Is Your Business Seeing the Growth It Needs?

Unlock the vision, talent, and productivity of your business with strategy consulting.

Big Perspective. Clear Steps. Undeterred Success.

Get beyond the day-to-day tasks of keeping your business afloat. Our proven process defines your business’ ideal strategy for success and the steps to make it happen.

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Leverage the StratOp Process

Strategic & Operational Planning For Businesses & Organizations

StratOp facilitation empowers you to identify what must be tackled today to move your business forward. These crucial changes do not happen by themselves.

Thrive Hound is trained and certified to be your guide.

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At OtterBox, we've used the StratOp process to grow from $10 million to over $1 billion in revenue. It is how we do business. StratOp aligns everything and everybody, across the entire business. I don't know of anything like it.
Curt Richardson, Chairman & Founder, Otter Products LLC & Blue Ocean Enterprises

StratOp for Business

Energize Your Vision. Maximize Your Profits.

Our facilitator will springboard your team’s ideas to the next level.

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Our Facilitation Strategy

How We Manage Your Progress with StratOp

Strategic, subtle changes are made depending on the need of your organization. The following outlines the typical approach utilized for helping businesses thrive.

1 Strategizing With Your Key Leadership

The initial step is a three-day off-site gathering with your leadership team. This intensive workshop is based on purposeful problem-solving. It offers essential time away from the trenches.

And, it utilizes carefully crafted questions and discussions to help your team unpack the big picture questions and day-to-day struggles your business faces. Leading to high-level perspective and a stronger team, it aligns your key leadership around a common goal.

2 Drafting Your Detailed Action Plan

Following the initial gathering, your leadership team will be equipped to begin installing your strategic (“Strat”) and operational (“Op”) action plan. During this six to seven week period, our facilitator will work closely with you, offering continued instruction and guidance as needed.

This ensures your plan’s key performance indicators are centered on your business’ core customers and top priorities.

3 Regroup. Review. Launch.

At the end of this six to seven week period, Tom will regroup with your leadership team and the new cross-functional teams you have created. During this one-day process, we’ll review and refine your progress. This comprehensive step involves ensuring a realistic timeline and budget. Ultimately, you will have a finalized plan ready to launch and effectively implement.

StratOp now becomes your management system for your strategic initiatives.

4 Implementation and Continued Support

As you launch and manage your new plan, we’ll equip you to execute monthly and quarterly reviews. This essential training helps you stay on track and on budget. The end result is a self-sufficient process for leading, managing, and measuring your progress.

We Tailor This Process to Meet Your Needs

Thrive Hound applies variations of this strategy to your type of business and market.

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Our Facilitation Process for Businesses

StratOp’s Six Phase Process

We Use A Proven Process To Map Your Business' Success.

Your business’ key leadership brings a vast array of skills to the table. They also bring their unique personalities, visions, and goals. For your business to thrive, your entire leadership needs to be aligned around a single mission.

During our six-phase process, we lead over 25 development sessions. Each step engages the entire group and promotes teamwork. Together, you’ll develop a clear plan for long-term undeterred success.

Perspective

Today’s Reality: Where are you now?

Planning where you’re going without knowing where you are is like shooting at a target with your eyes closed. Rather than aiming blindly, our facilitator guides your team to outline your business’ existing strategies and market opportunities.

We’ll assist you in defining what’s working and identifying what’s not. This high-level perspective will give you the foundation to move forward, uncovering the “naked truth” of your current reality — the good and the bad.

Planning

Tomorrow’s Future: Where are you headed?

What are your business’ most strategic opportunities? How do you track your success? If your business is truly thriving, what does that look like and how do you get there?

Through the StratOp process, you address these issues and develop a cohesive strategy to move your business forward.

Action

The Here and Now: What’s important right now?

When it comes to business, talking is great, but results are what matter. While we address long-term goals, we also help you define what needs to be tackled immediately.

We help you define: Who is responsible for what, a reasonable timeline, how your business will celebrate success, and how you’ll stay on track.

Structure

Your Foundation: How can you best achieve your goals?

Structured changes to support your new plan might include hierarchy, protocols, systems, culture, and people development. Using the same old approach will give you the same old results.

Our StratOp facilitators help your top leadership discover necessary changes and outline how you can implement them appropriately.

Management

Current Progress: How are you doing?

StratOp is not only a planning process. It becomes an integrated system for you to lead and manage your business’ strategic initiatives.

We equip you and your management team with the necessary skills to ensure ongoing implementation and effectiveness. That’s what brings results.

Renewal

Continued Growth: Have you discovered larger trends and insights that require a major course correction?

Continued growth requires continued improvement. Following four quarters of reviews, we recommend gathering for another off-site StratOp session. During this meeting, we’ll review several key sessions used during the initial StratOp process.

This extended review allows your leadership team to once again step away for a high-level perspective on what’s working and what adjustments need to be made. With Tom’s help during this annual renewal, each team member can fully participate without distractions.

Stop Hoping Your Business Survives.

Lead Your Business to Thrive.

Our StratOp Facilitators are ready to help you. Let us equip your business with the tools to lead your market.

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