10 Steps to Successful Strategic Planning

Create a dynamic strategic plan, central to your organizations ability to make critical business decisions, with this step-by-step walk through the strategic planning process.

10 Steps to Successful Strategic Planning offers a simple 10 step process to assessing your priorities, organizing your goals, and getting your organization on the path to planned success. Loaded with worksheets, exercises, tips, tools, checklists, and other easy-to-use and interactive learning aids, this title guides you through the entire strategic planning process. 

Susan Barksdale and Teri Lund have worked together for more than 15 years providing businesses with consulting services and expertise in strategic planning, evaluation and performance improvement. The consultants are known for their practical approaches to improving business processes, performance and the bottom line, and have been praised for their ability to translate complex theory into easy-to-understand applications. They have worked to improve performance and strategy for many organizations including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Allstate Insurance, Wells Fargo, US Bank, The Capital Group Companies, TVA, ETHOS Development, Sun Microsystems, and Intelesoft Technologies.

Susan Barksdale has been a consultant to numerous large corporations for the last 23 years. Prior to this she managed training and consulting departments for two financial consulting firms. She holds both graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin. Before entering the performance improvement field in 1979 she was a psychotherapist at a major medical center and in private practice. Ms. Barksdale also taught a number of communication and behavior management courses at the University of Wisconsin-- Milwaukee.

Teri Lund has been an external consultant for the last 15 years before which time she held Management positions for Barclays Bank, Kaiser Permanente and Sealund and Associates. She has a Bachelors of Science degree in Education from Montana State University and a Masters in International Business and Finance degree from New York University. Ms. Lund has in-depth experience in project management, implementation of technological solutions and determining and measuring ROI.

Barksdale and Lund have been repeatedly selected or invited to present their work before international audiences at several performance improvement professional conferences and have been published in various periodicals.