Strategic Action Planning Now Setting and Meeting Your Goals

New procedures for goal setting & team building Filling the need for a "how-to," step-by-step guide to strategic planning, Strategic Planning Action NOW! outlines team-based planning in four steps. Gate Gable's techniques provide detailed guidance into planning processes, strategic skills, recognition of challenges, consideration of goals, monitoring & measurement, & implementation tips to help the reader begin the planning process almost immediately. Written in three parts, the author provides exercises with each chapter. Part one covers the pre-planning stages, defining who & what your team is & what your teams' goals are. The second part goes over the actual planning, identifying the challenges & setting the goals for your team. The third & final part deals with post planning, implementation & evaluating your team's progress. WIth the trend for flatter organizational structures, more leaders are required not only to participate in the planning process, but to actually develop plans themselves. Many experienced planners toil endlessly over this process. They are in need of an easy guide for plan development & for more effective implementation, monitoring & measurement of their plans. This book is ideal for the current leader & for teaching Strategic Planning to the leaders of tomorrow.