Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Author Information
John M. Bryson, Farnum K. AlstonProduct Details
ISBN: 9780470405352
Publish Date: 08/09/2011
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Number of pages: 288
Description
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.
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