Services
Facilitation & Strategic Planning
Using Collaboration to Design Your Path Forward
At Mission Matters, we believe the best plans are built together. Our Facilitation and Strategic Planning services help you create clear, actionable roadmaps that align leadership, staff, and stakeholders around a shared vision.
With a balance of structure and flexibility, we guide groups through meaningful conversations that surface ideas, build consensus, and turn aspirations into achievable strategies. Whether you’re setting a new direction, refining goals, or strengthening collaboration, we ensure every voice is heard and every step is grounded in your mission.
Our Facilitation & Strategic Planning Solutions Include:
- Developing a strategic plan that is elegant in its complexity—sophisticated enough to reflect the depth and breadth of your organization’s work while being practical and non-burdensome for staff
- Facilitating staff engagement in asynchronous and collective ways so teams and individuals can contribute thoughtfully and flexibly
- Conducting robust external stakeholder engagement through surveys and in-depth interviews to gather diverse perspectives
- Engaging board members as champions of your mission and as thought partners in strategic and future-focused topics
- Creating an accessible online resource hub for tools and guidance throughout all phases of the strategic plan, including implementation resources
Strategic Planning
A strong strategic plan isn’t just a document—it’s a roadmap for impact. At Mission Matters, we help you develop a realistic vision that inspires action and guides your work forward. Together with your planning team, we focus on:
- Setting clear priorities
- Identifying and addressing barriers
- Defining accountabilities and resource needs
- Establishing meaningful, real-world outcomes
The result is a strategic focus that is practical, visionary, and achievable—a plan that not only looks good on paper but can be lived out every day in service of your mission.
Facilitation
The way people work together matters. Our facilitation services are designed to help leaders, boards, and teams collaborate more effectively, resolve issues, and move ideas into action. Our ToP- and CTI-trained facilitators design and lead processes that maximize engagement and ensure every voice is heard. We support:
Focused Conversations—Structured discussions that invite all voices into meaningful dialogue, surface insights, and lead to clear conclusions.
Consensus Workshops—Dynamic sessions that generate creativity, build shared ownership, and align teams around big ideas and practical next steps.
Virtual Facilitation
Great meetings don’t have to happen in the same room. We design virtual facilitation experiences that keep people engaged, no matter where they are. Using interactive tools and platforms, we support board meetings, planning sessions, and customized workshops with features like:
- Consensus building
- Real-time information sharing
- Polling and voting
- Interactive dialogue and collaboration
With thoughtful design and skilled facilitation, your organization can bridge geography, build consensus, and keep important work moving forward online.
Learn how to best prepare for your strategic planning journey.