Strategic Planning
The Way
Do you try to do all your strategic planning by yourself, without an expert, objective facilitator? Does your current strategic plan allow you to test, refine and align each employee’s daily actions to your annual and future milestones? Is everything aligned to your organization’s core values?
At humanworks8, we help your leadership team create more than a strategic plan, we guide you in developing your company’s unique “way” of working. Built on the belief that Everyone Rises, we combine proven systems with our own learnings and experience gained through over 600 strategic planning sessions. Our framework and tools create and strengthen a system of disciplines, so your strategic plan is woven into everything from data to people practices.
Through expert facilitation and coaching, our team brings clarity to project priorities and frees leaders to put more energy into working on the business. We empower and support executive leaders in energizing core processes that produce confidence, consistency, accountability and results.
What We Do
Establish a Unified Vision
Define One Focus that will guide your organization’s Way forward.
Share it to speak with One Voice. Refine it through annual and quarterly engagements.
Execute a Living Plan of Action
Execute your vision through a shared Way of Working, or system for operating that includes disciplines for team meetings, measurables, problem solving and backstage processes.
Enliven Your Organization’s Core Values
Elevate existing values or create new values language through our Core Value Authoring Process.
Incorporate them into your touchpoints to enliven your culture.
Enliven Organizational Core Values
Your core values tell the world what to expect from you and show the world what’s important to you. They are the foundation of your strategic plan, and the basis of every relationship, the drivers of your decisions and your differentiator from the competition. Every organization has living core values, whether they’ve been successfully captured or not. Are yours clarified and communicated? At humanworks8, we help you discover your organization’s unwritten core values or elevate your existing values to energize your company culture and customer experience.
Listen
We lead interactive leadership and team discussions and storytelling sessions focused on what truly makes your organization unique, capturing the essence of your business success.
Author
We partner with organization leadership to derive meaningful values that already exist but haven’t yet been captured and brought to life through every People Touchpoint.
Build & Evolve
We guide actions for rolling out new values and create a roadmap for making the values part of your organization’s priority People Touchpoints, elevating hiring, performance and more.
Client Examples & Testimonials
Thanks to our partnership with humanworks8, we were able to implement a strategic planning process that trully fulfilled the demands of our entrepreneurial-minded business. From their authentic and engaging facilitation to their deep investment in understanding the unique needs of both our people and our business, the team at humanworks8 has consistently made us stronger. Our leadership team has never felt more aligned or more prepared for growth as we do now, thanks to humanworks8.
Jesse DePinto
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Front Desk
The team at humanworks8 has guided Penfield on an extraordinary journey to coalesce around shared values, align the talents of our team and focus on immediate and strategic, mission-driven priorities. humanworks created intentional space and opportunity for staff, board and leadership to identify our long-standing, shared values and unite around organizational challenges. Penfield’s core values provide a framework for how we work together, treat one another and interact with our constituents. With the guidance of humanworks8, Penfield has strengthened all its processes and culture around recruitment, hiring and retention of our most valuable asset-people.
Christine Holmes
Former President, Penfield Children’s Center
