Cate Gable

Strategic Action Planning Now Setting and Meeting Your Goals (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000117011
• Artikelnr.: 60311146

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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