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Strategic Planning
What Strategic Planning Needs To Be
How Master Planning Can Help
How Master Planning is Transformational
Getting Ready to Plan — The Readiness Assessment
Finding the Golden Opportunities
Getting Ready to Plan — The Readiness Assessment
It
is essential that senior management have an objective understanding of
the organization before beginning any kind of planning process. What are
the problem areas? How rigid are the silos? What's the most effective
way to communicate up and down the organization? How does staff (and management
themselves) feel about change?
To
answer these and other questions, organizations should conduct an assessment
to evaluate readiness for change and identify opportunities and challenges
that may affect the planning process.
Readiness assessments can include interviews, telephone or online surveys,
focus groups, analysis of member data and other formal and informal research
techniques. It is often good to use outside consultants to help with the
readiness assessment to maintain objectivity and credibility.
A good readiness assessment focuses on:
- Organizational alignment
- Team
culture
- Communication
- Employee
empowerment
- Change
readiness
This assessment can give senior management and the planning team a basic look at the organization's health. Then they can lay the final process track, keeping in mind what the assessment shows them.
Next:
Finding
the Golden Opportunities
Previous: How
Master Planning is Transformational
