Strategy

"Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action" Peter Drucker

"Whether it’s broke or not, fix it – make it better" Bill Saporito

• Sport and physical activity
• Missions and visions
• Business planning

Sport and physical activity
Sport and physical activity strategies are essential tools for:

• Levering external funding
• Prioritisation
• Allocating resources
• Clarifying individual responsibilities
• Anticipating tomorrows opportunities and threats
• Ensuring all your team is pointing in the same direction
• Measuring effectiveness.

Whether you are new to this process or are looking to update an existing strategy, our approach to developing your successful strategy is to ensure the full involvement of your team; conduct effective consultation and apply innovative thinking.

Missions and visions

"A vision can focus, direct, motivate, unify and even excite a business to superior performance. The job of the strategist is to identify and project a clear vision" John Keane

Managers are realising that agreement around a basic vision can help organisations succeed. In addition there is a consensus that before a vision can be followed that 'the team' should be able to answer the question, What is our business?, or put another way, What is our mission?

We can help you demystify the difference between visions and missions; help you kick start this process and also develop fully fledged statements. Effective vision and mission statements are those that involve your key employees. We are able to run tailored, facilitated workshops for up to 16 participants which are an extremely effective method of securing participation and all important 'buy in'.

Business planning
Any new venture or feasibility study is likely to require some form of business planning. We have experience of business planning for :

• a new service within an existing facility
• a completely new facility
• multi-site sport and leisure trusts.

Our plans provide realistic income and expenditure projections based on our in depth knowledge and experience of other operators performance.