Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Bryson on Strategic Planning) - Softcover

Bryson, John M.; Alston, Farnum K.

 
9780787901424: Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Bryson on Strategic Planning)

Synopsis

An updated companion to Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan is a step–by–step guide to strategic planning. This second edition is filled with useful tools, including illustrative examples, detailed questionnaires, and easy–to–understand worksheets. It takes users through every step of creating a tailored strategic plan, from concrete guidelines for brainstorming sessions, to developing show cards, to outlining a workshop equipment checklist.

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About the Author

JOHN M. BRYSON is a professor of planning and public affairs at Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. He is the author of the best–selling Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations (1988) and coauthor with Barbara C. Crosby of Leadership for the Common Good (1992), both from Jossey–Bass. FARNUM K. ALSTON is the founder and president of The Resources Company, an international consultant firm that specializes in strategic planning. He is a former deputy chief administrative officer of the City and County of San Francisco.

From the Back Cover

An updated companion to John M. Bryson′s Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, this useful workbook is a step–by–step guide to conducting strategic planning in public and nonprofit organizations. The second edition is filled with useful tools, including illustrative examples, detailed questionnaires, and easy–to–understand worksheets. It takes users through every step of creating a tailored strategic plan, from concrete guidelines for brainstorming sessions, to developing snow cards, to outlining a workshop equipment checklist.

From the Inside Flap

This hands–on workbook is designed to be used as a companion to John M. Bryson′s landmark book Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, now available in a thoroughly revised and updated second edition.Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan provides a step–by–step guide to conducting strategic planning in public and nonprofit organizations. The book is filled with illustrative examples and detailed questionnaires that take the reader through each phase of the planning process. Using easy–to–understand worksheets, Bryson and Alston provide clear instructions for creating a strategic plan tailored to the needs of the individual organization. In addition to the strategic planning worksheets the authors offer concrete guidelines for conducting brainstorming sessions and developing show cards as well as outlining a useful workshop equipment checklist.Using the Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan is a simple and easy way to heighten interest and broaden participation in strategic planning within any organization.

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