Focusing Your Life: A Proven Personal Retreat Guide based on the

Formerly titled: Masterplanning

STRATEGIC PLANNING is an easy to understand step-by-step planning process. This proven book presents the same process our consulting team has refined in day-to-day consulting practice since 1976 to help clients develop their strategic plans.

STRATEGIC PLANNING is an easy to understand step-by-step planning process. This proven book presents the same process our consulting team has refined in day-to-day consulting practice since 1976 to help clients develop their strategic plans.

THE PROCESS HAS BEEN USED SUCCESSFULLY: From mom & pop organizations to those with a staff of thousands. From start-up budgets to hundreds of millions a year. From local churches to international organizations in over 100 countries. From small local churches (under 50) to large area churches (25,000+). From those with no business experience to Harvard MBA s

PREDICTABLE SYMPTOMS WITHOUT A STRATEGIC PLAN A Strategic Plan can be likened to a musical score for a symphony orchestra Unless everyone s on the same sheet of music, the result will not be pleasant to the ears. Without a Strategic Plan, expect the following:

DIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS (internal and external) will be foggy. FRUSTRATION, TENSION, and PRESSURE will develop because of differing assumptions. DECISION-MAKING will be POSTPONED because a FRAMEWORK will not be available for clear decisions. ENERGY and RESOURCES will be wasted because the basic system won t be clearly developed. FUNDING will be INADEQUATE because of a lack of consistent communication to the organization s constituency. <b?The ORGANIZATION will suffer because the creative energies will be spent putting out fires.

Bobb Biehl is an executive mentor. In 1976, he founded Masterplanning Group International. As its president, he has consulted personally with more than 400 clients. In that time he has met one-to-one with over 2,500 executives (board members, senior executives, and staff members) and spent an estimated 35,000 hours in private sessions with some of the finest leaders of our generation. His clients are primarily: 1. Large or fast growing churches 2. Non profit organizations 3. For profit corporations and 4. Government agencies. Based on these thousands of hours of practical "rubber-meets-the-runway" experience, he has originated 35 resources (books, tapes, notebooks) in the area of personal and organizational development.