Strategic Planning Solutions
Why Strategic Planning?
Strategic planning is crucial for business growth because it provides a clear roadmap for achieving long-term objectives. By setting specific goals and outlining the steps needed to reach them, businesses can effectively allocate resources, anticipate challenges, and adapt to changing market conditions. This process ensures that all stakeholders are aligned with the company's vision and objectives, fostering a unified direction and purpose.
Additionally, strategic planning helps identify opportunities for innovation and improvement, enabling businesses to stay competitive and responsive to industry trends. Overall, it is an essential tool for guiding a company towards sustained success and GROWTH.
Strategic planning serves as the backbone of a company's efforts, ensuring that every action taken is purposeful and aligned with the overarching goals. It transforms vision into reality, providing a structured approach to navigating the complexities of the business environment.
Strategy is about
making choices, trade-offs;
it’s about deliberately
choosing to be different.
making choices, trade-offs;
it’s about deliberately
choosing to be different.
Empower your business
& your team with our Strategic Planning Solutions 
Here are the key benefits of our workshop sessions:
Collective input: Bringing together diverse perspectives from different departments and levels within an organization to generate a more comprehensive strategic plan.
Creative brainstorming: Dedicated time and space to brainstorm new ideas and approaches to address challenges and opportunities.
Alignment and consensus: Building consensus among team members on key strategic priorities and decisions.
Clearer vision and direction: Facilitating a shared understanding of the organization's vision, mission, and values, leading to a more focused strategic plan.
Enhanced engagement: Actively involving participants in the planning process, fostering a sense of ownership and commitment to the strategy.
Improved communication: Creating a platform for open dialogue and discussion about critical strategic issues.
Skill development: Providing opportunities to learn and practice strategic thinking skills.
Faster implementation: By involving key stakeholders early on, our workshop sessions can expedite the implementation of the strategic plan.
Discover the seamless flow of our workshop sessions!
Our four-step strategic planning process
Insights from Our Participants: Workshop Feedback
Explore the valuable feedback from our recent workshop participants, highlighting their experiences and takeaways.
Henkel Construction Company
Our strategic plan had not been updated for many years and I wanted to engage a professional “outside” entity who could provide guidance to our organization. ADVANCE IOWA’s systematic process to help lead our team through the experience and stimulated valuable discussions about many important aspects of our business. Ultimately, with their leadership, we were able to develop several key deliverables that will help successfully propel us forward.
Kent A. Brcka
President
First Security State Bank
Executive Vice President
Cetek Inc.
The Cetek Inc. team visited our team in late January, 2025. We are excited to continue our strategic management exercise in our next session, where we will be focused on an examination of the business' internal and external environment and setting overall business objectives.
Todd Hutcheson
Director, ADVANCE IOWA
Interested in long-term success?
Business is not always easy, and developing strategic solutions is an art.
We understand that growing a business requires strategic plans that provide value, which is essential for achieving long-term success. That's why we've enhanced the quality and number of strategic workshops and training sessions offered to business owners and their employees. In addition to our classic workshops and training sessions, we now offer tailored in-house solutions.
Our proven strategic planning materials and training methods help identify unique challenges and opportunities, enabling each business to align their operations with their vision. This not only improves decision-making processes but also effectively enhances overall performance.
Contact us for your strategic planning needs. Ask Todd about his popular in-house strategic planning sessions!
Let's talk.
8120 Jennings Drive | Cedar Falls, IA 50614
319-273-4692 | info@advanceiowa.com
Todd.Hutcheson@uni.edu
Janell.Crow@uni.edu