Team-Based Strategic Planning: A Complete Guide to Structuring, Facilitating and Implementing the Process

Strategic planning is a critical part of running a business, but when you get a team of people together to plan, it can often become a confused exercise in grand visions without a clear process for establishing workable goals. This book is unique in providing both guidance for the actual content of strategic plans and techniques for how to plan in a team context. Readers will discover how to:

structure the process so it custom fits their company needs

effectively facilitate the process (keep meetings on track, train others in planning skills, document decisions made at meetings, present and communicate the plan)

use teams and teamwork smoothly and productively to create a far-reaching planand then to implement it

Features detailed guidelines for each step, dozens of flowcharts, and three self-contained "facilitators guides" to follow.

Book Description

"Strategic planning is a critical part of running a business, but when you get a team of people together to plan, it can often become a confused exercise in grand visions without a clear process for establishing workable goals. This book is unique in providing both guidance for the actual content of strategic plans and techniques for how to plan in a team context. Readers will discover how to:

* structure the process so it custom fits their company needs

* effectively facilitate the process (keep meetings on track, train others in planning skills, document decisions made at meetings, present and communicate the plan)

* use teams and teamwork smoothly and productively to create a far-reaching plan -- and then to implement it

Features detailed guidelines for each step, dozens of flowcharts, and three self-contained ""facilitator's guides"" to follow."