Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations [Paperback]

Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan is the companion workbook to Bryson's landmark book, Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, a step-by-step guide to putting strategic planning into effect. Using revised, easy-to-understand worksheets, the authors provide clear instructions for creating a strategic plan tailored to the needs of the individual organization. With more material on stakeholder analysis, visioning, strategic issue identification, and implementation, this new edition is the best resource for taking leaders, managers, and students through every step of the strategic planning process.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 Benefi ts 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.<l1