Implementing and Sustaining Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations [Paperback]

Based on John Bryson's acclaimed comprehensive approach to strategic planning, the Implementing and Sustaining Your Strategic Plan workbook provides a step-by-step process, tools, techniques, and worksheets to help successfully implement, manage, and troubleshoot an organization's strategy over the long haul.

This new and immensely practical workbook helps organizations work through the typical challenges of leading implementation for sustained change. It spotlights the importance of effective leadership for long-term successful strategic plan implementation. The authors include a wealth of tools designed to help with goal and objective setting, budgeting, stakeholder analysis, prior- ity reconciliation, strategies in practice, special leadership roles, cultural changes, and more.

The workbook's conceptual framework, step-by-step process, and worksheets can be applied in a variety of ways. It can be used as a whole, or selected parts can be used by board members, boards of directors, senior management teams, implementation teams, and task forces on a regular basis throughout the process of sustained implementation. The workbook's individual worksheets, or combinations of worksheets, can be used as needed to address a variety of implementation-related tasks.

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

The Authors xix

PART 1 UNDERSTANDING IMPLEMENTATION AND?ASSESSING READINESS 1

Step 1 Understanding Implementation and Assessing Readiness 3

Worksheets

1 Interviewing People About the Upcoming Implementation Process 25

2 Implementation Readiness Assessment Questionnaire 32

3 Key Implementation Design Choices 44

PART 2 GETTING ORGANIZED 53

Step 2 Leading Implementation 55

Worksheets

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