Strategic Action Planning Now Setting and Meeting Your Goals

ISBN-13: 9781574442335 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 201 str.

Cate Gable

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A step-by-step guide to strategic planning which outlines team-based planning in four steps. Gable's techniques provide detailed guidance into planning processes; strategic skills; recognition of challenges; consideration of goals; monitoring and measurement; and implementation tips.

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"As anyone who has attempted to facilitate strategic planning processes knows, the hard part is that every situation is unique and the unfolding of events produces a great deal of "messiness". In Strategic Action Planning NOW!, Gable strikes a workable balance between the need for a simple, basic structure for planning steps and the equally pressing need to be responsive to emergent complexity." -Susan L. Harris, Ph.D., Leadership and Organization Development Consultant

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List of FiguresIntroductionBeginningsIs This Book for You?Review of Book Part One: Pre-planning PreparationMy Team, My SelfWhat is Your Planning ProcessWhat is Your Team?Who is Your Team?Who Are You and What is Your Role?What is Your Team Culture?Exercise One: Creating AgreementWhat if?SummaryBeginning ConceptsSo Why Plan? Why Worry?Where Do You Fit in Your Company's Planning Process?What is Strategy?What Are the Qualities of an Effective Strategy?What is Action?NOW! A Brief Interpretation of TimeExercise Two: Influences From the PastBecoming a StrategistFrozen Strategy vs. Fluid InsightInformation Harvesting: Trend-spotting Without the 'Popcorn'Exercise Three: Influences From the FutureWhat's on Your Reading List?CHI: Clarity, Honesty, IntegrityExercise Four: Nurturing Your CHIThe Courage to CreateStrategic Action Planning-Four StepsOur Planning MethodologyThe ChallengeThe GoalThe Strategic ActionMonitoring and MeasurementSummary: The ProcessPart Two: The Planning ProcessSeeing the ChallengeWhat's Wrong With This Picture?Identifying Challenges: An OverviewTask One: Capturing ChallengesExercise Five: What Needs Fixing?Sample Planning Items: Brainstorming ChallengesTask Two: AlignmentExercise Six: Alignment with ManagementSorting the ChallengeConnection and DissectionTask Three: Discussion and Analysis Task Four: Grouping by ClustersExercise Seven: Clustering the ChallengesSample Planning Items: Challenge ClustersTask Five: Prioritization and Selection of Key ChallengesExercise Eight: Prioritize and Finalize ChallengesSample Planning Items: Final ChallengesSummarySetting the GoalWhat Makes a Good Goal?Exercise Nine: Transforming Challenges into GoalsSample Discussion for the Goal Formulation Step and Sample Planning Items: Challenges and GoalsSummaryDevising the Strategic ActionPreparationExercise Ten: Influences RepriseDevising Strategic ActionExercise Eleven: International InsightExercise Twelve: On Target ActionFinal Check Mop-upSample Planning Items: Goals and Strategic ActionsSummaryMonitoring and MeasurementMonitoring: What and WhyMonitoring as a Communications ToolMonitoring as Standards for PerformanceMonitoring as Guidance for Decision-makingMonitoring as Strategic Action FeedbackHow Do You Measure Success?Exercise Thirteen: How Do Measure Success?Sample Planning Items: Adding Monitoring ToolsSummaryPart ThreeImplementation Tips OverviewThe Planning DocumentThe Communications PlanThe Implementation TeamThe Information and Communications MöbiusThe Last WordFuture PerfectEvaluating Your Team's Planning ProcessExercise Fourteen: How Did We Do?Future PerfectPostscriptAppendicesList of ExercisesSequential Overview of the CGSM™ Planning ProcessSample Planning ItemsGlossarySelected ReadingBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Cate Gable is a writer, poet, and business consulta President of Axioun Communications International, Ga strategic marketing and planning for clients both in the Axioun’s clientele includes high-tech start-ups, Fortune nonprofits, and small businesses. Prior to founding Axioun, Gable was Marketing Direcl Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Marketing Manager at 'Western Division. Additionally, she has served as D Information both for Ohlone College, an institution of 1 the Silicon Valley, Fremont, California, and for the Fedt of Los Angeles. Gable has published widely in a variety of fields.