How to Conduct an Effective Strategic Planning Process with Minimal Effort: What am I going to do for my annual leadership retreat? Part of the ... you already are!: Volume 1 (A COMPASS Book) - Tapa blanda

Thinking about conducting a strategic planning process? This book gives practical advice on how to make the strategic planning process effective so it gets results. Many recommended processes require gathering exhaustive data, scheduling numerous meetings and still lead to sub-par results. In this book you will learn how to get a comprehensive plan that is fully endorsed by your Board, leadership team, staff, volunteers and even external stakeholders. You will learn how you can spend a minimal effort and get world class results. Written by strategic planning expert Tracy Morgan, who shares her methods, tips and stories from more than twenty years of experience of strategic planning with hundreds of organizations. These organizations include large global nonprofits, entrepreneurial start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.

Tracy Morgan is an experienced executive dedicated to strategic planning, marketing, market research, organizational development, and financial analysis for organizations, including DuPont, the State of Delaware, General Electric, Saint-Gobain and Procter and Gamble. In recent years her focus has been on the execution of transformational changes. She also has extensive experience in niche market development, program implementation, and financial modeling. Her recent projects have been primarily in the nonprofit, chemical, health care, finance and IT industries. She is a certified network partner of SchellingPoint for work in the field of leadership alignment. Throughout her career, she has developed and implemented programs for organizations - large and small - that have reduced costs, conserved resources, improved quality, and increased revenues. She has developed, analyzed, presented, and implemented expansion, growth, or acquisition strategies for middle-market companies, Fortune 500 divisions, non-profits and alliances Tracy earned a chemical engineering degree from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University. She has published articles in industry journals and is a guest lecturer at business schools and conferences.