Set Clear, Obtainable Stages
Your Strategic Plan is a much more detailed process toward targets than your Mission Statement.
Obtainable Stages keep the sense of achievement alive ttroughout the process.

Focus on Important Things
Many strategies or tactics make sense when looked at in isolation, but they may not focus on your key drivers.
Your Development Team should identify what will impact you most and plan not only for optimisation and growth, but also for handling any negative issues.

Strategy is about the Long-Term.
A hastily developed strategy may not consider long term outcomes, and may be costly or take time to reverse negative impacts.

An Independent Consultant
can suggest solutions that are not just the ones you have tried before, introduce ideas from other industries, give a fresh view on challenges facing your organisation and assist you to find a solution.
A Consultant can also design or manage your Strategic Plan and Policy Development process when team members' time is at a premium elsewhere.

Build your Development Team
However, Strategic Planning is not just a project completed by an external expert.
Once your Development Team have the staged strategic targets in place, they will have learnt the tools to maintain and update your Strategic Plan throughout the process until the target is attained.