Visual Strategy: Strategy Mapping for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

Part 4Facilitating Strategy-Mapping Workshops

We three authors remember the challenges of getting started as facilitators of strategy-mapping sessions. Indeed, we are reminded of these difficulties as students and practitioners learn from us how to use the strategy-mapping approach. This fourth part of the workbook therefore sets out a number of facilitation tips we believe will be helpful in facilitating successful strategy-mapping workshops. We will discuss these in the following sections, concluding each point with a facilitation hint. These hints will then be brought together at the end to serve as a useful reference point.

Practice Makes Perfect

Probably the most significant suggestion for facilitators that we can make is to practice ...