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Making Strategic Planning Work Helpcard

Most strategic planning fails miserably. This card, and it's companion, How To Make Strategic Planning work will help you create dynamic strategic plans that are relevant.

The fate of strategic plans.
Even when strategic planning is completed successfully and yields a plan, the most common fate for those plans is that they end up in the back of desk drawers. Ignored and forgotten, with employees largely ignorant of the contents, all they do is gather dust.

Content
Written by consultant and and author Robert Bacal, Making Strategic Planning Work offers a number of suggestions to help you ensure your strategic plan becomes a dynamic document that can be used to make everyday decisions. If strategic planning is to be useful, it must result in an understanding of how strategic direction links to the everday decisions made by EVERYONE in the organization. This card teaches you the essentials of doing this.

In addition to these essential tactics, this card contains a complete diagram of the entire strategic + tactical planning process, so you can ensure that your planning process is complete.