Business Strategy Planning Workshop Facilitators

• Useful if you are rethinking your business plans
• Business Strategy Planning for Leadership Teams
• Based on the Business Planning of the most successful companies
• We start with where you are today
• Build with you a powerful and motivating vision where you want to be at a point in time
• Use gap analysis to find what it will take to get from one to the other

Sounds Simple? We make it as simple as we can.

Our tangible added value is working with you in the set up, sometimes we help with research and always in the facilitation of the workshops

What are the benefits of Business Planning the Rainmaker way?

• The team builds the plan themselves
• In the building of the plan they commit to the actions in it.
• Each team member gets the chance to voice their ideas
• All the ideas are focused to improve performance
• The team have a short easily communicated plan
• They can steer their progress using the plan towards their goals

What kind of activities and exercises will be in the workshop?

• Identifying the force fields working for and against your business
• Collecting everyones ideas as to how best to progress
• Ordering all of the ideas into a priority few
• Cascading actions and measures down the organisation
• Second level planning down to specifics

What will you walk out with after the workshop?

• A joint understanding of the current situation
• A jointly developed vision of where the team needs to go
• A shared set of values of how to manage the team
• A shared plan of how they will move to their desired state
• They will review the plan to steer their way to their goals

Who are the people who will actually facilitate the sessions?

Our team of workshop facilitators and business planners will work with you to ensure that your surroundings enhance your session.

We will also provide all the support you would hope to find from a team of first class facilitators.

Here are 3 of the facilitators who may support you

Kevin Howes: Workshop facilitator

Kevin has more than 25 years delivering bottom-line results in blue-chip companies and SMEs. Much of his experience and successes have been in the financial services, IT, telecommunications, automotive and pharmaceutical sectors.

His clients tell him they like his informal, practical, straight-talking approach and his knack of quickly pinpointing where performance can be improved. Happy to roll-up his sleeves and get dirt under his fingernails and build enduring relationships at all levels based on mutual trust, personal credibility and
a passion for achieving agreed results.

Kevin has achieved a solid track record of delivering results in companies like Accident Exchange, Barclays, Britax, BT Cellnet (now 02), DaimlerChrysler, EPSON, Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Legal & General, Lloyds Bank, Nortel, Oracle, Sankyo, TMP Worldwide, and Zurich Financial Services.

Allan James: Workshop Facilitator, Appreciative enquirer

During the last 25 years, Allan has delivered consulting and facilitation services to leaders and managers in a range of businesses in Hewlett-Packard.
This has included the telecom, electronics, consulting and IT sectors as well as functional organisations such as HR, Supply Chain and Marketing. Prior to this he worked in the FMCG, Retailing, Telecom and Construction/ Civil Engineering industries.

He has focused his expertise in a number of areas: business strategy and planning; organisation design; managing organisational change; executive and manager coaching; Team development; business process improvement.

What Allan’s clients have valued about working with him is his ability to help them cut through complexity and find a practical way of moving forward. He takes a practical approach in working with clients and it is backed up by a sound knowledge of relevant theory.

Chris Gamblin: Workshop Facilitator

Chris has been a Director and Senior Consultant for twelve years and has worked closely, and at senior level, with companies such as JCB, Mowlem, BAE Systems, and Vodafone.
He has worked with Government departments such as the MOD and in a variety of Housing Associations. Chris also partners with Manchester Business School and Liverpool University.
Chris was previously European HR Director for Northern Telecom, and UK (Sales) HR Director for Hewlett Packard. His experience is in Top Team alignment and Business Direction (Strategy Development). He is a specialist in leadership and culture development.

Who have we facilitated workshops for?

• Strategic Planning workshops for Microsoft Services in the UK.
• First workshop had 32 people in it, the next one 45 and the next 64 people
• All rated as hugely successful by the teams.
• Big impact scenario workshops for BP (the Castrol division)
• Strategic Planning for ALL of the people in a small software company
• Workshops for the managers in a fast growing Homecare company
• Process Improvement Workshops for a Printing company
• 15 Subsidiary Managing Directors for a Multinational Energy Company

What did our clients say of our services?

“The scenario and business planning sessions Rainmaker facilitated with the management team at Empower were powerful and illuminating. Their skill and experience in this area certainly helped us to move forward significantly towards where we needed to be”
Phil Lawler: Chairman of Empower Ltd.

If this program looks like something that would suit you…

What should you do now?

Call us now on: 0845 652 1955

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