Facilitated Strategy Session

Help Botanical Garden of the Piedmont face their biggest challenges with a facilitated strategy session that gets the right people together to brainstorm and map out the path forward.
Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
Charlottesville, VA, USA

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Posted June 17th

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What we need
  • Expert third party advice on process or managerial changes, geographic or programmatic expansion, potential pivots, or general strategic planning
  • Facilitation of an intensive, one-day strategic planning session with staff and/or Board
  • Note: If necessary, a follow-up strategic planning session may be scheduled
Additional details

Our organization has recently considered a SWOT Analysis and plan to begin Strategic Planning in September. I am interested in learning more about the process and methods for Strategic Planning so I can be efficient and creative during this process.

What we have in place
  • We currently have a SWOT Analysis, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have a recent Business Plan, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,465 , allowing us to have more funding for our educational programming to serve our community.

We are finishing up a Feasibility Study and hope to begin our first Capital Campaign next Fall. A Strategic Plan coupled with the SWOT Analysis will help the Capital Campaign planning.

Project plan

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Prep: Distribution of Prep Materials
  • Organization provides relevant background materials to make initial meeting more productive
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Milestone 1: Background Call
  • Professional and Volunteer Manager in charge of the session engage in a 30-minute phone call
  • Goals of the call include answering any preliminary questions the Professional may have and agreeing upon the goals and structure of the Facilitated Planning Session
  • Professional sends any additional due diligence questions ahead of Facilitated Planning Session(s)
  • Professional distributes an outline or itinerary ahead of Facilitated Planning Session(s) (as necessary)
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Milestone 2: Strategic Planning Session
  • Attendees include Professional, Organization Executive(s) and/or Board Member(s) involved in decision or strategic planning
  • If necessary, a follow-up session may be scheduled to address issues that may arise and require additional due diligence
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Botanical Garden of the Piedmont
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Jill T.

Executive Director

Our mission

The mission of the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont is to invite all community members and visitors to engage in nature, to educate and inspire through the beauty and importance of plants, to advance sustainability, and to promote human and environmental well-being.

Testimonials

Tom is amazing to work with! What started out with the mutual idea that we were just having a phone call became a full blown project because the original conversation generated a conversation with more questions than answers. Tom guided me through many different avenues of exploration and the final result has provided me with better insight into where we are as an organization and where we're going from perspective different from one that is totally immersed within the organization. It also helped me understand better how the process of strategic planning serves as organization. I appreciate Tom's expertise and generosity of spirit as well as his genuine interest in our organization. Thank you Tom for being a Catchafire volunteer!
Jill T.
Jill T.

Executive Director

Facilitated Strategy Session Project

These folks are great. I was mainly helping them better define who they were for purposes of setting some measures. but in the process I think we landed on some other good issues and challenges
Thomas (Tom) C.
Thomas (Tom) C.

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