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New Quick Guide: "Advanced Strategic Planning-Strategic Planning that Works for Nonprofit Boards and Leaders"

New Quick Guide: "Advanced Strategic Planning-Strategic Planning that Works for Nonprofit Boards and Leaders".

6o pages of thought provoking strategies and templates that will facilitate strategic planning within your nonprofit organization, available immediately to download.

All nonprofit organizations have unlimited potential and possibility to become successful and thriving if they have conscious leaders who understand strategy and how to use it and manage it. Higher levels of conscious choice and intensity of awareness are the keys to creating a balanced integration of organization vision, strategy, risk and operational realities. Let go of what you thought strategic planning was, and embrace this new, innovative view of strategic planning that embeds strategy, innovation and risk throughout the organization in a way that is easy and quick.

This methodology for strategic planning has been tested with nonprofit Boards and leadership teams throughout the world, and has been described by many nonprofit CEOs as the most comprehensive yet easy process they have found.

Only US$45.00 available immediately to download


Contents

WHAT ARE "CHIEF EXECUTIVE QUICK GUIDES"

WHAT IS A STRATEGIC PLAN, REALLY?

Strategic Planning process
Four Key Components
Five Types of Strategic Focus

RESISTANCE TO STRATEGIC PLANNING
Key Questions regarding strategy and the strategic plan

FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING
STAGE 1- ESTABLISHING THE STRATEGIC FORESIGHT

Environmental Scanning
Key Questions regarding Environmental Scanning:
Causal Layered Analysis
Key Question about CLA:
Scenarios
Key Question to ask about Scenarios:
Wildcards & Cascading Discontinuity Sets
Key Question to ask about Wildcards
Backcasting
Value Systems

STAGE 2- CREATE THE PLANNING TEAM
Identifying who should be involved
Sample: Strategic Plan preparation checklist

STAGE 3- DEVELOP OR REAFFIRM THE VISION
Vision
Examples of Key Intents
Using Your Vision Statement Strategically
Key Intent Filter template

STAGE 4- APPLY THE SWOR ANALYSIS FILTER
How to conduct a SWOR Analysis
SWOR Analysis Example
The theory of filtering and its effect on setting strategies

STAGE 5- SET STRATEGIES AND REALITY CHECKS AGAINST SWOR
Selecting Strategies
Strategy/SWOR Impact Analysis

STAGE 6- DEVELOPING ACTION PLANS
Action Plans guaranteed to create action
Action Plan - Example

STAGE 7- HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENT YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN
Go Public, externally and internally
Strategic Plan as the Board Agenda
Annual Report
Board evaluation
Structuring committees and staff for implementation
Align staff Job Descriptions and Key Performance Indicators
Creating a strategic culture
Develop Conscious Strategic Questioning
Sample: Board Time Allocation Checklist
Example Board Meeting Agenda

STAGE 8- MEASURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN
Performance Measurement
Formal Annual Strategic review

CASCADING OPERATIONAL PLANS

SAMPLE FACILITATION DETAILS

Operational and Business Plan Facilitation

SUMMARY

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

MORE ABOUT THE2BOWMANS

Only US$45.00 available immediately to download


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