| High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning: Creative Techniques for Facilitating Your Organization's Planning Process |  | Authors: Rod Napier, Clint Sidle, Patrick Sanaghan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 273,901
Media: Ring-bound
Edition: 1
Pages: 424
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 10.6 x 2.4
ISBN: 0079137261
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4012
EAN: 9780079137265
ASIN: 0079137261
Publication Date: December 1, 1997
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Not just another book on the theory of strategic planning, here are dozens of recipes for creative group activities to facilitate strategic planning in any organization. Designed for use by consultants, facilitators, and management team leaders, step-by-step instructions guide you through exercises for gaining employee and management participation, gathering feedback from management about the current state of the organization, creating an organized mission, vison and values statement, and planning so that the vision becomes reality. Ready-to-use reproducible materials and handouts are also included.
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 Planning First - Learning Always August 13, 2001
Tom Clark (College Station, TX United States)
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
If you have ever been involved in a strategic planning effort that fell short of expectations then this book is for you. In plain language the authors lay out a planning framework with supporting involvement practices to gain organizational buy-in. They provide explanations and case study examples to show the connections between "what needs to be done and how to do it." A chapter titled "The Toolbox" covers the rational and procedures for involvement mechanisms that include "Nominal Group Process to generate ideas, Affinity Diagrams & Mindmaping to organize complex issues and Collapsing Consensus & Las Vegas Voting to help in problem solving & decision-making." There are valuable discussions on organizing the planning effort and post-planning followup / accountability. This volume supports any organizational effort to set goals, improve quality or enhance effectiveness in resource management through collaborative processes.
Outstanding "cook book" for change agents and leaders. August 26, 1998
R. B. Hewertson (Ithaca, NY)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book is fabulous! And I use it for much more than planning. The step by step "designs" are clear, flexible, and can be modified for nearly any audience. They can be layered upon each other for a variety of purposes. I have used this collection of great designs (which are easy to locate in the contents) many times with great success. The audience has varied from front line staff to senior leaders in education, business, and health care. The information in this book is so easy to read and follow that even a novice group facilitator could get it right by reading the introductions and the steps. There is NO other book on the market that has so much in such a useable format - And I've looked! It's really a bible for change agents who want fail safe designs that really excite and stimulate the audience as well as get the work done. This is a rare combination. The authors have managed to package a "1 Stop Shopping" tool kit, cook book, workbook, all in one 3 ring binder that is a living book you can add to as you find other things that work or as you modify a design to meet a group's needs. Simply irreplaceable and worth 2ce what it costs. I'll keep this book in front of me forever - it's already getting dog eared! Roxana Hewertson - Organizational Consultant and Change Partner -- Roxana Bahar Hewertson and Associates And Also-- Director of Administration Facilities and Campus Services Cornell University.
Highly useful tools September 25, 2000
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent resource for those involved in planning. In addition to the background and conceptual information provided in the book, the authors have included a variety of activities that can be employed to address specific objectives. There are numerous exercises with "easy to understand" instructions on how to facilitate the activities. I've used several of them recently and received excellent feedback about the process. More importantly, the outcomes were great!
Invaluable tools for Organizational Planning October 16, 2003
Joan Reilly Associate Director Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (Philadelphia, PA United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have had the opportunity to use the designs in this book over the past year. The designs or "strategic activities" are creative and guarnateed to advance the planning process for a wide range of organizations. The instructions have just the right amount of detail to adaquately prepare the facilitator. There is tremendous felxibility with each acitivity to accomodate longer or shorter amounts of time. The designs are
crip, imaginative, thoughtful, rooted in practice. Its a book I refer to again and again. Its been an invaluable tool to my work.
Best book I've read about planning June 22, 1998
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
What makes this book great is the authors ability to make planning understandable and INTERESTING! They offer many ideas on how to really involve people in the planning process. They provide lots of help, and explain things carefully. I have used two of the planning activities successfully and i am looking forward to using more. I have read a lot of planning books, this is the first one that got me excited
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