- Ring-bound: 424 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; Lslf edition (1 Dec 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0079137261
- ISBN-13: 978-0079137265
- Product Dimensions: 29.3 x 26.9 x 5.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,412,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Get management and employee support for your organization's new strategic direction with these electrifying group activities. Strategic plans are successfully implemented only when the planning process itself engages every stakeholder and gives everyone a genuine sense of 'ownership' of the new organizational strategy. "High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning" offers you all the practical resources to generate that passionate involvement, with dozens of radical group Activities to help you facilitate the planning process for a team or an entire organization. This unique handbook for consultants, trainers, and managers brings you 40 creative, field-tested activities that jump-start strategic planning meetings, inspire new ways of thinking, and build the momentum critical to any change effort. Unlike most books on strategic planning, "High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning" gives you step-by-step instructions for targeted activities, to help an organization: kick off planning efforts that create energy, hope, and clarity of purpose; turn 'data gathering' from employees and management into a forum for open communication; clarify and create its core values, mission, and vision statements; monitor and assess planning efforts to ensure accountability; establish ongoing planning to allow proactive - not reactive - responses to changing environments and organizational priorities. Featuring case studies that detail how the book's activities galvanize planning efforts of various sizes and complexity, "High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning" enables you to pump new blood into even the most anemic planning process and build a greater sense of empowerment and commitment throughout an organization.
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Practical & collaborative activities that produce results
The key to effective planning is to meaningfully involve your organization's stakeholders in creating a shared picture of the future.This book shows you how to solve problems, build commitment and community. The activities described have been used successfuly in hundreds of organizations. We provide a balanced approach to planning that taps the resources in an organization and most importantly, creates the commitment to produce results.
The key to effective planning is to meaningfully involve your organization's stakeholders in creating a shared picture of the future.This book shows you how to solve problems, build commitment and community. The activities described have been used successfuly in hundreds of organizations. We provide a balanced approach to planning that taps the resources in an organization and most importantly, creates the commitment to produce results.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Ring-bound
I have been involved in a implementation for a year. The ideas in this book have been invaluable. We have involved over 2000 people in our project , and this book has been a major tool we have used successfully. Practical and interesting.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Ring-bound
Our experience shows that effective collaboration, systems thinking, stakeholder involvement, process design, and leadership are the critical success factors for strategic change. This book provides frameworks, activities, tips and tools to develop the shared ideas and committment necessary for immediate and lasting change.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Ring-bound
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.
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Well planned and half executed.
The stuff itself is great and the theory is sound. People do get fired up by interactive techniques. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2003 by ukkomustalainen
Very good resource
This book came recommended to me by another colleague. Interesting ideas throughout. .Participants feel that their voice is being heard and that something meaningful is being... Read more
Published on 29 Jun 1999
Just plain EXCELLENT!
Great resource for getting people involved. Lot's of interesting, practical and creative ideas. Our organization isn't used to doing things different, but we used the ideas from... Read more
Published on 26 May 1999
I used these ideas for our retreat and the ideas work!
I recently facillitated our organizational retreat and the ideas in this book were very helpful. We have a retreat 2x a year and they aren't very good. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 1999
A fascinating way to plan,you have made it interesting
I really like this book. Although this is a long book, it is well worth the effort. There arelgreat ideas, that you can use in a variety of ways. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 1999
A Creative Book on Planning !! Finally it's here!
What a pleasant surprise, a book on planning that is interesting and imaginative. The authors are great at explaining how to make planning interesting and involving. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 1999
This book shows you how to plan collaboratively. It's great
I have been involved in a long , complicated planning process for over a year. We were making little progress , with no buy in from the stake holders. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 1998
A practical and useful guide for managers and consultants!
Strategic planning is still a critical process for most organizations. If done properly, it identifies and determines how to manipulate the key variables that will drive... Read more
Published on 22 July 1998
Easy to read,interesting ideas,people love these activities
I really like this book. It shows how to get people to collaborate and be productive. I was involved in an interesting meeting over a month ago, and when I asked the facilitator... Read more
Published on 21 July 1998
Terrific, useable straight-forward approach.
I found this to be the BEST book on planning I have ever read (and I've read a lot). Useable, clear, takes the mystique out of the process; a very manageable and accessible... Read more
Published on 6 July 1998
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