The Company consultant will facilitate the process of defining strategic goals and current realities.  The discrepancy between current reality and strategic goal generates tension that is used to identify the action steps that must be taken to go from current reality to the desired strategic goal.  This is a very powerful and effective method for creating a strategic plan.  The end product of completed structural tension charts can be made into a poster that is placed on a wall to maintain the tension needed to keep the organization advancing toward its strategic goals.

*Adapted from The Path of Least Resistance for Managers by Robert Fritz, Berret-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, 1999.