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Strategic Planning Exercises – Two Types of Structure, One Works

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There are a couple of different ways to apply structure to strategic planning exercises : You can enforce using templates and forms participants have to complete so their answers are uniformed and structured. Productive Structure for Strategic Planning Exercises.

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7 Ways a Strategic Plan Becomes Disconnected from the Business

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In the interim, here are multiple articles to start going deeper into creating a well-connected strategic plan: 8 Questions to Ask Before Launching a Strategic Planning Process. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Vision Statement Impact. 4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive.

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12 Reasons Budget Meetings Aren’t Strategic and 3 Ways to Fix Them

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They are handled out of context strategically , looking at the business by department instead of by initiative. General managers and non-financial executives are placed in unfamiliar and poorly-performed accounting roles. Budget meetings are not integrated with strategic planning and business strategy.

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7 Strategic Planning Process Challenges You Can Fix!

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Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results! Related posts Strategic Planning Exercises – Have you tried a Zoomference yet?

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How a Strategic Planning Process Impacts Communication Options

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We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision. We instead used previous exposure, strategic thinking exercises with the IT team and others, and strategic business sense to describe what it seemed a corporate target would encompass.

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9 Big Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Addressing Now

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This time of year, preparing for upcoming strategic planning exercises may seem like something far in the future. Whether strategic planning is months away or close at hand, however, it’s always smart to get a head start tackling big strategic thinking questions that warrant in-depth consideration. – Mike Brown.

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Do you need Role Clarity?

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Role clarity is one of the most productive management exercises a team can engage in, so why it is so rarely used? I believe that one reason is that teams don’t have a tool to guide role clarity, so they don’t know how to engage in this type of exercise, and second, they don’t know when to it.