Strategy and participation

Almost every organisation has a strategy. The question is whether it actually lives by it, or whether the strategy is a document sitting in a drawer and helping no one. When a strategy does not work as a living tool, decisions are made on the go, usually according to whatever is most urgent. The organisation then needlessly loses its long-term potential to fulfil its mission.

How this service can help

You lead an organisation or a team and decisions pile up faster than you can respond to them. Priorities shift, important things give way to urgent ones, and at the end of the year you find that you spent it firefighting and never got to development. A strategy exists, but no one goes back to it in day-to-day work. Meetings are full of operational issues, and there is no place where the team can step back, decide what really matters and agree on a direction.

Our support is for any organisation that wants a deliberately designed management system instead of making every decision ad hoc and fighting fires in crisis mode.

What changes

  • You make decisions proactively and have a clear system that lets you respond to any opportunity or challenge that comes along.

  • Meetings get a rhythm that keeps the strategy running and also strengthens belonging and trust within the team.

  • Because you return to the strategy regularly, the organisation can learn and refine its direction step by step, instead of having to start strategic planning from scratch every few years.

Who the service is for

We work with organisations across the public and non-profit sectors and business:

  • Teams and smaller organisations that want a clear direction for fulfilling their mission and a working system of meetings
  • Ministries, public offices and cities developing a strategy for a whole territory or policy area
  • Universities and other public institutions that want to manage deliberately rather than ad hoc
  • Companies that want a deliberate system for developing their potential

It does not matter whether you have three people or three hundred. We adapt the scope and format to where you are and what you need.

How it works

The exact form of our work together depends on your needs. We usually work in two modes.

  • For teams and organisations, we can create a strategy in two to three workshop days. You leave with a finished one-page visual strategy and a system of meetings that brings it into day-to-day work.

  • For ministries and cities, we guide you through the whole process of developing a strategy, including the participation of relevant stakeholders. This is a longer collaboration lasting several months, depending on your needs and on the timelines of the projects within which the strategy is developed.

How we work

  • We start from your strengths and develop what already works.

  • We involve management and whole teams in the process, which builds belonging and trust.

  • We work in an agile way: a strategy is always a prototype that can be adjusted after the first review.

  • We build your skills and confidence. The goal is for you to be able to run the management system yourselves once our work together ends.

What you get

At the end of our work together you will have:

  • A one-page strategy canvas that brings together your mission, your direction in the form of goals, a team aligned on priorities, and concrete activities in one place.

  • A system of meetings with a clear rhythm and format that keeps the strategy alive in day-to-day work.

  • For larger ministry or municipal strategies, also a complete strategy document, outputs from stakeholder participation and other supporting materials.

What comes next

A strategy works when you return to it regularly. Once the management system is set up, we can continue in several directions:

  • Regular strategic supervision for management

  • Facilitation of your key strategic meetings and gatherings until the new rhythm settles in

  • Evaluation that checks whether the strategy is being fulfilled and where to go next

You can of course work with the system on your own. We leave you equipped to manage it yourselves.

Case studies (in Czech)

Interested? Get in touch. We can start with a free, no-obligation consultation.