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“A Major Communication Tip For Successful Strategic Planning – Provide Definitions of Major Strategic Planning Terms As You Begin”
One of the key elements in any endeavor is clear communications. This is especially true when doing strategic planning. So, my major communication tip to ensure more successful strategic planning efforts is to first provide basic definitions of major terms used in the strategic planning process. Having written definitions to hand out to all participants at the start of the process will help ensure that everyone knows the meaning of the terms being used throughout the strategic planning process facilitates this. Here are the definitions of major strategic planning terms that have served me well in all of my strategic planning efforts over more than 25 years.

“The Top Ten Reasons Strategic Planning Meetings Fail, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”
Strategic planning is an awesome and powerful process that sometimes gets a bad rap because of some bad experiences people have had when engaging in some form of strategic planning meetings. Many times the combination of personal agendas, absence of open minds, and preconceived judgments about the strategic planning process can turn strategic planning meetings into real disasters. And frankly, there are many reasons why so many strategic planning meetings are unsuccessful. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach has developed a list of the top 10 reasons why strategic planning meetings fail. And the Top 10 Reasons are:
“Seven Reasons Why You Need A Strategic Planning Facilitator, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”
A professional facilitator brings an independent and open-minded perspective to your strategic planning process. He or she will keep the discussion focused, keep the process on track, and will encourage team members to act as equals in the process. Some organizations choose to “go it alone” and attempt to conduct the strategic planning process entirely “in house.” In my own personal and professional experiences over more than 35 years, I have always witnessed better outcomes of the strategic planning process when an outside professional facilitator is brought in. In fact, many of my clients come to me AFTER they have tried and failed at doing the process themselves. Here are seven reasons why it is recommended that you hire an outside facilitator.
Simple, Effective Planning
Business plans... you either love them or hate them. If you love your planning process it is because the process and investment produces results all year long. It keeps you and your team focused, it’s the basis for all significant decisions and everyone knows not only the master plan, but also their piece of it. If your past planning efforts have left you and your team frustrated, you are not alone, it happens far too frequently. The annual planning process does not have to be complicated and time-consuming. Here are some thoughts on how to make planning simple and effective in your company:
Simple Strategic Planning for the Independent Retailer
Strategic planning guides a retail organization towards those goals that will provide the stakeholders with the results that will encourage continued investment in the organization. The plan becomes the roadmap for the ongoing growth of the organization. An effective strategic planning process is a key management tool for insuring a vital, growing organization. As the planning process becomes part of the day to day activities of an organization, the results will become the fuel to maintain and improve the planning process.

Should you take a Homographic Approach to your Career Planning?
A Homo what?? Homographs are words that have two distinct meanings. For example: “It’s probably not appropriate if we appropriate their results” or “the august citizen will take office in August” or in the case of career planning, “his career ended after his car was seen to career into the telephone pole.”
Writing Business Strategy Plans
Build a Strategic Planning Team- engage a cross-functional planning team to represent each department's needs. Hold a kick-off meeting to set strategic planning goals, schedule meeting times, and get organized for the planning process. Introduce the Balanced Scorecard Approach- review and distribute our Research Note "Map Strategy with Balanced Scorecard" to provide a framework to work from. Develop a Strategic Planning Charter- use our Project Charter template to document the goals and objectives for the planning process, and set plan completion timelines. Document Strategic Planning GAPS- evaluate your current strategic planning process and add GAPS to our GAP Analysis Tool under the Strategy tab. You will be using this GAP Analysis Tool through the entire strategic planning process, so consider distributing this tool to the wh
What's Wrong With Your Corporate Planning Process?
Does your corporate strategic planning process consistently deliver the outcomes you expect or has strategic planning been devalued (literally or figuratively) within your organization due to its declining efficacy? Corporate planning in today’s rapidly-changing and uncertain business environment requires a strategic planning process that empowers organizations to achieve operational excellence on a day-to-day basis while also planning for the future. If your corporate planning process has lost its luster, consider what may be wrong.
Strategic Planning - Business Executive Essentials - Part 9 of 12
How do you assess your process for strategic planning and know if it is on track or as optimized as it might be? The analysis this week, and over the next three segments article series, should help you to objectively evaluate your planning process and identify potential issues and risks that may exist in your organization's current planning world. How would you answer these questions?
The Truth About Why So Many Strategic Plans Don’t Get Executed
Last week I was asked the question by a client prospect, “so how many retreats will we be doing as part of the strategic planning process?”. That got me to thinking about just how many of these retreats are probably happening in hotels across the U.S. this fall. Strategic planning retreats are a joke in terms of producing meaningful strategic plans, yet every year companies go through this ritualistic planning process. The problem is, virtually all of these so called strategy retreats provide very little value in terms of desired strategic planning outcomes.
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