Planning to Excel
Strategic Planning That Works
“Planning to Excel: Strategic Planning That Works” is a concise manual to guide leaders in developing a basic strategic plan that will be the roadmap for the organization’s success. Both a handbook and workbook, it presents the leader with a model that has been tested in many organizations over 20 years. Focused questions and insightful worksheets provide everything the organization’s leadership team needs to develop the components of a great strategic plan.
Detailing the difference between a Vision Statement and a Mission Statement, the book walks the leader through a simple process for creating them both, then continues with an efficient way to define values and goals. A section is dedicated to evaluating the organization’s culture and the effect that culture will have on the strategic planning process. Additionally, the book provides insight on how to set up a winning leadership team and how to get the most out of that team, even demonstrating that conflict is good in planning if the leader handles it correctly. Of course a strategic plan is useless if the organization doesn’t act on it, so “Planning to Excel” provides suggestions to communicate, implement and follow-up on the completed plan.
Follow the guidelines in this book and watch your organization excel!
