Strategic Action Planning Now Setting and Meeting Your Goals

by Cate Gable

Overview

Filling the need for a "how-to," step-by-step guide to strategic planning, Strategic Action Planning NOW! outlines team-based planning in four steps. Gate Gable's techniques provide detailed guidance into planning processes, strategic skills, recognition of challenges, consideration of goals, monitoring and measurement, and implementation tips to help the reader begin the planning process almost immediately.
Written in three parts, the author provides exercises with each chapter. Part one covers the pre-planning stages, defining who and what your team is and what your teams' goals are. The second part goes over the actual planning, identifying the challenges and setting the goals for your team. The third and final part deals with post planning, implementation and evaluating your team's progress.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000153569
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/07/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures -- Introduction xiii Beginnings xiii Is This Book for You? xiv Review of Book Contents -- SECTION I: Pre-planning -- My Team, My -- What Is Your Planning Process? -- What Is a Team? -- Who Is Your Team? -- Who Are You and What Is Your Role? -- What Is Your Team Culture? -- Exercise 1: Creating Agreement -- What If? -- Summary -- Notes -- Beginning -- So 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? 23 What Is Action? -- NOW! A Brief Interpretation of Time 28 Exercise 2: Influences from the Past 30 Notes -- Becoming a -- Frozen Strategy vs. Fluid Insight -- Information Harvesting: Trend-spotting without the -- Exercise 3: Influences from the Future -- What Is on Your Reading List? -- CHI: Clarity, Honesty, Integrity -- Exercise 4: Nurturing Your CHI -- The Courage to Create -- Notes -- Strategic Action Planning: Four Steps -- Planning Methodology -- The Challenge -- The Goal -- The Strategic Action -- Monitoring and Measurement -- Summary: The Process -- Notes -- SECTION II: The Planning Process -- Seeing the Challenges -- What Is Wrong with This Picture? -- Identifying Challenges: An Overview -- Task 1: Capturing Challenges -- Exercise 5: What Needs Fixing? -- Sample Planning Items: Brainstorming Challenges -- Task 2: Alignment -- Exercise 6: Alignment with Management -- Notes -- Sorting the -- Connection and Dissection -- Task 3: Discussion and Analysis -- Task 4: Grouping by Clusters -- Exercise 7: Clustering the Challenges -- Sample Planning Items: Challenge Clusters -- Task 5: Prioritization and Selection of Key Challenges -- Exercise 8: Prioritize and Finalize Challenges -- Sample Planning Items: Final Challenges -- Summary -- Notes -- Setting the Goals -- What Makes a Good Goal? -- Exercise 9: Transforming Challenges into Goals -- Sample Discussion for the Goal Formulation Step and Sample Planning Items: Challenges and Goals 102 Summary 108 Notes -- Devising Strategic -- Preparation -- Exercise 10: Influences Reprise 115 Devising Strategic Action 116 Exercise 11: Intentional Insight 118 Exercise 12: On-Target Action 120 Final Check Mop-up -- Sample Planning Items: Goals and Strategic Actions 121 Summary 125 Notes -- Monitoring and -- Monitoring: What and Why 128 Monitoring as a Communications Tool 129 Monitoring as Standards for Performance 131 Monitoring as Guidance for Decision-making 131 Monitoring as Strategic Action Feedback 132 How Do You Measure Success? 133 Exercise 13: How Do You Measure Success? 137 Sample Planning Items: Adding Monitoring Tools 138 Summary 142 Notes -- SECTION III: Post -- Implementation -- Overview -- The Planning Document -- The Communications Plan -- The Implementation Team -- The Information and Communications Mobius -- The Last Word -- Notes -- Future -- Evaluating Your Team’s Planning Process 158 Exercise 14: How Did We Do? 160 Future Perfect 160 Notes -- Postscript -- Appendices -- A List of Exercises -- B Sequential Overview of the CGSMO Planning Process C Sample Planning Items -- Glossary -- Selected -- Bibliography -- Index

Editorial Reviews

"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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