Mission
Cool Strategies™' mission is helping mission-minded organizations achieve their calling through improved strategic planning and decision making. We accomplish that through innovative systems that obliterate the speed and price barriers which have typically prevented many organizations from taking advantage of topflight expertise. Our intent is not to simply help companies grow or make more money. Our clients must have a drive to bring spiritual, physical, mental, and/or emotional health and renewal to society.
With significant experience actually leading both nonprofit and for profit companies, Cool Strategies offers practical, time-proven ideas, not consulting clichés. At our core, we help craft organizational health through fast and focused engagements. You walk away with clarity and direction. Guaranteed.
As noted in our mission statement, Cool Strategies™ encourages organizations to reach their goals through "improved strategic planning." We desire to see our clients attain world-class results by exhibiting recognized "best practice" behaviors, day in and day out. This is best explained in an article we wrote on how to create a "Strategic Agenda™" for your organization.
We also support improved decision-making throughout the organization. Decision-making impacts:
- Balancing tactical versus strategic demands
- Making incisive hiring and firing decisions
- Immediately resolving issues versus allowing them to effectively simmer
- Building new competence versus leveraging current capabilities
Many others could be mentioned. Suffice to say the key to building long-term organizational success and creating lasting change comes from building and supporting the capacity and competencies of those leading the organization, and fundamentally that begins by improving the decisions they make.
In short, we believe being prepared for the journey is as important as the destination.
Vision
If Cool Strategies' mission gives us direction and focus for our work, our vision drives our passion. That passion, succinctly stated, is embedded in a desire to impact the strategic thinking of one thousand organizations in a single year through highly focused consultations, speaking engagements, and written materials.
We won't get there by overstaying our welcome. Our challenge lies in finding ways to bring understanding to your situation without using traditional, time-consuming methods. We must get in, leverage your time and effort wisely, and then get out of your way.
That doesn't mean we don't care about you, or that our work is simply a numbers game! Indeed, our business model and approach is in response to what we believe you want and need from us: strategic focus, objective perspective, clarity and direction, decision support. But when it comes to actually following through on the decisions and plans you've made, many clients want to manage that process themselves.
Impacting 1,000 organizations will only happen by being valuable in one, and then another, and another. So we flex, and consistently look for ways to be effective. . .however you choose to engage us. That leaves the structure of our interaction entirely up to you.
Our guess is . . . that's exactly where you want it.
