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Strategic Planning – Vision & Business
It’s important to know where you are, where you want to go and how to get there. This involves strategic planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. The team at Crain Burns Associates will give you the tools and guidance to further your business success.

Strategic Planning Testimonial
Nancy Burns provided us with guidance for our Strategic Planning process. Since we are a relatively new Non-Profit Corporation, this was our first Strategic Plan. She educated us about the Strategic Planning process and then led us through efficient meetings to develop our Strategic Plan. She found ways to ensure that everybody was heard and involved in the process. As a result, we have a Strategic Plan that gives us clear direction for the future and we are all comfortable with it. Nancy’s leadership in this process was a key to our successful planning.
Rich Soenen
Chairman Youth Achievement Foundation Inc.
Business Performance Improvement
Your business can achieve and retain a competitive advantage by using the proven processes and tools that we give you.
- Suggesting profitable changes
- Measuring the potential enhanced results
- Following up to ensure that you are realizing the most for your investment.
With effective implementation of our methodologies, we will work with you so that your business will soar to a new level!
So whether it’s a big business, mom and pop operation, sole proprietor, or nonprofit, Crain Burns can be the partner that solves problems, coaches entrepreneurs or managers, and creates efficiencies to lead to more profits. The cost of Crain Burns services will hardly be felt once the results are seen.
Small businesses often suffer from knowledge deficiencies in marketing, bookkeeping, record keeping etc. The business owners THOUGHT they knew what they were doing, but were not getting expected results. Crain Burns can augment a business owner’s knowledge, so they can achieve better results.

Workshops/Performance-focused Facilitation
Workshops or Performance-focused facilitation sessions can help organizations discover the root cause of business issues and create a team environment to find the solution. Crain Burns representatives like to hear the positive aspects of your organization and help you explore ways to enhance your operations. For example, raising a level of communication and understanding among business departments can lead to more effective results. Workshops and sessions are customized, based on the particular needs of your organization.
Workshop/Performance-focused session examples:
–Leadership Communication & Assessment
–Business Performance Excellence
–Focused Strategic Planning and Visioning sessions
–Project Management
Leadership Mentoring/Strategic Planning
Whether transitioning into a new career or exploring a new strategic plan, we can help you review and analyze the situation and guide you to reach the results you would like to see.