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Creating Your Strategic Plan is the best-selling companion workbook to Bryson's landmark book, Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations. Whether used with the main text or by itself, this thoroughly revised third edition provides a step-by-step guide to putting strategic planning to work in public and nonprofit organizations. The workbook contains new and revised worksheets and additional material on readiness assessment, teamwork, stakeholder analysis, visioning, strategic issue identification, and implementation. Creating Your Strategic Plan covers each of the ten key steps of the strategic planning process and each step description includes sections on purpose and possible desired planning outcomes. The authors provide clear instructions for creating a strategic plan tailored to the needs of the individual organization. The workbook features practical advice to help readers: Refine mission and values Assess the internal and external environment Identify and frame strategic issues Formulate strategies to manage the issues Create, review, and adopt the strategic plan Assess the process From setting up the meeting room, to establishing a vision of-and plan for-the future, this indispensable workbook will take readers through every step of the strategic planning process.

Table of Contents:

• Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations; Contents; Preface to the Third Edition; Acknowledgments; The Authors; Part 1: An Overview; Introduction; The Context and Process of Strategic Change; Readiness Assessment Worksheets; 1: Interviewing People About the Proposed Strategic Planning Process; 2: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Challenges (or Threats); 3: Barriers to Strategic Planning; 4: Expected Costs of Strategic Planning; 5: Expected Benefits of Strategic Planning; 6: Thinking Strategically About Strategic Planning
• 7: Should We Proceed with the Strategic Planning Process?Part 2: Creating and Implementing Strategic Planning: Ten Key Steps; Step 1: Initiate and Agree on a Strategic Planning Process; Worksheets; 8: Plan the Planning Effort; 9: Strategic Planning Team Membership, Roles and Responsibilities, Reporting Relationships, Tasks, and Competencies; 10: Meeting Agenda; 11: Meeting Summary; 12: Meeting Evaluation; 13: Designing Learning Forums; 14: Strategic Planning Process Communications Plan; 15: Creating an Elevator Speech; Step 2: Clarify Organizational Mandates; Worksheets
• 16: Initial Compilation of Mandates17: Background for Group Discussion of Mandates; Step 3: Identify and Understand Stakeholders, Develop and Refine Mission and Values, and Consider Developing a Vision Sketch; Worksheets; 18: Stakeholder Identification; 19: External Stakeholder Analysis; 20: Internal Stakeholder Analysis; 21: Power Versus Interest Grid; 22: Key External Stakeholder Engagement; 23: Key Internal Stakeholder Engagement; 24: Mission Statement; 25: Values Statement; 26: Vision Sketch; Step 4: Assess the Environment to Identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Challenges
• Worksheets27: Internal Strengths; 28: Internal Weaknesses; 29: External Opportunities; 30: External Challenges (or Threats); 31: Competencies, Distinctive Competencies, and Distinctive Assets; Step 5: Identify and Frame Strategic Issues; Worksheets; 32: Individual Strategic Issue Identification; 33: Operational Versus Strategic Issues; 34: Master List of Key Strategic Issues; 35: Master Strategic Issue Statement; Step 6: Formulate Strategies to Manage the Issues; Worksheets; 36: Some Key Questions for Identifying Strategies; 37: Strategy Statement
• 38: Criteria for Evaluating Suggested Strategies39: Checklist for Contents of the Strategic Plan; Step 7: Review and Adopt the Strategic Plan; Worksheets; 40: Plan Review and Adoption Process; 41: Plan Evaluation; Step 8: Establish an Effective Organizational Vision for the Future; Worksheet; 42: Vision of Success; Step 9: Develop an Effective Implementation Process; Worksheets; 43: Evaluating Priorities for Existing Strategies, Programs, Products, Services, and Projects; 44: Evaluating Priorities for Proposed New Strategies, Programs, Products, Services, and Projects
• 45: Prioritizing Strategies, Programs, Products, Services, and Projects

Author/Creator:

Bryson, John M.

Contributors:

Alston, Farnum K.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations [by Bryson, J.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Creating Your Strategic Plan : A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations [by Bryson, J.M.] (Hoboken : Wiley,c2011 — ISBN 9780470405352)

Related Series:

Bryson on Strategic Planning

Subjects:

Nonprofit organizations - Management

Nonprofit organizations -- Management

Public administration

Strategic planning

General Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HD30.28

ISBNs:

9781118067253

OCLC Numbers:

1053117668

Other Control Numbers:

EBL697905 (source: AU-PeEL)
EBC697905 (source: MiAaPQ)