Strategic Planning: StandBy - Support After Suicide

Status: Completed in October 2020

Client: StandBy - Support After Suicide

Background

StandBy Support After Suicide sought external consultancy support to undertake its next cycle of organisational strategic planning, with a view to consolidate and strengthen its unique identity and position as Australia’s leading provider of suicide postvention services.

Beacon Strategies was previously engaged by StandBy a few years ago to support the development of their former strategic plan, which guided the organisation's consolidation and growth between 2019 and 2021.

A year into this plan, several objectives were achieved earlier than expected due to changes in StandyBy’s external operating environment. This led the StandBy team to review their direction and objectives to better reflect their current operating environment.

Approach

Beacon Strategies undertook a structured multi-stage planning process to ensure that StandBy’s strategic plan was informed by both internal and external insights. Our 6-step strategic planning process consists of the following:

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Stage 1: Looking Internally

Captured lived experience perspective from StandBy’s lived experience advisory group
Captured the perspectives of several StandBy sites
Reviewed achievement against existing strategy

Stage 2: Looking Externally

Research and benchmarking process to identify key trends, issues and opportunities in the external environment

Stage 3: Preparing participants

Created a pre-recorded briefing webinar for participants to prompt early and strategic thinking

Stage 4: Facilitating the planning

Planned the session structure and format in conjunction with leaders
Facilitated a planning workshop with the StandBy team

Stage 5: Developing the product

Developed a new internal and external strategic plan document and tested the product with internal stakeholders

Stage 6: Supporting change

Presented the plan back to the StandBy team with advice around change management
Established a quarterly mechanism to support with strategy execution

Outcomes

Following the completion of this project in October 2020, Beacon Strategies delivered both an internal and external strategic plan for StandBy. See the document below:

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Further, you can download a copy of Standby’s Strategic Plan here.

Beacon Strategies offers a comprehensive and collaborative approach to planning through the six steps outlined above. Collectively, these steps help to ensure your plan is achievable, based on the best evidence available, stakeholders are engaged and are ready to be implemented! If you want to learn more, drop us an email at info@beaconstrategies.net.