Facilitating Change

Strategic Planning

Our expertise has shown effective strategic planning is a deeper effort than a one day retreat which produces a plan with numerous action items that are never enacted.   Is your strategic plan sitting on a shelf?

Janus Development Group customizes your strategic planning experience to meet concrete objectives.  There should be a tangible return on the investment of your time, money, and resources in planning.  We utilize processes to release synergistic thinking enabling people to articulate creative solutions for the numerous challenges organizations face in today’s changing environment.  Participants own the plan they have helped create thus ensuring greater success.  A sample of the process techniques JDG employs are:

The Implications Wheel®

Building consensus in a rapidly changing environment is one of the biggest challenges one faces as a leader.  The Implications Wheel, a strategic exploration tool developed by futurist Joel Barker enables users to rapidly identify potential long term positive and negative implications or consequences that come as a result of change.  Using a highly visual, graphic structure, The Implications Wheel® encourages non-linear thinking and brings together divergent points of view to optimize the results of decisions.   The process allows for dialogue rather than debate so all sides are heard fairly – an important element in building ownership in a new future.

Graphic Facilitation

Janus Development Group uses a graphic facilitation approach which makes meetings come alive and memorable for participants.  Since the majority of people are visual learners, graphic facilitation focuses the idea generation allowing people to be directly involved in the process and thereby owning the outcome. Using The Grove Strategic Visioning™ process, our meetings unleash the creativity and wisdom of the group to develop ideas for future success.  Clients comment they have never attended such successful meetings citing the graphic facilitation as the key component.  Our graphic facilitation processes are tailored to the client’s goals for the meeting or retreat.

“Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world.”

~  Joel Barker, Independent Scholar and Futurist

For more information on our services, please call at (703) 827-8727 or email at info@janusdevelopmentgroup.com