Improve Your Organization's Strategic Planning

Strategic planning can be a powerful tool for help organizations deal more effectively with a rapidly changing world. Proper strategic planning helps focus organizations on what's important, creates common purpose, goals, and values, and can be used to guide training and development, personnel, and other decisions critical to long term corporate success.

...if it's done properly.

Unfortunately much strategic planning is wasted, either because it's not done well, or is misunderstood. It's common for strategic plans to end up in the backs of desk drawers gathering dust, forgotten by all.

Robert Bacal has created two helpcards to help you understand and use the strategic planning process. The first outlines an extensive model, and explains elements like role, mission, defining values, goal setting, and more. The relationships of strategic planning to tactical planning, performance management and personnel decisions is also dealt with.

The second provides suggestions for how to make your strategic plan IMPORTANT, so it serves as a dynamic living guide for action in the organization.

We recommend you purchase both since they complement each other.

As with all our material, you can preview these online before you purchase, and they are available in printed, laminated format, or in instant electronic delivery format, if you are in a hurry.