Implementing and Sustaining Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations - Softcover

Bryson, John M.; Anderson, Sharon Roe; Alston, Farnum K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470872810 ISBN 13: 9780470872819

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

THE AUTHORS

John M. Bryson is the McKnight Presidential Professor of Planning and Public Affairs in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and in 2011 received the Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration for "outstanding contributions to the professional lit- erature of public administration over an extended scholarly career." He consults widely on strategic management with public, nonprofit, and business organizations in the United States and abroad.

Sharon Roe Anderson, cofounder of Aurora Consulting, is an experienced facilitator and consultant around issues related to strategic planning, team building, facilitation, nonprofit board governance, and implementation.

Farnum K. Alston is the founder of The Crescent Company and has worked on hundreds of strategic planning projects for public, business, and nonprofit organizations.

Review

offers a wealth of information and tips on how to cope with cultural changes, budgeting, strategic planning and more. (Charity Insight, June 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0470872810
• ISBN 13: 9780470872819
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320