from hundreds of past engagements. This enables us to identify opportunities, address challenges, and establish a solid foundation for strategic decisions.
Using our liberatory design approach, we create strategic plans that are inclusive, equitable, and deeply aligned with your organization’s values. This method fosters meaningful participation and collaboration, particularly from those most impacted by systemic inequities.
We develop strategic plans that are both visionary and practical. Our plans include specific goals, timelines, and metrics to ensure accountability and track progress, with detailed implementation steps and systems to translate strategy into tangible results.
Our strategic planning process ensures lasting change by integrating sustainability into your strategic goals. We provide direct capacity and implementation support, including leadership coaching, team development, and resource alignment, to drive real results. Our financial sustainability plans guide organizations towards long-term stability and resilience.
How We Help:
Engage your team in defining your vision for the future, establishing long-term goals, and making hard strategic choices that position you for the future
Hone your financial strategy to ensure you are positioned for long-term financial sustainability
Build a roadmap that ensures your strategic plan translates into results
Receive executive coaching to guide and lead change
Our Strategic Plan Framework
Our field-tested strategic plan framework guides our support for clients, ensuring the development of cohesive and comprehensive strategic plans.
We begin each engagement by forming a diverse design team that engages those closest to the challenge and disrupts traditional hierarchy. We then engage in a series of design workshops to answer a series of interconnected questions:
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What is your North Star?
Why you exist, your deepest held beliefs, and the impact you seek to have
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Who do you serve?
The people and communities you seek to serve, the challenges / barriers they face, and the causes for these challenges / barriers
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How will you succeed?
The unique services, model, and strategy that will allow you to make progress towards your North Star
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What capabilities do you need?
The core knowledge, skills, and expertise you will need to succeed and sustain your work
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How will you work together?
The culture, org structure & systems, and people practices that will support living your values and strengthening your impact
We combine this deeply collaborative, community-driven design process with insights we bring to the table from working across the country to develop durable solutions and transformative strategy.
Our Strategic Plan Process
Our strategic planning process is designed to create impactful and sustainable outcomes for our clients. Here’s how we do it:
Establish commitments to honor cultural traditions, attend to healing, elevate diverse perspectives, and disrupt harmful practices.
We then form a representative guiding team comprised of diverse stakeholders from within your organization and the broader community. This inclusive approach ensures that multiple perspectives are considered, fostering a sense of ownership and commitment to the strategic plan.
We then lead a series of design workshops to craft your strategic plan. These workshops are collaborative and interactive, allowing participants to engage deeply with the process. Through these sessions, we co-create a strategic vision, define goals, and develop actionable steps to achieve them.
Following the design phase, we facilitate implementation workshops to ensure that the strategic plan translates into tangible results. These workshops focus on developing detailed implementation steps, aligning resources, and setting up systems to track progress and ensure accountability.
Throughout the process, we employ liberatory design principles to notice and reflect on ourselves and the systems within and external to the organization. This approach helps us to identify and address systemic inequities, fostering a more inclusive and equitable planning process.
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