Efficiency Squared

Strategy & Leadership

Strategic Planning Workshop

A facilitated, two-day workshop to define your organization's North Star and walk out with a clear 1-, 3-, and 5-year roadmap — vision, mission, objectives, and initiative portfolio all tied together.

Strategic Planning Workshop
Format
Live virtual, in-person, or private on-site
Duration
2 days
Level
Practitioner
From
$1995.00

About this course

Course overview

Build the roadmap your team can actually execute.

Strategic Planning is what separates organizations that move with intention from those that just respond to whatever lands in their inbox. This two-day facilitated workshop takes your leadership team through a proven planning cadence — mission and vision alignment, SWOT and environmental scan, goal setting with measurable objectives, initiative prioritization, and a year-by-year roadmap that's realistic enough to survive contact with the real world.

The workshop is deliberately hands-on. Leaders arrive with ideas and assumptions; they leave with a written plan, prioritized initiatives, owners, and a governance cadence for tracking progress. The facilitator guides the conversation, keeps politics in check, and ensures every major decision is anchored to evidence — not just loudness.

Learning outcomes

What you'll learn

Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.

  • Define or refine a clear, tested mission and vision statement
  • Run a disciplined environmental scan (SWOT, PESTEL, competitive analysis)
  • Translate strategic goals into measurable objectives
  • Prioritize initiatives against capacity, value, and risk
  • Produce a 1-, 3-, and 5-year roadmap with owners and checkpoints
  • Establish a strategy governance cadence that holds up between workshops

Audience

Who it's for

  • Executive teams planning an annual or multi-year strategy cycle
  • Functional leaders aligning their group with enterprise strategy
  • Founders and growth-stage leaders formalizing their operating plan for the first time
  • PMO and portfolio leaders tying strategic goals to project delivery

Course structure

Syllabus

A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.

Module 1

Day 1 — Orient

  • Mission, vision, and values alignment
  • Environmental scan — SWOT, PESTEL, competitive landscape
  • Customer and stakeholder insight synthesis
  • Strategic themes and trade-off framing
Module 2

Day 2 — Decide

  • Setting goals and measurable objectives
  • Initiative identification and prioritization
  • Resource capacity and sequencing
  • Roadmap, owners, and governance cadence

Public cohorts

Upcoming sessions

Secure your seat in a live, instructor-led cohort. Private team deliveries available on request.

No public cohorts on the calendar yet.

We run this course as a private team cohort on demand, or you can be the first to know when the next public date drops.

Frequently asked questions

Still have questions?

Is this a certification course?
No. It is a facilitated, applied planning workshop. You walk out with a plan, not a credential.
How large should the participant group be?
Typically 6–14 people from the leadership team. Smaller groups move faster; larger groups need more structured breakouts.
Can you run this using our own data?
Yes. For private cohorts we gather your relevant inputs ahead of time (financials, market data, current initiatives) so day one starts with real context, not a generic case study.

Bring this training to your team

We deliver private cohorts in-person and online, tailored to your operating context.